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UnitedHealth Creates Personal Health Records With Online Health Venture

One more entry into the the PHR system, but the one big issue here for me at least, is that I would be very reluctant to place all my records with a company in the business of risk management, thus I prefer Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault, as...

Published Mon, Dec 12 2008 2:59 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, PHR, Google Health, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, Data Mining, Diagnosis, United HealthCare, ER, distractions, primary MD

Computer technology can cut into personalized patient care with complexity and complicated user interfaces

This article offers some very good insight here and I’ll add my 2 cents worth as well. We all know that documentation, no matter what kinds it is, paper or electronic is mandatory to good healthcare, but technology creates it own set of new issues...

Published Sun, Nov 11 2008 3:01 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, EMR, microsoft, Medical Records, patient care, EHR, Common User Interface, User Interface, Medical Software, Templates, data input

Mapping brain cancer to find best treatment – Personalized Medicine

A piano player gives up his job, goes to medical school and now has and R and D project with clinical trials for brain cancer. He also works with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's Allen Brain Institute who has healthy brain statistical information...

Published Sun, Nov 11 2008 12:09 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, personalized medicine, Genomics, microsoft, Cancer, brain cancer, mapping

What is Cyberchondria and Who Has it?

If you are one of many, well like all of us in the search for information relative to healthcare today, the self diagnosing trends are alive and well. With the wealth of information we have available, it is easy to do a little reading and self diagnose...

Published Sun, Nov 11 2008 11:22 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, PHR, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, Data Mining, Diagnosis, ER, distractions, primary MD, cyberchondria

Personalized medicine will rely on IT – It’s all about Software

Let’s put it another way, it can’t exist without IT. Again it all comes back to running algorithms to obtain desired results. As I have mentioned before, Algorithms is one of the hottest words right now in healthcare as we all make decisions...

Published Tue, Nov 11 2008 10:54 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, EMR, personalized medicine, DNA, Genomics, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, Health IT, Biotech, Pharmacogenomics, Helicos, Sequencing

Are electronic and personal health records inevitable? – Sure they are but we need education and mentors to make it work!

ZDNet just wrote about Dr. Kolodner and his recent report which is good, but we need more than reports. I have been doing a whole lot here reporting on reports! Can we move forward as I think we have won the battle that PHRs are worth their...

Published Tue, Nov 11 2008 3:26 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Microsoft/Windows News, My Commentaries, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, Health IT, PHR, Google Health, VA, personal heatlh records, Military Health Records, Department, mentors, education of Defense

Department of Defense and VA to migrate health records

This is interesting, which one will prevail? AHLTA has some nice dictation already built in with Dragon Naturally Speaking and this might be an area where the VISTA system will need some work a far as which one will prevail, but at any rate the...

Published Tue, Nov 11 2008 2:41 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, Health IT, PHR, Google Health, VA, Department of Defense, personal heatlh records, Military Health Records

Desmond Tutu Presents e-Health Call to Action – Learn from the mistakes of the US

One of the messages coming from the meeting is that they believe they can learn from the mistake made in the US, and there were representatives from the US at the meeting. Karl Brown believes it might be easier to achieve interoperability in developing...

Published Mon, Nov 11 2008 11:04 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, EMR, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, Common User Interface, Interoperability, User Interface, Medical Software, Templates, ehealth, healthcare standards, Desmond Tutu

NYC Mom Sues Hospital After Losing Both Hands and Feet – Infection lead to Sepsis

Sepsis is a systemic inflammatory response to infection which can progress to circulatory system dysfunction, multiple organ failure, and eventually death. Severe sepsis is common, with over 750,000 cases diagnosed in the United States each...

Published Sun, Nov 11 2008 11:40 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Hospital, healthcare, microsoft, Law Suit, Server 2008, Sepsis, Vanderbilt University, amputation, kidney infection, New York hospital, acquired diseases

Healthcare in Japan Today

Dr. Crounse from the Microsoft Health Blog shares some information about healthcare in Japan. I had also heard about the measuring of the employee waists somewhere else along the line and if you get too fat you’re employer is in trouble with the...

Published Sun, Nov 11 2008 3:25 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, PHR, Google Health, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, obesity, Japan

Implantable VeriChip and Microsoft HealthVault PHR link information

Not too long ago I had stated that online personal health records may be the best way to go, and now VeriChip has also partnered with the HealthVault. When you have an implanted chip, you are able to go on line and update your information, this...

Published Fri, Nov 11 2008 4:55 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, PHR, HealthVault, RFID, Verichip, personal heatlh records

I’m a Tablet PC - Video

Being the avid tablet fan I am, I couldn’t resist this one! Pay attention to the woman who writes music, I have used that program myself and my music is terrible (grin). BD “All the ‘I’m a PC’ commercials inspired some people at WIPTE...

Published Thu, Nov 11 2008 7:41 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Tablet PCs, Technology, microsoft, Tablet PC

Common User Interface – Update and walk through video

Another updated video on the interface, again it would be nice to have the same visuals at every hospital and perhaps doctor’s offices with the existing programs still running in the background, only the user interface would need to change. This...

Published Wed, Nov 11 2008 5:07 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, EMR, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, Common User Interface, HHS, User Interface, Medical Software, Templates

Microsoft Releases New Robot-Building Software

Do you want to build a robot for use in healthcare, well here’s some software that might be of help. Also from the website, check out the RoboChamps Urban Challenge, very similar to DARPA’s Urban Challenge, the creation and use to Autonomous Cars...

Published Wed, Nov 11 2008 2:03 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Robotics, Hospitals, software, LAC+USC Medical Center, USC Medical School, robots

Why Use a PHR – Because It is there and it stands to help decrease medical errors

We all long for the day that all practices and hospitals can transmit medical records and talk to each other, but as we all know it is not there yet and will continue to evolve, and add on today’s economic crisis, something that is already slowing down...

Published Sun, Nov 11 2008 1:52 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, Health IT, PHR, Google Health, VA, Department of Defense, personal heatlh records, Military Health Records

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