-
It was just a couple months ago the company made this acquisition to grow the corporation and spent $800 Million, but as you can see when restructuring come in to play with algorithms for profit, this does not do much for those in areas to where growth is not anticipated. Medtronic Acquires Hypertension...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
by
The Medical Quack
on
Tue, Feb 22 2011
Filed under:
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, My Commentaries, EMR, EHR, Medtronic, Cardiology, PHR, HL7, software, cell phones, Sensors, Recalls, Implants, Doctors, Dashboard, Data, devices that report data, M-Link
-
The title says it all just about. The problem is that we have too many folks in area of making decisions without enough Health IT in their background . This is not to say they are not smart people because they are but not enough Hands On Health IT people. I do this blog every day and...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
by
The Medical Quack
on
Tue, Dec 28 2010
Filed under:
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, healthcare, Health IT, PHR, Hospitals, Personal Health Records, information, Data, collaboration, think tanks, ACO, CIOs, accountable care organzations
-
There may be some good ideas to come from such meetings, but the over all factor that drives everyone nuts is the technology itself. Just when you think you have a solution designed that will hold everyone at bay and have use for a period of time, there comes the next wave of technology and it...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
by
The Medical Quack
on
Wed, Dec 22 2010
Filed under:
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Medical Records, Health IT, PHR, Hospitals, Personal Health Records, information, Data, collaboration, Meaningful Use, think tanks, ONC, ACO, CIOs, accountable care organzations
-
Nowhere is this better exploding than in the area of Health IT. This is a good article that is basically stating “it is what it is” in terms of who and were IT Infrastructure lies according to today’s business trends and drive for profits. If in healthcare you have probably already experienced...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
by
The Medical Quack
on
Mon, Dec 20 2010
Filed under:
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, healthcare, Health IT, PHR, Hospitals, Personal Health Records, information, Outsourcing, Data, collaboration, think tanks, ACO, CIOs, accountable care organzations
-
Meaningful use in some area is a moving target to a degree even though we have goals outlined but again you can’t overlook the fact that new technologies arrive daily whether it is on the web or with mobile technologies. Sometimes the best made plans have to be re-evaluated almost daily. ...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
by
The Medical Quack
on
Thu, Dec 9 2010
Filed under:
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, healthcare, Health IT, PHR, Hospitals, Personal Health Records, information, Data, collaboration, think tanks, ACO, CIOs, accountable care organzations
-
A little background here on the Medical Quack is that I have been following PHRs since they began with HealthVault and Google Health and actually have a section on the blog with over 300 posts with many ‘how to’s” and a ton of information. What is very distressing though is on the internet I run...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
by
The Medical Quack
on
Thu, Dec 2 2010
Filed under:
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, Health IT, PHR, Google Health, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, Data, consumers, Non participants, ONC, RoundTable, Mapgie healthcare
-
Yesterday I had the opportunity to attend the event as a blogger and had hoped to return again today for round 2 and some additional insight. I do have to say that the agenda is not at all like your normal convention and some of the brightest and intellectual individuals in Health IT were an attendance...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
by
The Medical Quack
on
Thu, Nov 4 2010
Filed under:
Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Health IT, PHR, Hospitals, Personal Health Records, Epic, information, Data, collaboration, think tanks, ACO, Institute for Health Technology, CIOs, accountable care organzations
-
If you check in here once in a while you know there’s quite a bit about personal health records and HealthVault. I’m sure the video may be uploaded to YouTube soon so in the meantime I took a few screenshots of the highlights. First off by using the Blue Button the information goes to HealthVault...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
by
The Medical Quack
on
Sat, Oct 9 2010
Filed under:
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, EHR, Health IT, PHR, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, software, White House, Data, Surgeon General, consumers, Blue Button, digital consumer IT literacy
-
Biopharmaceutical companies will have a solution to assess risk and track information as submitted from patients, doctors, and pharmacies participating in various research project. The FDA with all submissions requires risk assessment and in short this is a software program to allow for those studies...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
by
The Medical Quack
on
Tue, Jul 27 2010
Filed under:
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Microsoft/Windows News, drugs, healthcare, microsoft, Investors, Medical Devices, Biotech, PHR, FDA, Pharmaceuticals, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, Safety, Research and Development, Amalga, Data, risk assessment, PPD
-
First there was HeatlhVault and now Estate Vault. I believe the Estate Vault has been around for a while and now is offering a hybrid type of product to work with consumers to help store and make personal health records available. There’s a financial twist added here with a prepaid MasterCard...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
by
The Medical Quack
on
Thu, Jul 22 2010
Filed under:
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, PHR, Security, Personal Health Records, Heatlh IT, Medical Tourism, Servers, Data, Virgin Islands, Estate Vault
-
Hoag Hospital in Orange County continues their hi tech efforts with bringing in personal health records in their expansion with medical record integration and aggregation. Those who live in Orange County have heard me state over and over to get started with a PHR and as you can see this is the...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
by
The Medical Quack
on
Mon, Jun 28 2010
Filed under:
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Hospital, PHR, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, integration, Orange County, Patients, Data, HIE, Hoag Hospital, aggregation, GoogleHealth
-
Dr. Halamka makes a great point here on structured data and the challenges of the analytics portion of the puzzle. Not too long ago I posed about mapping ICD codes to SNOMED and we had some what of the same ridiculous conclusion drawn which we all know is not really good here. Mapping ICD Codes...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
by
The Medical Quack
on
Fri, May 21 2010
Filed under:
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, healthcare, EHR, Health IT, PHR, ICD9, Diagnosis, Standards, Data, Algorithms, Treatment, queries, automation, data exchanges, definitions
-
Now with your cell phone connection,cardiac resynchronization therapy-defibrillator (CRT-D) or implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) are monitored through the CareLink Network. The cell phone connection is taking over with implants reporting data. I have done several posts over the...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
by
The Medical Quack
on
Thu, May 13 2010
Filed under:
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Windows Mobile, My Commentaries, EMR, EHR, Medtronic, Cardiology, PHR, HL7, software, cell phones, Sensors, Recalls, Implants, Doctors, Dashboard, Data, devices that report data, M-Link
-
First off I want to say thank you for the plug here and he might be right, I see all others talking about personal health records but I have not seen other bloggers and others putting a link on their site to make it easy to find Google Health or HealthVault, after all if you read about something and...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
by
The Medical Quack
on
Thu, May 6 2010
Filed under:
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, EHR, Health IT, PHR, Google Health, clinical trials, Patient, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, doctor, information, Data, Trialx, connections, results, Patient Ally
-
One of the better known PHR (personal health records) company is now announcing their data connection with an EHR system Sevocity. We are seeing more of this type of aggregation with data between PHRS and EHRS and of course this is the key to better patient records and care. They also provide...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
by
The Medical Quack
on
Thu, Apr 29 2010
Filed under:
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Medical Records, EHR, PHR, Personal Health Records, integration, Data, aggregation, No More Clipboard, Sevocity