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...
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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...
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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...
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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. ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Sat, Oct 9 2010
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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...
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Tue, Jul 27 2010
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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...
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Fri, May 21 2010
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How does it feel to be in a trial? This video touches on some of the good and bad and the communication between the patient and the site. Dan talks about documentation that might be missing, like missing some adverse affects of the drug in the trial. He makes a good point that as a site manager...
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Fri, Apr 23 2010
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The government in the UK is looking at cost as well and the anticipated cost of expanding the data facilities of the NHS. This report states they should scrap it, but I don’t think that would be the entire answer either, but adding the ability to have their own PHR would certainly help. The...
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Tue, Jun 30 2009
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