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This is just an overall “nice” story. I know as I have a mother who is a senior and the computer is a big connection for her to the outside world. She doesn’t have Windows 7 and a touchscreen, but even without the new hardware and software it is a huge companion for her. The article mentions...
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03-17-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, Seniors, Windows7, Selfhelp Community Services, Department for the Aging, telecommunication, virtual senior center
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Ok I don’t think I am ready for this one, as the power of suggestion could be too strong for me here:) I certainly would not want to self diagnose when it comes to mental illness and I think over all that this is a human to human area, but if you want to take a test, here it is. I get a little...
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This was a survey taken before the big consumer electronics show in Hanover, Germany started. I guess this could mean some potential sales for the folks at PositiveID who manufacture the chip and the software that now allows reporting to personal health records. I’m not ready for a chip yet...
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This is a smart move to create additional algorithmic formulas to analyze labs along with medications being taken. For a simple example I am estimating based on a particular lab result, certain drugs would not be advisable treatment and on the other side of the coin labs may be needed to combine...
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03-04-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, healthcare, microsoft, EHR, Health IT, PHR, Google Health, HL7, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, MedPlus, Lab Results, Informed Patient, Quest Diagnostics, Surescripts
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This is not to say that systems need to conform and have certain interoperability formats to provide physicians with a tool where they are not “taken” on their investment, but it’s been spoken many times that the insurers are the ones that benefit more than the doctors. What we seem to be missing...
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03-03-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, microsoft, health insurance, Business Intelligence, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, AMA, software, Fraud, Certification, Algorithms, United HealthCare, payers, Oracle, Ingenix, Dell, Medical Banking, ONC
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My very first meeting with a vendor at HIMSS was with NoMoreClipboard. I’d known of them for quite a while, but never really took them seriously before. After meeting with them, I was really impressed with what they’re trying to do in the...
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03-02-2010
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Filed under: HealthCare IT, EMR, EHR, EMR Vendors, PHR, HealthVault, google health, Interfaces, Electronic Health Record, Electronic Medical Record, NoMoreClipboard, Microsoft HealthVault
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I first posted about the project back November of 2008 and now we are beginning to see some numbers result. The Epic records system used by Cleveland Clinic connects to Microsoft HeatlhVault and thus the patients have the flexibility of adding information via HealthVault and sending it to MyChart...
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The Medical Quack
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03-01-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, Medical Devices, PHR, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, Cleveland Clinic, Document management, E-faxing, Epic Medical Records, truck driver, MyChart
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There’s a lot of information coming from HIMMS today and Quest Diagnostics is offering 90 Day trials on some of their web based products. Last year I had the opportunity to talk with Rohit Nayak, Vice President of Sales with MedPlus and he was able to fill me in on what was to come, including the...
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The Medical Quack
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03-01-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, microsoft, EHR, Health IT, PHR, HL7, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, MedPlus, Lab Results, Informed Patient, Quest Diagnostics
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HealthVault Personal Health Records and SharePoint Server will be getting much better acquainted in the 3rd quarter this year. As you can read in the press release below, HealthVault is expanding it’s capabilities and the ability to further integrate and provide interoperability for patients with...
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The Medical Quack
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03-01-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, EMR, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, PHR, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, HealthIT, HIMMS, Eclipsys, Sunrise Pharmacy Software, Sunrise Enterprise, SharePoint Server
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If you are attending the HIMMS convention, here’s some of what you can expect to see at the Microsoft booth(s), which is always busy. If you want to read up about how Amalga is working in healthcare, here’s a link below to an interview I did last year with Steve Shihadeh. You can always search this blog...
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The Medical Quack
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02-26-2010
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Filed under: Tablet PCs, Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, Health IT, Surface, PHR, Mobility, HealthVault, HIMMS, Amalga
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In case you need a little refreshing from the past, this company was formerly named VeriChip, the implanted chip people. You can see from a fairly recent post below that their “implanted chip” now talks with Google Health and HealthVault. The iGlucose system has it owns PHR and will be able...
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The Medical Quack
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02-26-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, health insurance, Medical Devices, PHR, Google Health, Diabetes, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, Glucose, breathing, PositiveID, devices that report data, IGlucose, FIS
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Earlier this year, TriZetto was purchased by Apax Partners, a London based private equity firm for 1.4 billion so somebody wants a return on their investment somewhere along this line. They also have a large agreement in the Netherlands for processing claims and other financial interests. ...
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The Medical Quack
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02-24-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, microsoft, PHR, Claims, Business Intelligence, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, payers, Ingenix, healthcare cost, EOB, Trizetto, reimburements
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Ok when is the last time you have seen this many fingers on a Surface computer, and these all belong to Microsoft MVPs at that showing off multi touch. It recognizes fingers and Tags. See below for more on Tags. Through this video we get to see some interesting sides of Surface...
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The Medical Quack
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02-18-2010
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Filed under: Tablet PCs, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, Medical Devices, Surface, PHR, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, Document management, surface computing, Microsoft Tags
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A few months ago I wrote about CareMore in southern California investing in business intelligence claim and cost software services and now we have another in northern California. Companies as such are making a ton of money with providing software that evaluates and presents business models...
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The Medical Quack
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02-06-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, PHR, Business Intelligence, HealthVault, Algorithms, United HealthCare, Profits, Ingenix, Trizetto, CCHP, claim processing, stock holders
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As more reports on radiation overdose make it to the news, this appears to be an issue that needs some software attention , not only with the manufacturers but also a tracking system as a back up. If it is missed at the hospital or facility level, a new data base complete with algorithmic formulas...
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The Medical Quack
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02-01-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, EHR, Health IT, Radiology, Google, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, software, Health, CT Scan, NIH, Audit Trails, radiation, Radiation overdose