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Medical devices that report data continue to evolve. I do have to say that I never thought that I would hear plug and play with diabetes monitoring in the same device or sentence. You can find out more at the FAQ section and the device is both MAC and Windows compatible. The device can be...
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, FDA, Diabetes, software, Heatlhcare, Bayer, Computer, glucose monitoring, devices that report data, plug and play, Contour USB
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Many EHR and EMR programs already have this functionality built in and years ago I wrote one, so registries are nothing new but are valuable as the reports, with graphic and visuals give the MD or practice a snapshot view on their own statistics. This way they can see how many chronic illness patients...
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As mentioned before, Merck is heavy in cash resources and now is buying US firm Millipore. One other item of interest too is that we always think of Merck as a pharma company only, when in fact their chemical division has interests outside of the drug business, as stated in this article Merck is...
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We have probably all chuckled a bit as this being a way to go, but it doesn’t have to be as in Switzerland they are taking the matter seriously and ordering defibrillators to be on available at the brothels and sex clubs. A couple years ago in Orange County, California they made it the law where...
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02-28-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, Heart Attack, Heart, Heatlhcare, cardiac arrest, Switzerland, exercise, heart trouble, brothels, Defibrillators
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Here’s my equation for wireless – the data needs to go somewhere. If you are a regular reader here you have seen everything Eric Topol talks about and a lot more. What is cool is to see him wearing the stick on heart monitor. What we do lack here is knowledge and balance. ...
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02-24-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, healthcare, health insurance, Cell phone, Medical Devices, Personal Health Records, Heatlhcare, wireless, blue tooth, TED, Fitbit, devices that report data, biometric monitoring, Muve
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Hugo Ortega, a Microsoft MVP and Tablet PC fanatic like myself was traveling this week to include his annual trip to Microsoft and while on campus there he stumbled upon the Health/Lifestyle room for employees and staff, (of course they would have one of these). The first picture is a diabetes...
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02-22-2010
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Filed under: Tablet PCs, Medically Related, Technology, microsoft, Touchscreen, Blood Pressure, Diabetes, Heatlhcare, vital signs, Annual meeting, MVP
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This is the strangest story here and in reading it, the procedures for investigating were wrong. I look at the Sheriff who got a search order and went to confiscate the computers of the nurses from their home. Certainly it sounds like there’s unanswered questions on both sides of this story...
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The security breach this year was probably something I am guessing they can wish did not happen, nobody wants that and now the Attorney General of Connecticut is suing over the issue. Where’s the money coming from since they too are losing individual and employer accounts, Medicare Advantage policies...
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02-04-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, health insurance, HMO, Patient, Heatlhcare, UnitedHealthcare, Tri-Care, HealthNet, loss, reform, hopsital
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If you happened to miss the show last week, it’s embedded here from Dateline’s show. I watched it myself and they show some real life situations and have frank discussions with the interns, the long hours, the lack of much of social life. If you haven’t seen it yet, worth the watch. Most...
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02-03-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, Hospital, Surgery, Pediatrics, Heatlhcare, Stress, emergencies, Dateline, interns, Arkansas Children's Hospital
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I use RitePen software on my tablet and it makes it easier than having to locate the tip to enter data and there’s much more it can do. There’s a small learning curve as there is with any software, but you can take up the entire screen to write, do it sideways, you name it. There are also...
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02-03-2010
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Filed under: Tablet PCs, Medically Related, Technology, EMR, EHR, Heatlhcare, Inking, Microsoft Office, handwriting to text, RitePen, write anywhere, tablet enhancements, Citrix, data entry, prescrptions
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We have new entry into the body monitoring, behavioral information data arena, but unlike other that clip on, this one sticks on. I guess the closer the devices get the better the data? This one is not here the US, well yet anyway, but we have few others around . They all talk...
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02-03-2010
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If there enough said here with the public getting tired of hearing these stories of cancellations? The reason behind the cancellation or at least given by the insurance company was for a couple omissions of information on past history, a visit to the ER Room and one treatment. I don’t know...
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I have featured this video before here at the Quack and it is well worth another look on how the world of personalized medicine is growing, based on the PGP (Personal Genome Project) from it’s start to where we are with this knowledge today. George Church has a great partner in his wife too...
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01-31-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, personalized medicine, DNA, Genomics, Heatlhcare, Research and Development, Helicos, Algorithms, George Church, PGP, Halamka, Personal Genome Project, dislexia, Milos
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Wait a minute, don’t these same companies have business models to sell painkillers? As you can see pharma suggested more education, which is always a good thing and there has been talk along with one company submitting a reformulated version of a drug to the FDA for approval. Pharma no doubtedly...
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01-31-2010
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This is a large breakthrough in the fact that new drugs can be designed and perhaps less toxic to attack specific targets. As mentioned this study will appear in PLos Genetics journal. Look at the computing power here, as the article states results were analyzed more than a billion times...
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01-28-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, personalized medicine, DNA, Genomics, healthcare, Oncology, Genomes, Heatlhcare, NIH, Research and Development, brain cancer, UCLA Jonsson Cancer Center