Many reporters have contacted me for an IT perspective on the April 15 bombings in Boston. Within moments of the event, social media became the preferred mechanism for communication and coordination. I was on a plane from Los Angeles to Boston at 36,000 feet when the bombs exploded and received real...
Tweet • These lethal brain cancers depend on cholesterol for growth.• Laboratory findings identified a tumor survival pathway.• Glioblastoma is one of the most untreatable cancers. PHILADELPHIA — Glioblastoma is among the most...
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I try to keep some updates on what’s happening at the ONC created REC centers across the US and everyone is a little different being they are a private enterprise coordinating to help physicians and medical businesses with converting and setting up electronic medical records. Below are a couple...
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Two men were cleaning the inside of a 4 foot tank that is used to hold blood plasma and were overcome by ethanol . Ethanol is used to separate extract blood plasma. The man who did called 911 when he found the other 2 men unconscious the fire department stated. This is a case for an...
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This is the last place one would look for a gift shop but there’s one here in Los Angeles. They have shirts, bottles of body fluids, beach towels, etc. I guess the shirts could say I was in the LA morgue and survived? This is perhaps one more way to keep budget losses down to a minimum...
This is a brand new are of the medical school and will be developed to be a world class center in the Los Angeles area. The focus here is the patient, education and disease monitoring. Each patient receives a personalized treatment plan and children are as well as adults are welcome...
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Tue, Oct 5 2010
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This is pretty wild where the former entire board resigned and a new board was created. The school trains physicians to work in under served minority communities. The school has been around for 44 years and is not expected to make loan and insurance payments on the $43 million borrowed to build...
It just so happens the next World Medical Tourism Conference is up and coming and it’s kind of interesting too as there’s another convention of insurance companies that takes place at the same hotel at the same time as the Tourism Conference. I noticed that last year when I attended for a day. ...
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Tue, Aug 31 2010
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Last year I attended and did a short interview with Microsoft and the CEO of Bumrungrad hospital and then spent the rest of the day learning and talking to many of the attendees and I learned a lot. You can read what I gathered up last year at the link below. I do have to say this was an entire...
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The card has been around for a while and the City has determined that part of the problem with little participation was due to the fact that is has not been promoted enough so this week a new effort will begin. I did a quick check for the name brand Plavix and it’s still a high ticket item at ...
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Mon, Aug 30 2010
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This week it was education in the news and we have the same thing in Healthcare too with the announcement of the most expensive public school slated to open in Los Angeles. This facility is not alone and there are other such examples in the country. Our governor was right up front about his...
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Thu, Aug 26 2010
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This is no doubt a good solution overall but the elimination of the entire department is not going to happen as a few employees need to be there to intervene. The only problem with such a system is keeping the 3d parties out the door so additional transactions are not added for profit . We...
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This an interesting stimulus story as it’s doing good putting people to work and getting training, but on the other hand so many hospitals are laying off too? Perhaps the layoffs have stabilized for now and at any rate it can’t hurt to have some free training and get started in a new direction...
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Mon, Jul 19 2010
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This is somewhat breaking news here as the progress of watching in real time is amazing. According to the press release the activity was watched so if you can imagine what this can do with follow up to see if and how much progress is made with tumors. In the words of the release below, some...
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Mon, Jul 12 2010
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