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Nobody wants a DUI for being under the influence, and especially during the holiday season coming up, but this physician went the limit as far as trying to explain how all that alcohol just happened to get in his system! He said it was the handwash! Good try but no dice here. There have been...
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If you are a participating physician, you just log on and wait for the patients to connect, pretty simple on that end. Health plans pay American Well a license fee per member to use the software, as well as a transaction fee of about $2 a patient each time a patient sees a doctor. This system...
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11-19-2008
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This is a little different and the next phase with using a PHR (personal health record) to bring patients and physicians together in working with chronic disease treatments and plans. The Cleveland Clinic will enroll 400 participants and their physicians and provide devices for the patients to...
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11-10-2008
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From the IT side of things, I can’t agree more with all the additional administrative functions that appear in today’s medical practice, as a few years ago when I was writing code and creating a medical records program, much of what I was doing was looking for ways to automate some of this, to free the...
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10-30-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, My Commentaries, Physician, healthcare, EHR, Health IT, PHR, Personal Health Records, software, Internet, insurers, administration, Red tape, information overlaod, IT partner
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Does Healthcare need Twitter? Well Twitter can sure use some additional healthcare folks. When I began using Twitter I didn’t give it much thought and actually didn’t know what the real purpose was of letting others know where you are or simply typing in an update. Well enter RSS feeds and...
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10-24-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, Physician, healthcare, Health IT, Twitter, FriendFeed, Health 2.0, Cancer Centers, Public Health, communication
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So now one can order up and set up your time with a local lab, which is referenced on the site and in my area here it listed LabCorp locations as they are listed as a partner. This really is becoming a help yourself world when you need to order up your own and can even pay online. What else...
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10-23-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, Physician, healthcare, PHR, Patient, Personal Health Records, LabCorp, MIB, Lab testing, Patient Service Centers, Digital Lab Order
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There are a couple sites listed here and now as medical records are on the move going digital, it could be a pre-requisite someday soon to have be certified to work with digital data. The certification process is open to all applicants, physicians, medical assistants, etc. There is a test and it...
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Good article at MRSA beyond the halls of the hospital. As he mentions, most do start there, but MRSA finds it’s way into other parts of society, like the tanning bed mentioned here I had a client who was treating a family who had the MRSA infection from one member being in the hospital, and...
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The service states that you are usually connected to a physician within 30 minutes of either a phone call or logging on to the computer to setup a consultation. Charges are $59.00 for a consult. You do need to establish an account before using the service. It requires that you fill...
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10-12-2008
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As a physician, if you haven’t been marketed yet, you might expect some marketing efforts forthcoming soon. In Florida the insurance companies are offering free e-prescribing and I might guess by going through a clearinghouse that this will go directly into the records of one’s medications with...
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09-22-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, Physician, healthcare, e-prescribing, HMO, e-Prescriptions, Generic Drugs, Patient, Pay for Performance
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It was just back in March that MediNotes purchased Bond technologies so the consolidation of technologies in the medical records business continues. Rebranding to take place in time and this will add to the portfolio of ambulatory EHR products as I am guessing the MediNotes component might have...
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09-19-2008
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I was speaking with a family practice physician this week on the east coast, and this is exactly what was said to me. We were discussing some technology items as it relates to health care and about how things are evolving. This physician has relied on both cash and PPO patients for quite...
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This is something in my conversations with physicians that keeps coming up, so I thought I would write up a post. On this blog I provide links to the $4.00 and other cost saving areas for anyone, insurance or no insurance to find the best cost on generic drugs and these are the heaviest hit links...
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If you want to do some reading up on the topic, this site may offer some help, along with the upcoming conference to be held here in the Los Angeles area in October. As posted recently there are plans for many of the service companies, such as 23andMe , Navigenics , DeCode, LabCorp , and perhaps...
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09-11-2008
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How much information is enough? It appears today that there's never enough to go around. Hopefully as the field of personalized medicine grows we will have more answers in the ability to predict and understand more about how different drugs work and what the projected outcomes will be...