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Just last week in the UK, many hospital systems were shut down for the same type of activity. Also, now that the DOD is exchanging medical records with the VA, something else that is not needed there to complicate issues. The same response from the UK was presented by the Department of Defense...
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12-02-2008
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If you are one of many, well like all of us in the search for information relative to healthcare today, the self diagnosing trends are alive and well. With the wealth of information we have available, it is easy to do a little reading and self diagnose yourself with an entire multitude of diseases...
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11-30-2008
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ZDNet just wrote about Dr. Kolodner and his recent report which is good, but we need more than reports. I have been doing a whole lot here reporting on reports! Can we move forward as I think we have won the battle that PHRs are worth their weight here and get the show moving? You...
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11-25-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Microsoft/Windows News, My Commentaries, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, Health IT, PHR, Google Health, VA, personal heatlh records, Military Health Records, Department, mentors, education of Defense
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One of the messages coming from the meeting is that they believe they can learn from the mistake made in the US, and there were representatives from the US at the meeting. Karl Brown believes it might be easier to achieve interoperability in developing countries than in the U.S. or Europe. “You...
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11-24-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, EMR, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, Common User Interface, Interoperability, User Interface, Medical Software, Templates, ehealth, healthcare standards, Desmond Tutu
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You can even find Server 2008 on the site the Microsoft Store Site. You can even order mice, keyboards, etc. but those will need to be shipped obviously, so the days of DVDs and CDs do seem to be coming to a close. Obviously you want a high speed internet connection to download some...
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11-14-2008
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Filed under: Technology, Other Items of Interest, Microsoft/Windows News, microsoft, software, Server 2008, Office, Vista, Microsoft online store, downloads, Xbox
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Hard Hat Area: (This is for the hard core geek readers here) Updates this week from the Win Hec conference in Los Angeles, Windows Server 2008 R2 Updates, Hyper V and case study shown with a Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and their updates with Server 2008. BD Welcome...
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The program is designated for start up companies, and we have plenty of those in healthcare. You do need to qualify, but the website is pretty complete with instructions, information etc. You need to be in business for 3 years or less and have revenues of under a million, so that leaves...
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11-05-2008
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This will be available via Office Live, which I have used now for a while, for my website, email and I really like the synchronization of my email as with the Outlook connector, I have everything synchronized with my Outlook Office client on my desktops. I currently have everything connected, Calendar...
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10-28-2008
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Good interview from Robert Scoble and well worth listening to, he speaks about how healthcare is in a very fast pace, faster than what we have known in the past and about the shift to the consumer is evolving as far as taking care and accumulating your own personal health care records. People are...
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10-26-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, privacy, microsoft, Medical Records, PHR, Google Health, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, Economy, MIB, Health 2.0, Healthline
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This is interesting as yes the technology could make a waiter or waitress more in tune to your needs. I am guessing we might see this technology expanded as well to let individuals know when they have had too much too. We are getting so efficient at tending to our needs with technology that...
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Other hospital systems are working to catch up. Just in the news recently was the pilot exchange of information between the VA and Kaiser. Also the PHR, personal health records, from HealthVault will be due to come on line soon, so patients will be able to transfer the information to their...
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10-21-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, Physicians, PHR, HL7, VA, Hospitals, Kaiser Permanente, Patients, KP Health Connect, pilot program
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Dana Blankenhorn of ZDNet does a nice write up here on his visit to the physician and yes, us “geeks” find our way there too We are probably some of the most curious patients to arrive, as we are looking constantly to see what technology is being used in the medical offices, as it is a known fact...
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10-15-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Microsoft/Windows News, EMR, Hospital, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, McKesson, Common User Interface, HealthVault, integration, Amalga, Stark Law, NextGen, ZDNet Healthcare
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Words of wisdom and right to the heart of the matter. Below I have included a clip from the Wall Street Journal about President Bush signing a bill on protecting intelligent property, and what I found interesting is the mentioning of the fact that the coordinator for this was originally to be housed...
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10-14-2008
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The final version will be here tomorrow. More information from Microsoft can be found here. If you are a developer, you can reference some additional resources here for books, etc. The Common User Interface for medical records uses Silverlight and you can find additional...
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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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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, EMR, Physician, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, PHR, Google, Google Health, Telemedicine, HealthVault, consultations, SwiftMD