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This was good and I liked the Extormity humor as much as everyone else. I had a feeling it was those folks at No More Clipboard as at HIMSS in 2008 as I chatted with a guy from the company who was just enamored over Extormity and showed me the site and he was just too excited about it.(grin). ...
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Yup, you can’t get away from healthcare anywhere you go today and every year though CES has always had companies in booths with medical devices but the exception this year is that it is getting bigger. Continua is the wireless alliance for medical devices and put out there announcement this week...
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Tue, Jan 4 2011
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This is a unique story here but patient information via HIPAA needs to be protected and instead of transferring patient data right into a MDVIP data base, he could have taken another route and that would have been to have the patients use a PHR. Yes it is a little extra work but if patients would...
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Tue, Dec 7 2010
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As we have read this last year, health insurance companies though subsidiaries they have purchased are seeing this as a viable area to do business. With grants comes the next phase of finding a vendor to set up and provide such services and not all HIE vendors are owned by insurance companies by any...
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Tue, Dec 7 2010
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This guy could have saved himself some trouble if he just wanted the data and with Google Health he could have imported it, that is if Google Health was his personal health record of choice. Myself, I am very cautious of devices that do not go directly to a PHR as they are collected on the web...
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Fri, Dec 3 2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, Medical Devices, PHR, Google Health, Algorithms, applications, Fitbit, participatory Sensing, devices that report data
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Kinect is certainly popular and and recently I wrote about how it could work with electronic medical records and I’m sure we might see more on that level, but this individual had some fun and figured out how to create some virtual bras. It’s a fun video and like the music and these are male boobs...
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Thu, Nov 25 2010
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Filed under: Technology, Other Items of Interest, Need a Laugh, Microsoft/Windows News, microsoft, Medical Records, PHR, Windows, Java, Kinect, Evoluce, Gesture, Multi touh
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Yesterday I had the opportunity to attend the event as a blogger and had hoped to return again today for round 2 and some additional insight. I do have to say that the agenda is not at all like your normal convention and some of the brightest and intellectual individuals in Health IT were an attendance...
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Thu, Nov 4 2010
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If you have not heard about the new technology coming out for Xbox 360 it is Kinect and we are looking at the same with computers and according to what I read here, Microsoft will now have the intellectual property and the chip to make this come to life on PCs. The first thing that of course comes...
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Fri, Oct 29 2010
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Partnerships and alliances in healthcare are growing and we have seen a similar arrangement with Dell for one more example of a bundled support system of hardware and software and now HP and Quest Diagnostics enter the arena. Last year I had the opportunity to interview and talk to Rohit Nayak...
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Tue, Oct 5 2010
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These folks just worry me to death when it comes to Health IT knowledge and trying to appropriate money and pass laws where there’s either a very low level participation factor with general consumer health IT literacy or none? I watched the whole 2 hours back in January of 2009 and hopefully we...
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Mon, Sep 27 2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Medical Records, EHR, PHR, VA, Heatlh IT, Senate, DOD, consumers, participation, Rachel Maddow, non particiaption, PDF
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Ok remember a while back where I said stolen drugs could be located with Tags, well here we have a suggestion or an idea, a heat map from Bing. The products could be tagged by “lot” number and/or products. Obviously on a large scale we are looking at one grand “cloud” operation here. ...
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Wed, Sep 22 2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Microsoft/Windows News, My Commentaries, healthcare, microsoft, EHR, Surface, PHR, FDA, HealthVault, RFID, Heatlhcare, Safety, Microsoft Tags, Connected Conference, Heat Map, Bing
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We seem to be getting closer to the Nationwide Health Information Network becoming available for expansion with public use. As you can read at the link below this is up for discussion and would provide for a connection separate from the web in a sense to exchange healthcare information only. ...
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Tue, Sep 14 2010
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Occasionally I update news on this project but you may or may not be familiar with the NHIN. This is an initiative for the exchange of healthcare information under the direction of the ONC to bring together HIE (health information exchanges), pharmacies, lab, providers, payers and others in healthcare...
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Fri, Aug 27 2010
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Overall the company is trying to get the information out to those who may have been affected by the horrible fire near Palmdale that is still raging on, and the numbers of helpful by all means, but you can’t help not to miss the area where they are discussing “re-evaluating medical and dental policies...
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Sat, Jul 31 2010
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Back in April things were already stirring relative to to charges from hospitals and in Germany they can also opt for additional private health insurance as well as contributing to the government system. With the new increases the poor will be protected and their payments will be subsidized by...
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Tue, Jul 6 2010
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Filed under: Insurance, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, health insurance, EHR, medical billing, PHR, HealthVault, Medical Tourism, Heatlhcare, Politics, Patients, Cost, Germany, insurance agent, Dr Horst Kunhardt