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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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Some issues are a result of still being paper driven as timely reports and real time information are not available, but they are not the only government agency in this scenario, only one of the most critical though. Also, some members of Congress don’t use computers either and felt uncomfortable...
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11-26-2008
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They have established a coding vocabulary for genetic test results called CBO, or Clinical Bioinformatics Ontology . Genetic test results are associated with the concepts from the CBO, whereas a traditional observation like a pulse or blood pressure might be associated with a SNOMED (Systematized...
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There’s probably no bigger fan of PHRs than yours truly here, but where’s the awareness and out reach here, it doesn’t exist. The technology is out there, but what good is it if nobody uses it or realizes the value. Consumers, much less doctors and clinical staff all over have not a clue...
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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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It has been a while since I updated some of the vendors that you can import in to your online health records. First of all there is Walgreens .png?imgmax=800" width="129" align="right" alt="" /> and Longs Drugs. You can import your drug records right in to Google Health. The best deal...
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10-24-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Medical Records, PHR, Google Health, e-prescribing, Longs Drugs, Allscripts, Walgreen, personal health record, Minute Clinic, Healthcre
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The group has grown in 7 years from five people focused on healthcare worldwide at Microsoft; now there are more than 700. This group is for responsible primarily for the enterprise space (in biopharma and medical devices), so these are the largest customers in the U.S. I have provided a...
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10-09-2008
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In this interview article McKesson discusses visualization and showing the physicians the information they that need to know at the point of decision making at the point of care. The EHR will have to support genetic knowledge. They are working with Proventys to create an integrated product...
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10-09-2008
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As this begins the week of the “Never-Never” rules with Medicare and with Sepsis being included on the hospital acquired listings, the group is calling for standards to prevent, which includes the use of minocycline and rifampin impregnated catheters. Severe sepsis is common, with over 750...
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10-03-2008
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It is interesting in the last few weeks, since the 2% increase in payments for those physicians who use e-prescribing is getting close about the number of inquiries I have received about “how do I do this”. I have had the link for NEPSI on this site under resources for over 2 years, but now that...
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09-18-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, Medical Records, PHR, Google Health, Quest Labs, Personal Health Records, NEPSI, Free e-prescribing
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A picture is worth 1000 words. I have recently had some conversations with health care clinicians, administrators, etc. about the Personal health records of Google and Microsoft Health Vault and this shows clearly how Beth Israel Deaconess has integrated the system with their own internal system...
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09-03-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, PHR, Personal Health Records, Kaiser Permanente, integration, Hosptial, Healthvaut, Beth Israel Deaconess of Boston
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Recently the FDA announced it was going to use the Medicare data base in the effort to mine and help find adverse drug side effects as well as other pertinent data relative to the approval and warning process in place at the FDA. This is more than likely related to the latest technology updates...
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Many of the Tenet hospitals are McKesson Clients. The Relay Health network will be able to connect to the patient’s file “The RelayHealth network then connects the consumer's portfolio of information with the care provider and unifies the management of the personal health...
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07-24-2008
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If you haven’t heard enough about e-Prescribing this week, well here’s more, and potentially good news from the DEA. Last month I had referenced an article from Paul Levy and he mentioned a test pilot program that was in place, so hopefully the pilot program has had some good results, as the article...