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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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Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, PHR, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, Data Mining, Diagnosis, ER, distractions, primary MD, cyberchondria
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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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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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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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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Microsoft/Windows News, personalized medicine, Genomics, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, Biotech, R and D, Server 2008, Life Sciences, SharePoint, Windows Presentation Foundation, HPC Server 2008
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10,000 employees, family members or friends of employees of Scripps will be able to participate in the study, Affymetrix to Scan, Navigenics to interpret and offer life style guidance and the Microsoft HealthVault will be the place where participants can enter information and share it as they see fit...
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10-09-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Microsoft/Windows News, personalized medicine, Genomics, healthcare, microsoft, HealthVault, Amalga, DNA Testing, Navigenics, Scripps, Sequencing, Affymetrix, GeneChip
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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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Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, Silverlight, Pharma, Cook Medical, CMS, Heatlhcare, Catheters, hospital acquired infections, Server 2008, Never-Never, Sepsis, Thomas Jefferson University, Line Sepsis, Vanderbilt University
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With clinical trials becoming a bit more complicated, and with new processes of running genomic related reports during the time frame, it is getting to be a bit of a complicated issue, thus now there are services that will help find the appropriate candidates for the trials. No longer is it perhaps...
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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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Interesting video from Microsoft, Johnson and Johnson and the Discovery Channel on how health care will be in the not too distant future. I tripped out a bit on the toothbrush taking my pulse here, but as the video states, these are all thing either here now or in development. BD ...
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This is hot stuff! Recently I had an in depth interview with Dr. Patrice Milos, Chief Scientific Officer at Helicos discussing genomics and where the future is going. Helicos has the software and the genomics machine, and wouldn't this be a nice addition to run on Surface. This...
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08-27-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Microsoft/Windows News, Hospital, Genomics, healthcare, microsoft, Surface, Cardiology, Touch Screen, HIMMS, Surface Technology, Helicos, Heart Transplant, MSDN, Scripps, Healthblog
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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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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, McKesson, PHR, Personal Health Records, Healthvaut, RelayHealth
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One more step for integration with the Microsoft HealthVault. Using what is sometimes called middleware, Covisint is connecting both AT&T and the HealthVault. As mentioned below, electronic prescribing is included and this should also help bridge a gap to retrieve data from Home health...
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More news from Microsoft and partners on the HealthVault this week. About a month ago I posted on the new campaign aimed at consumers that is starting at the pharmacy level to promote e-Prescribing . Well that time is here as efforts are under way. I was at an practice this week and...
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06-10-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Microsoft/Windows News, My Commentaries, EMR, microsoft, EHR, Health Care, PHR, e-Prescriptions, HealthVault