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The video speaks of where stem cell research is currently in the US and revisits the big breakthrough from a couple years ago when skin cells could be used instead of the actual embryo for research. That discovery rapidly set things on fire for research in so many areas. Mentioned in the...
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Hard hat area: The state project is aligned with the federal NHIN standards. Last month 15 organizations received grants to begin electronically sending Social Security disability claims via the National Health Information Network. As I understand the California infrastructure would...
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This is just an overall “nice” story. I know as I have a mother who is a senior and the computer is a big connection for her to the outside world. She doesn’t have Windows 7 and a touchscreen, but even without the new hardware and software it is a huge companion for her. The article mentions...
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This makes perfect sense since tablet pcs are already in use at Pfizer. I’m a big One Note fan myself and the article here states that users are basically jumping in on their own. At Microsoft OneNote has almost passed up Power Point too. Sharing with OneNote is great too with SharePoint...
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03-16-2010
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If you didn’t know better, you might guess there’s something else going on in the picture here. This system is more expensive than one that use finger tip scanning, but they were luck with a grant and were able to put the system into operation. As is mentioned, biometric check in systems...
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03-15-2010
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Here’s more bad news for the company with an expensive recall. In addition to “stent wars” the company also participates in this highly competitive area. Just last year the company received approval for a new stent, so I guess when they are not in court with J and J over “legally patented...
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Do you want safety or a lane to get a product to market rapidly? This is what the FDA is looking at. Not too long ago it was in the news that the NIH and others were looking to improve upon the “fast track” time to get products approved faster. You can’t have it both ways! It...
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The old paper records keep showing up in new places, this time in the trash at a fast food building. I said this a while back and I think it still holds true, we some public shredders please! Public Shredders Please! Medical Record Dumping On the Rise We Need Public Shredders – More Paper...
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As mentioned in prior posts, is Plavix a good candidate for personalized medicine, since it is a blood thinner. Right now with the new warning, it is basically telling you that it might not work for you so with a test perhaps the guess work someday could be eliminated. FDA To look at benefits...
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03-12-2010
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Does the average person care about how many seats one party or the other has, I don’t really think so as that does not impact their day to day life very much but does the average American think about healthcare reform, you bet. If you think it makes a difference on whether or not you “like” a Congress...
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I first posted about the project back in September of 2008 and CMS is now extending the pilot program. You can view the demo pages here that show the various screens available for the patients. What is nice is to be able to search Medicare claims to see what is being processed and what...
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The Happy Hospitalist blog tells of his own experience in getting records from Walter Reed Hospital, and as you can see, it’s a long time. He’s treating a patient who had surgery there 3 years ago and needs the information to provide a treatment plan for the hospital. This is very good work...
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Personally from doing this blog it doesn’t appear to me that we have a shortage in the development area, but where the issues lie is in standards and bringing some of this to a better collaborative effort. You do NOT want to rush the programmers of the software for the sake of having a product...
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03-10-2010
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If you check in here often enough you have probably seen information about Cook Medical and last year I had the opportunity to talk with a representative of Cook to find out more about how it works. We discussed hernia repair for the most part and covered a few other areas. Regenerative Medicine...
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This company has been in the news for a couple years now and if you haven’t followed this company as far as development, politics, the FDA and more, it has a little bit of everything. Even with biotech drugs getting approved today, it’s all about the software that combines the efforts of the drug...
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