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A high-level perspective on select key challenges and opportunities in the healthcare space. I had the opportunity today to speak at the Open Science Summit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA; the meeting featured a [...] Read More...
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Sun, Oct 23 2011
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I made this comment on Twitter and actually had a couple medical record companies agree with me, making the point that yes they as well as almost everyone else out there at some point in time has put out some “buggy” software. Let’s face it we want to get the doctors to move up the ladder to electronic...
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Fri, Feb 25 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, Training, medicare, Health IT, Education, PHR, Personal Health Records, pilot program, Magpie Healthcare, value, Non participants, PHR Choice
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The approval process too has been hit by economics. Due to the money needed to be spent for FDA approval, some companies simply don’t have the money to go through the approval process, depending on how long, trials, etc. are required. Device companies in the US are finding that approvals in Europe...
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Mon, Feb 14 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, healthcare, Social Networks, Medical Devices, Venture Capitalists, Money, Investments, Budget, Algorithms, Europe, value, balance, jobs
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This is a great article and in the New York Times today and it has been broken down to show the overall mathematics that are used to determine payments. We are again, back to the “A” word that you see plastered in the center of this blog, an algorithm. I just finished watching a PBS documentary...
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Fri, Nov 26 2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, Medicine, medicare, medical billing, Congress, Hospitals, CMS, Doctors, Patients, Pricing, Algorithms, formulas, value, payments, MedPac
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This technology is going to be everywhere and this is nice that we have students using cell phones to scan for valued information here too. It enhances the program and gives the students instant information, like what I have been advocating for FDA Recalls and have a bunch deaf ears in that department...
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Fri, Nov 5 2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, microsoft, FDA, cell phones, obesity, Scanning, children, value, mobile technology, Microsoft Tags, exercise, Playworld, ENERGI
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This is very cool and Bar Coding with Smart Phones is the way of the future to get information quickly. As you can see from the screenshots, this makes it very easy to donate money to a good cause, fighting breast cancer. They are using a technology called QR Codes and if you read here often...
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Mon, Sep 20 2010
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Filed under: Tablet PCs, Medically Related, Technology, Health IT, Personal Health Records, Slate Tablet, American Cancer Society, paradigms, value, Non participants, Goober, participant, Tablet Computer, IPad, Microsoft Tags healthcare, QR Codes
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When as a patient you are sick, do you care about whether you are a right or left winger, I would venture to say most of us put that on the back burner when needing care. Here we go again, one more OMG story and Mr. Gingrich is at it again and lack of consumer IT literacy is sticking out once more...
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Sun, Sep 19 2010
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This article from the BBC is brilliance in my opinion as it goes along with what I somewhat preach and that is finding “value”. In today’s world there’s a lot of struggle going with “value” in many areas and healthcare in my opinion is right up there at the top of the ladder. I believe I...
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Sun, Aug 22 2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, My Commentaries, Hospital, Cell phone, Heatlh IT, software, Economy, Study, Algorithms, value, ROI, Congressman, hospital cleaners, hospital workers
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Yes this is the state where I grew up and sometimes they don’t move too fast on some items and this is one of them with not seeing the “value” in becoming participants where technology can help. Prisoners are moved around at times and with only paper records, some law suits are claiming inmates...
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Tue, May 11 2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, Lawsuits, Arizona, value, Non participants, tech denial, Maricopa County, jail, inmates
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Being a Tablet PC user from the day they were released many years ago it’s interesting to see how it has evolved. I reference the term “goober” as that is how I was seen years ago. I had one hospital CEO that literally used to “run for the hills” when I showed up with my tablet. It was funny...
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Fri, Apr 2 2010
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Filed under: Tablet PCs, Technology, healthcare, Intel, Slate Tablet, Humor, HIMMS, paradigms, value, Colbert Report, Non participants, Goober, participant, Tablet Computer, IPad
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Once more, that’s the problem with all these folks, they don’t participate. Everyone in Health IT can see it and we make posts such as this one on blogs to discuss it. If he really wanted to learn about Health IT, it would behoove him to visit the Garfield Center at Kaiser, he would learn...
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Wed, Jan 20 2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, EHR, Health IT, Education, PHR, Hospitals, Politics, e-Patient, Grassley, value, heatlhcare reform, change, 70s
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I dearly love all this talk about Tablet PCs and those who know the value are the users and participants. We have log of “Magpies” here too, those who just talk about it and are afraid to break the paradigms of the keyboard. As everyone knows I have been an avid user for years, why, because...
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Fri, Jan 8 2010
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Filed under: Tablet PCs, Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Intel, Slate Tablet, HIMMS, paradigms, value, Non participants, Goober, participant, Tablet Computer