Let’s put it another way, it can’t exist without IT. Again it all comes back to running algorithms to obtain desired results. As I have mentioned before, Algorithms is one of the hottest words right now in healthcare as we all make decisions from queried results. A while back I had the opportunity...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-25-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, EMR, personalized medicine, DNA, Genomics, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, Health IT, Biotech, Pharmacogenomics, Helicos, Sequencing
Dana Blankenhorn of ZDNet does a nice write up here on his visit to the physician and yes, us “geeks” find our way there too We are probably some of the most curious patients to arrive, as we are looking constantly to see what technology is being used in the medical offices, as it is a known fact...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-15-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Microsoft/Windows News, EMR, Hospital, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, McKesson, Common User Interface, HealthVault, integration, Amalga, Stark Law, NextGen, ZDNet Healthcare
This week the Congress meeting is in Boston. I referenced in a earlier post that PHR's, (personal health records) are being viewed by Healthcare leadership as the favorite vehicle for interoperability. There is a podcast at the link below. There was a full line up of guest speakers...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 07-23-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Microsoft/Windows News, EMR, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, Microsoft Healthcare, PHR, Interoperability
A couple months ago I made mention of this to a few and nobody took it seriously, and yet here today, somebody’s talking about it! After the announcement of the program in the works for the NHS, I bounced this off a couple physicians, and they did agree, it sure would be simple to have one common...