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  • Google Opens Doors to Knol – Online Encyclopedia - Open for Contributions...

    If you are familiar with Wikipedia , Knol will be no problem to understand and work with.  There are a few changes though with authors not being anonymous with their entries as is the case with Wikipedia.  They would like real names, but that is an option.   Readers can also request changes...
    Posted to The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck on 07-23-2008
    Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Health Care, Google, Google Health, Encyclopedia
  • Health Care: Sick And Getting Sicker

      According to Forbes, the HMO business and stocks are sick.  Also, we still have President Bush stating he’s still going to veto the Medicare bill that was passed this week, why?  The bill is veto-proof, so what’s the point?  Let’s just make this difficult situation a little more...
    Posted to The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck on 07-12-2008
    Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, medicare, Health Care, Congress, Physician Pay Cuts
  • Choices for Migraines – Medical Device, Drug or both?

    Last week I posted about a new potential migraine zapper , a medical device in research that could use electronic shocks to kill a migraine.  New research here shows a new method of a nasal injection is proving to be effective as the combination offered is faster according to the study reports than...
    Posted to The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck on 06-30-2008
    Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Health Care, Medical Devices, Headache, Migraines
  • Medtronic Announces First Clinical Data on Occipital Nerve Stimulation for Chronic Migraine to Be Presented at American Headache Society Meeting

    More news about headache relief.  Yesterday there was a study from Canada about a portable machine that zaps headaches too .   It appears to be a growing demand toward electro therapy in many area of health care today versus taking a pill.  Some are implanted while some are used externally...
    Posted to The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck on 06-27-2008
    Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Health Care, Medical Devices
  • U.S. Health Insurers Look To China For Growth

    They say the Chinese market is complicated, well what do we have here, same thing.   Well Point and UnitedHealthCare have already made some inroads as well.  The article states they are taking some of the same principles used in the US over there, well good luck as our system can’t get any...
    Posted to The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck on 06-25-2008
    Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, health insurance, Health Care
  • Gender can cost you in individual health insurance

    One item to note is that the California Department of Insurance said there are no regulations in place to prevent this, and Blue Shield is perhaps not the only carrier with gender specific costs.  It’s all about cracking the numbers is appears, but what will be the next step?  We have all the...
    Posted to The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck on 06-21-2008
    Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Health Care
  • Costs Crimp Adoption of Electronic Health Records

    Well the battle is over as far as electronic medical records being beneficial.   Cost has always been an issue, but even more so now.  At the HIMMS annual convention this year I did an interview and was asked the exact same question, what is taking so long, same answer, cost and money.  ...
    Posted to The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck on 06-18-2008
    Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Hospital, Medical Records, Health Care, software, integration
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