Personalized Medicine will create many answers and solutions in healthcare, but will we have the money to afford it? I post quite a bit about genomics and personalized medicine on the blog here and the one thing it has in common with the rest of healthcare is cost. The success of personalized...
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on 11-14-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, personalized medicine, healthcare, Medical Records, FDA, integration, CMS, Leavitt
Sure Scripts has a wealth of information available and I have summarized a portion of some of the important facts here. You can also use .png?imgmax=800" width="197" height="126" alt="" /> the interactive map found here to see which pharmacies participate in your zip code or state area. Most...
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on 11-02-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, EMR, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, PHR, e-prescribing, FDA, Pharmacies, DEA, Sure Scripts, federal disasters, Emergency medicine, ICER.org
More additional affiliations for the FDA to gather information. In the news recently have been other agreements with companies such as Blue Cross and others who will be providing data to also study the effects of drugs through medical record information in their files, based on claims, etc. No...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 08-18-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, health insurance, healthcare IT, Pharma, Biotech, FDA, Medco, Pharmacogonomics
A couple weeks ago I had a couple posts referencing the partner ship with Anthem Blue Cross with utilizing their data bases for such a project as well...The new FDA white paper, titled "The Sentinel Initiative -- A National Strategy for Monitoring Medical Product Safety," ... totally amazing...
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on 05-22-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, My Commentaries, Genomics, healthcare, Health IT, Security, FDA, clinical trials, Medicare Part D, HL7, data bases