Healthcare and the way it is practices has certainly changed over the last few years, no doubt about it. Technology though is not the reason to blame in it’s entirety though, it’s the other stuff that goes along with others initializing technology and software benefits that hits below the belt...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-18-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, healthcare, Medical Records, medicare, Congress, Medicaid, software, Patient Advocacy, Health Insuance, Point of Care, Physician Overload
A qualified system is not faxing! Many offices who are set up with an EMR or EHR are already covered and are either set up and ready to go or have the capabilities. For those who are not, there’s a permanent link on this page to NEPSI, the free e-prescribing initiative where you can sign...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-31-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, healthcare, medicare, health insurance, Physicians, Prescriptions, e-prescribing
Good points made here, but they left out one thing, technology and it’s improper use can kill you too. I would almost guess we could go as high as around 50% to find many of the errors stemmed right here. I love technology and what it does, but there are those who don’t and those that resist...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-14-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, healthcare, microsoft, medicare, Physicians, Common User Interface, Hospitals, Server 2008, Never-Never, Sepsis, Vanderbilt University, Errors, Human Audit Trail, Patient deaths
With the new “never-never” provisions of Medicare and insurers now not paying for procedures that entail errors, like leaving an instrument or sponge inside a patient, products such as this one are sure to pick up some momentum, wave the magic wand over the area of the body to see if anything is left...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-08-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Hospital, Surgery, medicare, RFID, Safety, Never-Never, surgical sponges
Through the program, all Medicare billing information will be populated in to a Personal Health Record. Where does this leave Google Health and the HealthVault? Can they participate? The key to the whole program is to pre-populate the information so the consumer has very little...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 08-11-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, healthcare, Medical Records, medicare, PHR, Google Health, HealthVault, Medicare contractor