I watched part of the video, not all as it is several hours long and you might want to watch for yourself. The site requires Real Player to view the video. Dr Halamka makes a great presentation and everyone called him “the jet”, thus the title above. In speaking he addresses many topics...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 12-02-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, healthcare, Medical Records, medicare, EHR, CIO, Health IT, e-prescribing, Medicaid, integration, Beth Israel Deaconess of Boston, CCHIT, personal health record, PHR Pilot program, PHRs
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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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
This story about Walgreens illustrates a little bit of both. After the economy and Wall Street news of the last couple of weeks, we should know now about how programmers set algorithms to select, process and deliver data. Need a refresher, you can check here relative to Wall Street out coding...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-01-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, My Commentaries, drugs, healthcare, Prescriptions, Medicaid, Medications, Medicare contractor, Whistle Blower, Data, Data Base, Algorithms
Recently with all the discussion on catheters and hospital acquired infections, I had the opportunity to conduct an interview with Thomas Cherry from Cook Medical to find out a little bit more on the topic. As mentioned in the interview, CMS is imposing some new rules starting in October that pretty...
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on 08-06-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, medicare, Cook Medical, Medicaid, CMS, HAI, Catheters, hospital acquired infection, imprenated catheters, CRBSI