Some issues are a result of still being paper driven as timely reports and real time information are not available, but they are not the only government agency in this scenario, only one of the most critical though. Also, some members of Congress don’t use computers either and felt uncomfortable...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-26-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, personalized medicine, healthcare, Medical Records, Pharma, FDA, Congress, integration, CMS, Leavitt
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
Hat's off to the Wall Street Journal for mentioning this. Great topic and I'm going to rant and bring a few more details of this entire issue to light here. As any readers of this blog know I am a tech person that work with medical professionals and others to bring this to light and...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 09-05-2008
Filed under: Tablet PCs, Medically Related, Technology, Windows Mobile, healthcare, Medical Records, Tablet PC, Google Health, FDA, clinical trials, HealthVault, Kaiser Permanente, Documentation
Recently the FDA announced it was going to use the Medicare data base in the effort to mine and help find adverse drug side effects as well as other pertinent data relative to the approval and warning process in place at the FDA. This is more than likely related to the latest technology updates...
This could be great news as how many times do medical records need to be anonymized for research, a lot. We all remember the case with the NHS and their mistake made a few months back with the records. This will be nice too if it is open source and I hope they send the software over...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 07-24-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, techonology, Medical Records, medicare, FDA, HIPAA, MIT, Anonymize
When you stop and think about it, this makes sense to be the “informed patient”. The less time a physician has to take and explain things to you, that you have already read about on the Internet, the more constructive time you will have . This really goes for any meeting done today, but...