ZDNet just wrote about Dr. Kolodner and his recent report which is good, but we need more than reports. I have been doing a whole lot here reporting on reports! Can we move forward as I think we have won the battle that PHRs are worth their weight here and get the show moving? You...
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on 11-25-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Microsoft/Windows News, My Commentaries, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, Health IT, PHR, Google Health, VA, personal heatlh records, Military Health Records, Department, mentors, education of Defense
These are a couple posts from last month. What is interesting is the difference of the dollar amounts here, $65 million more for a procedure for cats and dogs. Any money and donations of course are appreciated, but could the good doctor being relaying a message here? His announcement...
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on 11-21-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Grants, R and D, sterilization, X-Pr5ize, healthcare for pets
This is a great post, and something I was going to write about as well, but the author here has saved me some time and covers the point well, just how distracted are we, a lot. Right now we have some very serious issues going on in the US, but in my small travels, I seem to find many that are just...
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on 11-20-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, priorities, Media, Focus, Awareness, Heroes
This very extensive article examines various hospitals in Massachusetts and the cost of the same procedures at different hospitals, and then continues further to discuss how this happens; contracts with the insurers and the ability to use “branding” to command a higher rate, all the big centers do it...
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on 11-16-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, Physicians, Hospitals, bankruptcy, Balance Billing, Transparancy, Debt consolidation, Vendors, Hosptials
Every blogger, myself included has written about the upcoming shortage of physicians, well this is predicated on better healthcare, but as we are seeing from the downturn in the economy, people are not going to the doctor to take care of their health, it is still a “risk management world” out there,...
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on 10-30-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Physicians, Primary Care, Patients, Risk Management, information overlaod
Your DNA will be tested for GRK3 and two of its genetic variations and yes you receive a “spit kit” for your deposit. The site also states the test is only available for those individuals showing symptoms, so if you are not in that category, the test is not for you. I would also think that...
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on 10-30-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, Genomics, Depression, DNA Testing, serotonin, bipolar, antidepresants, psychiatry
This interview from Charlie Roses touches on many items and Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus adds what he has been able to accomplish in his part of the world in Bangladesh and how some of those principles can be applied here, coming together of both sides, different minds, different ideas that can...
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on 10-28-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Biotech, Cancer, Pharmaceuticals, R and D, Economy, Banking, Milken Institute, Mahammed Yunus, Milken, Charlie Rose