Just last week in the UK, many hospital systems were shut down for the same type of activity. Also, now that the DOD is exchanging medical records with the VA, something else that is not needed there to complicate issues. The same response from the UK was presented by the Department of Defense...
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on 12-02-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, Health IT, Security, DOD, malware, computer virus, antigen
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
This might have a bit to say about the IT departments, or the antiquated equipment in place, but with all the large profits being made by health insurers I would guess the have invested heavily as they have with all their reporting services and claim algorithms for calculating claims and approvals for...
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on 11-20-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, Computers, health insurance, Health IT, Cigna, Lawsuits, United HealthCare
Does Healthcare need Twitter? Well Twitter can sure use some additional healthcare folks. When I began using Twitter I didn’t give it much thought and actually didn’t know what the real purpose was of letting others know where you are or simply typing in an update. Well enter RSS feeds and...
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on 10-24-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, Physician, healthcare, Health IT, Twitter, FriendFeed, Health 2.0, Cancer Centers, Public Health, communication
When this technology came out, there were many questions about privacy, and the chip needs to have a facility with a “chip reader” as well, so to get everything going it does take some coordination. In the meantime, the PHR movement is moving quickly in some real positive directions as there is...
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on 10-24-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Medical Records, Health IT, PHR, Google, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, Kaiser Permanente, Kiosk, Health, Emergency Room, ER, Verichip
The conference is being held later this year, and April certainly can bear a little bit better weather for Chicago than February. “ Keep your schedule on track for HIMSS09 in Chicago from April 4-8, 2009. The 2009 Annual HIMSS Conference & Exhibition comes just 5 weeks later than last year's...
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on 10-22-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Health IT, Physicians, PHR, Hospitals, Personal Health Records, Medical Errors, HIMMS, Informed Patient, Quaid Foundation, Patient Rights, Dennis Quaid
Words of wisdom and right to the heart of the matter. Below I have included a clip from the Wall Street Journal about President Bush signing a bill on protecting intelligent property, and what I found interesting is the mentioning of the fact that the coordinator for this was originally to be housed...
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on 10-14-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, microsoft, Health IT, Congress, software, Wall Street, White House, Algorithms, Geeks, Laws, formulas, Warren Buffett, Department of Justice, Intelligent Property, Sofware