If you are one of many, well like all of us in the search for information relative to healthcare today, the self diagnosing trends are alive and well. With the wealth of information we have available, it is easy to do a little reading and self diagnose yourself with an entire multitude of diseases...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-30-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, PHR, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, Data Mining, Diagnosis, ER, distractions, primary MD, cyberchondria
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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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
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
I spend quite a bit of time here posting about new developments and yes I have both a Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault account, I do comparisons, etc. I see many very prolific bloggers and journalists talking about PHRs too, but something that pops into mind here, do they have one? It sure...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-20-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Medical Records, medicare, PHR, Google Health, Clincal Trials, Personal Health Records, Health 2.0, Microsoft HealthVault
For the Stark law to apply to allow hospitals to subsidize medical records for physicians, the software needs to be certified. Epic systems is probably best known for being the system used by Kaiser through out their networks of hospitals and clinics. Yesterday I had posted about PHRs also...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-12-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, EHR, PHR, Personal Health Records, Kaiser Permanente, integration, CMS, Epic, CCHIT, Stark Law
Here are a few additional posts that have been posted by Fox and Reuters this week. There are several more published over the last few weeks, but here’s a few of the highlights for this week. The AARP story was the same post as featured on the Wall Street Journal. Senator opens investigation...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-06-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, PHR, Google Health, AARP, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, eprescribing, Medical Quack, NEPSI, Reuters, Fox News, DNA technology
This is a great abstract discussing electronic medical records. Dr. Tim Sturgill, an emergency room physician put this together, as the emergency room MD would be at the top of the list to want credible patient records, as some patients may only be seen once at the facility, especially if traveling...
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on 11-03-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, EMR, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, PHR, personal heatlh records, health cloud
I will once more mention a potential change of paradigms here with educating the public. Each patient who took the drug is unique. Do we have any information on other drugs they were taking at the same time? Groups will continue to advise against the use until the full facts are known...
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on 10-31-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, drugs, healthcare, Pharma, PHR, FDA, Marketing, paradigms, personal heatlh records