So now one can order up and set up your time with a local lab, which is referenced on the site and in my area here it listed LabCorp locations as they are listed as a partner. This really is becoming a help yourself world when you need to order up your own and can even pay online. What else...
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on 10-23-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, Physician, healthcare, PHR, Patient, Personal Health Records, LabCorp, MIB, Lab testing, Patient Service Centers, Digital Lab Order
Video update on the progress of the patient in Germany who received a double arm transplant. Progress is being made and he can open doors now but still has a ways to go, imagine having arms after 6 years with none! BD A 54-year-old German farmer who lost his arms in an accident six years...
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on 10-13-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Hospital, Surgery, healthcare, Patient, Transplants, Double Arm Transplant, Graft, Germany
This is probably one of the sweetest subsidized arrangements with 60% of the cost being absorbed by the hospital, which is by the way one of the best in Orange County and I have worked on fundraisers for the hospital in the past. Doctors choosing ECW will have remote access using the application...
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on 10-07-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, EMR, Hospital, Medical Records, EHR, Patient, Orange County, Stark Law, Healtcare, Hoag Hospital, integrated healthcare, Eclinical Works
Medical Records and more integration in the chart, NextGen has recently entered in to an agreement to work with Zynx to bring this to the point of care level, in other words alerts and information incorporated with the EHR software to avoid wasting time with costly lookups in having to leave the window...
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on 10-01-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Medical Records, EHR, Patient, integration, smart charts, NextGen, peer to peer reviews, clinical decision support
This is something I mention quite frequently. Here's a site whereby e-Patients can now compare notes on how to be a good e-Patient. BD The person who has the most at stake when it comes to healthcare decisions-the patient-should be involved in research, advocacy and all segments...
I agree here with the context, with all the information that is flying at all of us at a speed of more than most of us can fathom half the time, how can a physician expect to keep on top of all of this as well? The mind is not as good as a computer for retaining information and when used as a ...
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on 07-18-2008
Filed under: Tablet PCs, Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, Physician, healthcare, Medical Records, Tablet PC, Patient
Medical Economics discusses the issue, and one comment I have to add on my own and one of my own personal pet peeves, is that people do not read. Anyone that has spent enough time around me will probably say that I am a broken record in this area, but it is so very true, and I’m not just talking...