There’s probably no bigger fan of PHRs than yours truly here, but where’s the awareness and out reach here, it doesn’t exist. The technology is out there, but what good is it if nobody uses it or realizes the value. Consumers, much less doctors and clinical staff all over have not a clue...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-13-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, Education, PHR, Google Health, Personal Health Records, Microsoft HealthVault
Good interview from Robert Scoble and well worth listening to, he speaks about how healthcare is in a very fast pace, faster than what we have known in the past and about the shift to the consumer is evolving as far as taking care and accumulating your own personal health care records. People are...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-26-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, privacy, microsoft, Medical Records, PHR, Google Health, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, Economy, MIB, Health 2.0, Healthline
The group has grown in 7 years from five people focused on healthcare worldwide at Microsoft; now there are more than 700. This group is for responsible primarily for the enterprise space (in biopharma and medical devices), so these are the largest customers in the U.S. I have provided a...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-09-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Microsoft/Windows News, personalized medicine, Genomics, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, Biotech, R and D, Server 2008, Life Sciences, SharePoint, Windows Presentation Foundation, HPC Server 2008
10,000 employees, family members or friends of employees of Scripps will be able to participate in the study, Affymetrix to Scan, Navigenics to interpret and offer life style guidance and the Microsoft HealthVault will be the place where participants can enter information and share it as they see fit...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-09-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Microsoft/Windows News, personalized medicine, Genomics, healthcare, microsoft, HealthVault, Amalga, DNA Testing, Navigenics, Scripps, Sequencing, Affymetrix, GeneChip
As this begins the week of the “Never-Never” rules with Medicare and with Sepsis being included on the hospital acquired listings, the group is calling for standards to prevent, which includes the use of minocycline and rifampin impregnated catheters. Severe sepsis is common, with over 750...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-03-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, Silverlight, Pharma, Cook Medical, CMS, Heatlhcare, Catheters, hospital acquired infections, Server 2008, Never-Never, Sepsis, Thomas Jefferson University, Line Sepsis, Vanderbilt University
With clinical trials becoming a bit more complicated, and with new processes of running genomic related reports during the time frame, it is getting to be a bit of a complicated issue, thus now there are services that will help find the appropriate candidates for the trials. No longer is it perhaps...
A picture is worth 1000 words. I have recently had some conversations with health care clinicians, administrators, etc. about the Personal health records of Google and Microsoft Health Vault and this shows clearly how Beth Israel Deaconess has integrated the system with their own internal system...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 09-03-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, PHR, Personal Health Records, Kaiser Permanente, integration, Hosptial, Healthvaut, Beth Israel Deaconess of Boston