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
As a physician, if you haven’t been marketed yet, you might expect some marketing efforts forthcoming soon. In Florida the insurance companies are offering free e-prescribing and I might guess by going through a clearinghouse that this will go directly into the records of one’s medications with...
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on 09-22-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, Physician, healthcare, e-prescribing, HMO, e-Prescriptions, Generic Drugs, Patient, Pay for Performance
I was speaking with a family practice physician this week on the east coast, and this is exactly what was said to me. We were discussing some technology items as it relates to health care and about how things are evolving. This physician has relied on both cash and PPO patients for quite...
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on 09-19-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, Physician, healthcare, HMO, Patient, Family Practice, Medical Office Space
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...
The “Informed patient” did his homework and found a solution -he found the “Informed MD” or neurosurgeon in this case. What are “Informed Patients looking for these days, the “Informed MD”. So far, after the procedure, he’s happy. It doesn’t hurt today to be “read up” both from the...