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
Good article at MRSA beyond the halls of the hospital. As he mentions, most do start there, but MRSA finds it’s way into other parts of society, like the tanning bed mentioned here I had a client who was treating a family who had the MRSA infection from one member being in the hospital, and...
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
If you want to do some reading up on the topic, this site may offer some help, along with the upcoming conference to be held here in the Los Angeles area in October. As posted recently there are plans for many of the service companies, such as 23andMe , Navigenics , DeCode, LabCorp , and perhaps...
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on 09-11-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, My Commentaries, Physician, personalized medicine, Genomics, Cancer, Pharmacogenomics, Patients, Genonimic Testing, Human Genome Project, Genomic Counseling, Lab Tests
How much information is enough? It appears today that there's never enough to go around. Hopefully as the field of personalized medicine grows we will have more answers in the ability to predict and understand more about how different drugs work and what the projected outcomes will be...
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on 09-10-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Physician, personalized medicine, Medicine, healthcare, Merck, Byetta, Januvia
Not too many years ago I remembered hearing the term “hospitalist” and asked what’s that? The hospitalist has evolved and is now one of the top growing professions. With Pharmacogenomics, we might be on the verge of a new specialty, a “Longevity Doctor”. We already have a dwindling...
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on 07-20-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Physician, DNA, Genomics, healthcare, Pharmacogenomics, Medical School, Personalized Mediince