The comment below from a vendor is interesting, as he comments on the fact that a physician can make an extra $125,000 in 5 years, well some family care practice doctors today in California would like to just be making that in one year, as all the recent contracts with insurance companies are getting...
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on 10-01-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, EMR, Hospital, Medicine, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, Common User Interface, Charity, CMS, Linux, Donations, bankruptcies
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
How important is Web 2.0 in health care? There’s an international conference coming up in September to meet and discuss this very topic. More information at the official site. The who should attend list suggests Academics health professionals, social scientists, computer scientists...
This is one long, but very good video that explains Personalized Medicine from the ground up. If you want the basic understanding on how this is and will be working, listen up. Take time when you have the time to watch. This was done by UC-TV, University of California Television and...
The treatments are delivered with just one 360 degree rotation, the machine moves around the patient. It is also helpful for those patients who have a hard time lying still for long time increments. The time spent by patients for treatment is dramatically decreased. This could in time...
If you have not read up yet on personalized medicine this is a great article that will go through the basics in layman's terms...there are 4 links below to each section...and the last area is the toughest...the challenges as it will all be work in progress for quite a while to come...so somebody...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 05-24-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, Labs, personalized medicine, Medicine, DNA, Biotech, healthcare providers, Advocates
Well one more rating game...drugs...we can currently rate hospitals, doctors, so here's the latest addition...read the article for links to the sites for participation...the one list nobody wants to make of course is Worstpills.org , catchy name...BD Now Health Grades, already an arbiter of hospitals...