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  • EHR Adoption Remains Off in the Distance – Getting way to complicated

    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...
    Posted to The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck 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
  • Diabetes Information drug battles

    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...
    Posted to The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck on 09-10-2008
    Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Physician, personalized medicine, Medicine, healthcare, Merck, Byetta, Januvia
  • Medicine 2.0 Conference – Web 2.0 for Health and Medicine

      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...
    Posted to The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck on 07-06-2008
    Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Medicine, healthcare, Web2.0, Medical 2.0
  • Personalized Medicine: Drugs Tailored to your Genetic Makeup Video from University of California

    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...
    Posted to The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck on 07-05-2008
    Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Genetics, Medicine, DNA, drugs, healthcare, UCSF, Health
  • Decatur Memorial Hospital Becomes First In Illinois To Treat Cancer Patients With RapidArc" Radiotherapy Technology

    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...
    Posted to The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck on 06-18-2008
    Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Medicine, Medical Devices, Cancer, Oncology, Prostate Cancer
  • Personalized Medicine Coalition (PMC) - personalized medicine 101

    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...
    Posted to 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
  • Rate a Pill - the Latest in the Medical Rating Game..

    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...
    Posted to The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck on 05-14-2008
    Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Medicine, medical, Pharma, Rate, Pills
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