From the IT side of things, I can’t agree more with all the additional administrative functions that appear in today’s medical practice, as a few years ago when I was writing code and creating a medical records program, much of what I was doing was looking for ways to automate some of this, to free the...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-30-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, My Commentaries, Physician, healthcare, EHR, Health IT, PHR, Personal Health Records, software, Internet, insurers, administration, Red tape, information overlaod, IT partner
This is something in my conversations with physicians that keeps coming up, so I thought I would write up a post. On this blog I provide links to the $4.00 and other cost saving areas for anyone, insurance or no insurance to find the best cost on generic drugs and these are the heaviest hit links...
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on 09-14-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, Physician, drugs, Pharma, Prescriptions, HMO, Pay for Performance, Cash Patient
When I read numbers and studies such as this, it is no wonder we are lagging behind other countries in healthcare. First of all, if it is not affordable and accessible, the consumer will not go, especially in the area of chronic diseases and especially in preventative medicine. We have a...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 08-14-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, Physician, healthcare, US Healthcare, preventive medicine, Economics
When will it start paying the bills? The science and development is somewhat fragmented like the rest of health care, and this is not to say in any way that phenomenal breakthroughs are not occurring by any means as they are. Part of the problem is having enough data, real time data for one...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 07-03-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, My Commentaries, Physician, personalized medicine, DNA, Genomics, healthcare, Science, Pharmacogenomics