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...
Posted to
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
Does Healthcare need Twitter? Well Twitter can sure use some additional healthcare folks. When I began using Twitter I didn’t give it much thought and actually didn’t know what the real purpose was of letting others know where you are or simply typing in an update. Well enter RSS feeds and...
Posted to
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on 10-24-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, Physician, healthcare, Health IT, Twitter, FriendFeed, Health 2.0, Cancer Centers, Public Health, communication
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...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 09-14-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, Physician, drugs, Pharma, Prescriptions, HMO, Pay for Performance, Cash Patient
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...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
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
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
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 ...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 07-18-2008
Filed under: Tablet PCs, Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, Physician, healthcare, Medical Records, Tablet PC, Patient
The original story is posted here , but the driver of the car was identified as a physician who pulled in front of the bicyclists and put on the brakes as they were apparently in his way. After the incident the driver identified himself as a physician. This story is almost unbelievable,...