Dr. Ramona Bates is a surgeon by day and a wonderful quilt creator on her off hours. Today began the first day of bidding for her charity on one of her fine quilts we see on her blog. She can’t quit stitching! If you have read my blog often enough I have included some of the most interesting...
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on 12-01-2008
Filed under: Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, Charity, Blog, Silent Auction, Quilting, Childhood Brain Tumor Foundation, Brain Tumors, Founcation
This is a bit off the wall, and when you have about 2 hours it’s worth giving a watch. I didn’t agree with everything stated here and anyone watching may not either, but you might come away with some knowledge about technology and some thoughts about the future of where the world is going. There are...
Good post here about bloggers, you never know where we lurk, but more importantly, what are they going to blog about? Well for the most part good bloggers use common sense, but as in anything out there, there’s always exception to the rule. Personally from this picture, I think photographers...
ZDNet just wrote about Dr. Kolodner and his recent report which is good, but we need more than reports. I have been doing a whole lot here reporting on reports! Can we move forward as I think we have won the battle that PHRs are worth their weight here and get the show moving? You...
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on 11-25-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Microsoft/Windows News, My Commentaries, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, Health IT, PHR, Google Health, VA, personal heatlh records, Military Health Records, Department, mentors, education of Defense
These are a couple posts from last month. What is interesting is the difference of the dollar amounts here, $65 million more for a procedure for cats and dogs. Any money and donations of course are appreciated, but could the good doctor being relaying a message here? His announcement...
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on 11-21-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Grants, R and D, sterilization, X-Pr5ize, healthcare for pets
This is a great post, and something I was going to write about as well, but the author here has saved me some time and covers the point well, just how distracted are we, a lot. Right now we have some very serious issues going on in the US, but in my small travels, I seem to find many that are just...
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on 11-20-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, priorities, Media, Focus, Awareness, Heroes
This very extensive article examines various hospitals in Massachusetts and the cost of the same procedures at different hospitals, and then continues further to discuss how this happens; contracts with the insurers and the ability to use “branding” to command a higher rate, all the big centers do it...
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on 11-16-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, Physicians, Hospitals, bankruptcy, Balance Billing, Transparancy, Debt consolidation, Vendors, Hosptials