If you are one of many, well like all of us in the search for information relative to healthcare today, the self diagnosing trends are alive and well. With the wealth of information we have available, it is easy to do a little reading and self diagnose yourself with an entire multitude of diseases...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-30-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, PHR, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, Data Mining, Diagnosis, ER, distractions, primary MD, cyberchondria
$9.99 for 90 days with enrollment with the Health Savings Pass CVS becomes the latest retail drug chain to jump on the bandwagon, pretty close in comparison, except you need to join the Health Savings Plan. The plan is primarily created for cash patients but anyone can benefit so if you have a...
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on 10-31-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, PHR, Google Health, Prescriptions, Generic Drugs, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, CVS, Discounts, Minute Clinic
Good interview from Robert Scoble and well worth listening to, he speaks about how healthcare is in a very fast pace, faster than what we have known in the past and about the shift to the consumer is evolving as far as taking care and accumulating your own personal health care records. People are...
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on 10-26-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, privacy, microsoft, Medical Records, PHR, Google Health, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, Economy, MIB, Health 2.0, Healthline
10,000 employees, family members or friends of employees of Scripps will be able to participate in the study, Affymetrix to Scan, Navigenics to interpret and offer life style guidance and the Microsoft HealthVault will be the place where participants can enter information and share it as they see fit...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-09-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Microsoft/Windows News, personalized medicine, Genomics, healthcare, microsoft, HealthVault, Amalga, DNA Testing, Navigenics, Scripps, Sequencing, Affymetrix, GeneChip
With clinical trials becoming a bit more complicated, and with new processes of running genomic related reports during the time frame, it is getting to be a bit of a complicated issue, thus now there are services that will help find the appropriate candidates for the trials. No longer is it perhaps...
One more step for integration with the Microsoft HealthVault. Using what is sometimes called middleware, Covisint is connecting both AT&T and the HealthVault. As mentioned below, electronic prescribing is included and this should also help bridge a gap to retrieve data from Home health...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 06-23-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, Windows Mobile, Microsoft/Windows News, microsoft, HealthVault
More news from Microsoft and partners on the HealthVault this week. About a month ago I posted on the new campaign aimed at consumers that is starting at the pharmacy level to promote e-Prescribing . Well that time is here as efforts are under way. I was at an practice this week and...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 06-10-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Microsoft/Windows News, My Commentaries, EMR, microsoft, EHR, Health Care, PHR, e-Prescriptions, HealthVault