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
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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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
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
The group has grown in 7 years from five people focused on healthcare worldwide at Microsoft; now there are more than 700. This group is for responsible primarily for the enterprise space (in biopharma and medical devices), so these are the largest customers in the U.S. I have provided a...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-09-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Microsoft/Windows News, personalized medicine, Genomics, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, Biotech, R and D, Server 2008, Life Sciences, SharePoint, Windows Presentation Foundation, HPC Server 2008
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
A picture is worth 1000 words. I have recently had some conversations with health care clinicians, administrators, etc. about the Personal health records of Google and Microsoft Health Vault and this shows clearly how Beth Israel Deaconess has integrated the system with their own internal system...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 09-03-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, PHR, Personal Health Records, Kaiser Permanente, integration, Hosptial, Healthvaut, Beth Israel Deaconess of Boston
Interesting video from Microsoft, Johnson and Johnson and the Discovery Channel on how health care will be in the not too distant future. I tripped out a bit on the toothbrush taking my pulse here, but as the video states, these are all thing either here now or in development. BD ...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 08-27-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Johnson and Johnson
This is hot stuff! Recently I had an in depth interview with Dr. Patrice Milos, Chief Scientific Officer at Helicos discussing genomics and where the future is going. Helicos has the software and the genomics machine, and wouldn't this be a nice addition to run on Surface. This...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 08-27-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Microsoft/Windows News, Hospital, Genomics, healthcare, microsoft, Surface, Cardiology, Touch Screen, HIMMS, Surface Technology, Helicos, Heart Transplant, MSDN, Scripps, Healthblog