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
There’s probably no bigger fan of PHRs than yours truly here, but where’s the awareness and out reach here, it doesn’t exist. The technology is out there, but what good is it if nobody uses it or realizes the value. Consumers, much less doctors and clinical staff all over have not a clue...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-13-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, Education, PHR, Google Health, Personal Health Records, Microsoft HealthVault
This actually a pretty good start and I have had my own campaign of sorts going on with getting the FDA up to speed, and they are definitely having to play catch up, as are some other government agencies. In prior posts I had written that some clinical studies were still being written in long hand...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-31-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, My Commentaries, healthcare, Education, Pharma, FDA, Personal Health Records, GSK, Consumer Healthcare, Drug Interactions
$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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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
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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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
So now one can order up and set up your time with a local lab, which is referenced on the site and in my area here it listed LabCorp locations as they are listed as a partner. This really is becoming a help yourself world when you need to order up your own and can even pay online. What else...
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on 10-23-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, Physician, healthcare, PHR, Patient, Personal Health Records, LabCorp, MIB, Lab testing, Patient Service Centers, Digital Lab Order
It is interesting in the last few weeks, since the 2% increase in payments for those physicians who use e-prescribing is getting close about the number of inquiries I have received about “how do I do this”. I have had the link for NEPSI on this site under resources for over 2 years, but now that...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 09-18-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, Medical Records, PHR, Google Health, Quest Labs, Personal Health Records, NEPSI, Free e-prescribing