I spend quite a bit of time here posting about new developments and yes I have both a Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault account, I do comparisons, etc. I see many very prolific bloggers and journalists talking about PHRs too, but something that pops into mind here, do they have one? It sure...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-20-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Medical Records, medicare, PHR, Google Health, Clincal Trials, Personal Health Records, Health 2.0, Microsoft HealthVault
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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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-20-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, priorities, Media, Focus, Awareness, Heroes
A couple weeks ago I posted an interview with Mike Milken and he addressed the same issue, weight and a few more items such as curing cancer. In case you missed it, use the link below to follow, very good interview and recommended. Michael Milken and Muhammad Yunus – Discuss Healthcare and...
With collaborating with Mayo Clinic here, this gives an example of how “branding” of methodologies and information technologies serve to create additional income from the licensing of such by incorporating information from Mayo as an example to include decision making support software at the point of...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-18-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, Hospital, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, Centricity, integration, GE Healthcare, hospital branding
Part of the cure for his cancer involves hormones and, yes he is getting a taste of what females deal with all our lives, but if it offers a cure for him, it is worth every minute. Good article to read if this therapy would be applicable to you or someone you know as it offers a lot of information...
Personalized Medicine will create many answers and solutions in healthcare, but will we have the money to afford it? I post quite a bit about genomics and personalized medicine on the blog here and the one thing it has in common with the rest of healthcare is cost. The success of personalized...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-14-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, personalized medicine, healthcare, Medical Records, FDA, integration, CMS, Leavitt
Start up companies and biotech engineering is making a big calling as nobody wants or likes the formulas that crippled Wall Street any longer. There’s a lot of work in R and D though where formulas and scientific study are needed to cure diseases, that is for sure. Hopefully all our well educated...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-14-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Genomics, healthcare, Biotech, Start Ups, Wall Street, Algorithms, Engineers