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Two probable swine flu cases found in Irvine, CA- Update
The test results should be in soon to confirm. Neither individual knew the other one and both had recently been to Mexico, so it appears there may be the first 2 cases on the map for Orange County. Also in the news in Boston, Harvard’s Dental School Treatment clinic has been temporarily closed …
Hospital MRI and Other Medical Devices Infected with Conficker Virus – FDA Required 90 Day Notice before Windows Update Patch Could be Applied
This is an interesting story all the way around. First of all I hope all the medical devices found were disconnected from the Internet until the FDA gives the stamp of approval. The manufacturer also said the device was not meant to be connected to the internet, but it was. Last week in the story…
Amalga at El Camino Hospital Helping to Monitor the Status of Swine Flu – everyone can use Virtual Earth for Global Tracking
Yesterday I posted about Microsoft Amalga and the New Life Sciences software to be added. I mention this as the Life Sciences folks are the ones that operate fast and quickly to create custom solutions as needed and with Swine flu, I can imagine they are busy. Again, I hope to have my recent inter…
Swine flu Moving Closer to Orange County, CA – One probable case at Cal State Long Beach
This is California, the Long Beach campus gave out masks and flooded with news, but few were wearing them, unlike what we saw in the CNN video in Mexico. I guess the potential seriousness has not sunk in yet. Forth Worth, Dallas has shut down the school system for 10 days in Texas. Today, WHO …
Chief Complaint Swine Flu -Video from Mexico
CNN put out a video showing what it looks like in Mexico, including a hospital and how healthcare professionals are reacting and treating patients. Hope it doesn’t get to this point here in the US. As you can see, there’s a lot of confusion too with information and what and what not to do. BD …
Security tightened over data loss – Flash Drives Can be One of HealthCare’s Biggest Nightmares
This even happened in the UK, but it can happen anywhere. I have seen it here, flash drives lost containing patient information, and sometimes not encrypted either. Most of the manufacturers today include a menu whereby information can be encrypted, but there are many that do not. Why in the wor…
Microsoft's Tellme Voice Service For Windows Mobile Cell Phones Coming Soon
This is great news for the new operating system for Windows Mobile. I use a Windows Mobile Cell Phone and already use some of the voice commands available in Live Search on the device. It certainly makes it easier than inputting all the information via keyboard. As I understand, the service will…
Making Money from the Swine Flu – Shirts and Games Appear on the Web
With the way advertising works today and the internet, it didn’t take long for shirts and games to appear. If you don’t get enough with just the daily news updates, you can now entertain yourself too. We just can’t get away from entertaining ourselves it appears, no matter what the topic is. Pe…
California Outpatient Centers Offering 23andMe Genome Service
This shows a clear new effort to help educate patients on what their genetic background could hold in store, and is one more step with bringing personalized medicine knowledge to the public. This is not a complete sequence, but rather an informative DNA study that can stand to offer information re…
First Death Victim of Swine Flu in US was visiting from Mexico
The State of Texas is especially on alert with those crossing over the border. BD HOUSTON — A 23-month-old boy from Mexico City became the first person to die of swine flu in the United States after being airlifted two weeks ago to a Houston hospital from the border town of Brownsville, where …
Dr. Sanjay Gupta in Mexico – Masks are Everywhere
This is also very interesting what he has to say about the strain, and what makes up the composition. It is called the Swine flu as that contains 2 parts, but there’s also one part bird and one part human, so it’s a bit complex. By getting a flu shot, you are being protected against the human side…
Dendreon Day - What Got People More Excited, the Announcement or the Stock?
A current treatment, docetaxel (Taxotere) has some pretty bad side effects, but Provenge can extend life without the nasty chemo effects. What was a bit of a big sideline today was watching the stock, it was a real roller coaster, questioned and verified by Nasdaq. The Wall Street Journal has som…
Global Map to View Swine Flu Alerts – HealthMap for Global Disease
The site will give a quick visual on where Swine Flu is and has been reported. This is what it looks like today and lucky folks in Alaska and Hawaii appear to have been spared so far. Actually from the map you can search the world and check what type of diseases you want to track. For this exam…
What’s a Drug Rep’s Worst Enemy – A Computer, Maybe?
According to this study, the virtual reps with the e-promotions are turning out to be a bit more popular. Just like anything else that is on the computer and internet, it offers the physicians the ability to intertwine at their convenience. A few years ago at several meetings I attended at Micros…
Microsoft Introduces Groundbreaking Technology – Amalga Life Sciences Software
There’s quite a bit going on this week, and one expo in particular is the Annual Bio-IT Conference. Today, Microsoft announced Amalga Life Sciences Software. The press release and early adapters follows below. Additional Information can be read at the Bio-IT website. Yesterday, the site spoke …
BusinessWeek – Medical Device Award Winners
One product mentioned in the winner’s circle is Merlin. You can do a search of the blog as I have several posts relative to the product from St. Jude. St. Jude Medical Announces FDA Approval of New Features with Merlin for Implantable Cardiac Devices St.Jude Collaborates With Microsoft HealthVau…
Tweeting for Trials – TrialX Wins New York Entrepreneur Week Venture Competition Award
I have been somewhat following this company since they started out, and at that point were questioning if there was in fact a market for this type of product, and I think we have the answer now, of course there is. I also have their widget on my blog for a quick and easy look up for clinical trials…
Belly dancers Rally for Better Health Care in Seattle
They have to usually find their own private insurance plans, hope the weather was nice that day. BD Small rallies in favor of a national health care system took place across the country today. Seattle's event was called "Shake it up for Single Payer," and was held outside the federal bu…
Influenza Tracking Project – Now You Can Talk about it on Facebook
If you have the flu, Swine or otherwise and want to talk about it to help researchers, here’s the place on Facebook. Information will be tracked by your IP address. You can even participate if you don’t have the flu too, just remember who reads all of this and mines the information, everyone. BD…
Johns Hopkins Health System Acquires Suburban Hospital – Bethesda, MD
The Suburban Hospital location is right across the street from the NIH, so this is probably a very good strategic move with the relations the hospital currently has with the NIH. BD The Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation said yesterday that it will acquire Suburban Hospital in Bethesda,…
Regulators again criticize conditions at Anaheim General Hospital – Orange County, CA
A few more blows for this hospital trying to survive. It has already lost it’ accreditation from the Joint Commission. Not a good idea perhaps to leave patient charts laying around in the doctor’s lounge, although I have seen this done elsewhere too. The one item that is disturbing is to have su…
