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Big Pharma Exploring and Moving Data to the Cloud – IT Execs Talk about How It is Being Done
Amazon, Google and Microsoft are the 3 big players for now in the Cloud market. For the purpose of this post, we are talking about external clouds. There is also the internal cloud which is a virtual machine configuration. The FDA already trusts secure external servers for e-mail communication…
Homeland Security Working on a Device that Can Capture Vitals from up to 40 Feet Away – Is the Future of an Emergency Room at the Hospital Too?
Vital signs would come from the carotid artery, the head, chest, abdomen, even a foot. The technology being used for a device is Laser Doppler Vibrometry. The device would be connected to a camera and coordinate with algorithms to converts those data points into measurements emergency medical res…
Reader Comment: American Cancer Society Circle of Sharing Tool Is a Good Thing
Yesterday I posted about the American Cancer Society Circle of Sharing Tool and had a reader post the comment below, which I think is well worth taking a look at. There are multitudes of social networks on the web where patients can and are encouraged to share their medical information, information…
Tenet Announces Joint Venture with MED3OOO – Focus on Electronic Medical Records and Business Intelligence
If you work with a Tenet Hospital, it looks like some possible changes and upgrades could be on the horizon. Many of the ones I am familiar with have used systems from McKesson, but that’s only a few that I am acquainted with locally. With the joint venture it appears there may be a handful of op…
Merck Issues Statement on Singulair Patent Challenge from Teva
Teva has certainly been busy with a number of legal challenges of late, yesterday one filed against Amgen too. The challenge of intellectual property in the pharmaceutical business is certainly heating up. Teva produces generic drugs for the most part and states their efforts are coming forth t…
Push For Electronic Medical Records Must Slow Down - Howard Schmidt, Former White House Security Czar Advises for Secure Applications
This is in fact a good question, are we rushing to get the money available and perhaps pushing matters a bit to fast. I post enough security breach stories on here that somewhat encourages me to agree with the basis of this. Having written a bit of code myself, I know what happens when the pressu…
Teva wants to sell a generic version of the product and claims Amgen is using it’s patented technology to create Sensipar and now it wants Amgen to pay and halt production. This is unusual to somewhat see the tables turned here, usually it is the named brand going after a generic. This case cou…
Need an RFID System at the Hospital – Plug it in to the Electrical Outlets
The system can co-exist without interrupting other Wi-Fi services, so it appears that “dead zones” would not be an issue. They also have devices that can be worn and sterilized too. One the device is plugged in, ensuring you have a live plug too, it immediately becomes a node. RFID technology is…
Deaconess hospital in Spokane Will No Longer Serve as Major Trauma Center
Down in Orange County here, I am starting to see some of the same or similar with hospitals, the signs out front are changing. I recently drove by a hospital owned by Prime Health Care and the sign out front listed the hospital name and underneath, it stated “limited emergency care”. Prime Health…
Microsoft HealthVault Device Logo Requirements 1.20 Available for Device Vendors
If you have purchased a blood pressure or glucose device, you may have already seen the sticker on the devices, depending on what device you bought. Devices will need certified drivers to work and the old 1.0 certification is up in June. BD Microsoft has released the latest set of requirements…
Those Who Just Take What the Payers Offer May be Missing Out – Money Left on the Table
This is an issue close to my own heart, as years ago and still even today it’s difficult for me to hopefully get the point across of how important business intelligence software is to mine and drill down to find where you may have been short changed and how to better manage what you have. Years ag…
Stand Up to Cancer Grants Go to 2 Arizona Doctors and Their Teams to Turn Science Into Cures for Cancer
I have covered a few posts from the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) which is where the grant money is going. Joshua LaBaer formerly from Harvard heads up the bioscience lab at TGEN. BD PHOENIX (AP) - Two prominent cancer doctors and their team are getting an $18 million gran…
Isotope Update – Nuclear Radiation Treatments Could be Delayed As Other Plants Close Down for Scheduled Maintenance
No doubt there will be shortages if the reactor in Canada ends up being down for 8 months potentially. It appears that France, Argentina and Belgium will be holding up the show with production as there are only 5 facilities in the world who manufacture the product. If you are being scheduled for…
We Deny Fewer Claims than They Do – Is this Necessary?
Good news for Humana I guess, but when it comes down to the matter at hand, it makes no real difference unless it is YOUR claim, at least that is the way I tend to look at such matters with an industry that continues to struggle with transparency. BD Pays Claims Fastest with the Fewest Denials …
Aetna Web Site Data Breach – Employees and Former Employees Affected
Have you had any spam from Aetna lately? The article states this is how the breach was identified with individuals complaining. If you applied for a job with Aetna, might we worth taking a look into this too. Everyone gets a year of free credit monitoring. One item of notice is that the site wa…
American Cancer Society Circle of Sharing Tool Unveiled – Microsoft HealthVault
Built on Microsoft HealthVault, Circle Of Sharing will allow sharing of medical information and resources from the American Cancer Society with a trusted circle of caregivers, family, and friends . This is once again a great idea as all the information is centralized in one location. Myself, I hav…
United Health Care Says Cheaper Efficient Doctors and Reducing Hospital Visits by the Elderly Would Help Reduce the Cost of Healthcare
It is nice to make statements to somehow convey helping but for some reason it’s the lack of transparency with the company that I think tends to give them a tarnished reputation. Last I looked, Senator Rockefeller was still waiting to see if any of the federal employees were hit with the Ingenix o…
e-Zassi Marries Innovation and Collaboration in the Medical Device Industry – Interview with Peter Von Dyck
I had the pleasure to speak with the guys over at e-Zassi recently. Bringing a medical device to market is very costly and time intensive process to properly vet. The e-Zassi team has a lot of experience bringing medical devices to market and they thought there must be a better way. So, these guys d…
