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Bluetooth stethoscope Available from 3M HealthCare – Wireless Heartbeats
With the device and software, you also get a visual as well as sound. The price is not cheap at almost $400.00, but in time like everything else it may come down in price. The sound file can be stored on a PC, and well, better yet think about Personal Health Records too, the heartbeat of your PHR…
eClinicalWorks Partners with Correctional Medical Services, Inc.
One more big move for eClinicalWorks in the expansion of EMR/EHRs, this time with correctional facilities. I believe that eClinicalWorks was a big pioneer in working with their software as it certainly seems to be very popular as an ambulatory medical records program, and they were the first EMR t…
Republicans Abandoning Health Care Talks? – Grassley Raising Money for Re-election By Opposing Obama HealthCare Reform
The opposition is ready and has a commercial to debut on television, video below. Back in January though, I watched the film put out by the Senate Finance committee and didn’t see anyone in the room who knew much about electronic records and none seemed to know what a PHR was, so how involved in t…
“Fatostatin” – 3 In One Drug – Lose Weight, Reverse Diabetes and Lower Your Cholesterol
I do like the tagged name, “Fatostatin” kind of says it all and does it all. It is working on mice and now if it will work on humans, well we might be on to something. You can do three things with one treatment/pill, lose weight, reverse diabetes and lower your cholesterol. All that seems to be …
CVS Caremark to offer free Flu Shots for unemployed – Minute Clinics and Vouchers
If you get your shot at a Minute Clinic, add it to your PHR, HealthVault or Google Health. A few weeks ago I had a little time and spoke to a physician’s assistant at one of the Clinics in Orange County. We talked about the PHRs and she was right up to date on how to guide a patient into the proce…
Heidelberg MEDDAC Orthopedic Clinic Writes In To Tell Us Their Success With Using Dragon Naturally Speaking
This was a comment made under an old post and deserves it’s own post. Hats off to Dr. Morgan who took the time to add his comments on how speech recognition is working in Heidelberg, Germany. When a physician in our military overseas takes the time to write and comment at this blog, it gets it’s o…
Vice President Joe Biden Talks About Healthcare Reform – White House Wants Videos from Citizens
Joe Biden states his feelings and the problems with health insurance and is asking for citizens to contribute questions and videos. There’s a new online tool to find out how reform will help. It takes a minute or two and answers are given after answering your questions. Also, they want video…
Health Fraud Scores Could Be a Contributing Factor to Medical Claims Being Denied
To help fight fraud, your healthcare claim could be getting a big “score”. In other words we are once again depending on those algorithms to determine what could be determined as fraud. If your claim gets a “big” score, then perhaps the red tape and battle is on. This is somewhat the same technol…
Public Shredders Please! Medical Record Dumping On the Rise
It seems like there’s at least one story a week arising any more on paper records with medical information that could very well be used for identity theft. We go to the gas station to get air and water for our cars and drop in 75 cents or a dollar, can’t someone do the same to allow people easy acc…
Social Media and Healthcare – It’s not Just for the Kids, Folks Over 50 Get It Too
This is great post to make a point, as I hear so much of the time from physicians, “my patients don’t know how to even use a computer and they wouldn’t use this, it’s a waste of time”. Is it maybe the perception model being a little off here? Here’s a case of a physician that sees it quite diffe…
Don't Drink Alcohol? You Have the Higher Risk of Depression – Study and Survey
This is the best research I have seen in a long time! It is even in the journal “Addiction”. Of course excessive drinking as we all know does not help your health, but if you stay within guidelines you are less apt to be depressed, so bring on the martinis, only one or two please. It continues …
HealthCare Reform is a World of the Unknown – And the Same Can be Said For No Reform
I think this CEO of this small hospital system summed it up quite well, and in my own opinion, we need those Algorithmic Centric Laws as nobody really knows how they will be interpreted… UNLESS and UNTIL…. The computer code spells it out as 1000 pages of text doesn’t do much other than make a lot…
Quicken for health benefits Discussed Again – Where Will the Education and Participation Come From?
First of all I am not picking on Quicken Health here as I understand the process of the programmatic algorithms used in conjunction with insurers and personal health records and this is a huge learning curve. So huge, that I want to make a point of educating our leaders and all of US citizens on th…
IBM Files Patent For A TV Remote That Tweets
Interesting that IBM is looking to create some monetary action potentially here with a Twitter Remote. This is just at the patent stage and if you want more details, use the link below to read up at Tech Crunch. Gee, everyone can walk around with their own Twitter remote soon, and just think how …
Low Adherence for taking Medications – Its Those “Bad” Patients and “Bad” Doctors Again…
I just also read where UnitedHealthCare is going to offer a $20.00 discount today too on some of the higher priced drugs to encourage patients to take their meds. Well, with the stance of the FDA today on so many different drugs and information that is coming out, perhaps some consumers are doing…
Cardiologists and Oncologists on the Brink with Healthcare Reform – Many State They Will Close Up Shop
This comes right back around to how doctors are paid with our fee for service arrangement. These folks have families and bills to pay like the rest of us and if you put yourself in their shoes you might be feeling a bit of the same with going into an “unknown” area of compensation. Algorithms are …
Social Security Administration Linking Data with Microsoft HealthVault
If you are a regular reader here, I have been keeping up on the progress with Social Security and personal health records and now we are down to having a prototype linking the 2 together. The main focus here has been for disability benefits. Beth Israel Deaconess in Boston has had a pilot program …
New CPT Codes - Billing Codes for Robot and Home Monitoring Services - Telemedicine
That’s right, CPT Codes for Robots in the patient home, so all we need now are patients who have the robots (grin). This is a further expansion of telehealth. These are for use in billing Medicare and Medicaid. We have seen the robots used in hospitals that allow physicians to telecommute and th…
The Genomic Test for BRACAnalysis (Breast Cancer) To Be Scrutinized by United Health Care
This is kind of a set back for women to find out if they have the potential of developing breast cancer, although it is not ruled out, the insurance company is starting a new procedure to having prior notification sent to their offices so they can monitor which patients are having the genomic blood…
