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Medical Scribes Still Continue to Grow Beyond Just Emergency Medicine…
Why is this happening, time is one element and complicated medical records systems are another. Almost every doctor who has converted will tell you that in beginning there is a loss of productivity and this is due in part to the learning curve anyone has with software. That part is not unique to d…
California Doctor Files Suit Against Blue Cross for Denying His Application To Become Part of Their Network After Agreeing to Their Terms
“Any Willing Provider” law in California is where the doctor is contesting the fact that they won’t let him in, after agreeing to all terms and payments and meeting provider eligibility criteria. This goes back to the early HMO days where only a certain number were allowed to participate and perhap…
Stanford University Opens State of the Art Medical School
Through a computer, all the dummies can be programmed as to how much urine to release for one example and the picture below shows a room of dummies where nobody dies. The new facility was financed through private philanthropy, debt and school resources. In the news too recently is that all medic…
Principal Financial Gets Out of Health Insurance Business–United Health Group Will Offer And/Or Renew Coverage For Policy Holders
One thing that works in the favor of United is that he group of patients to spread expenses over is growing. The rest of the Principal business will stay in place so it’s only the healthcare. The bulk of patients in the Principal system are located in the middle or Midwest part of the country. Wi…
Patient’s Own Stem Cells Used to Repair A Shattered Leg (Video)
This is pretty newsworthy to say the least as the woman’s leg had been broken for a number of years and was facing amputation and then this…as you watch the vide they put the two ends together and used a gel and further up her leg injected more stem cells. The patient uses telemedicine to check in …
Wright Medical Technology Agrees to Pay US $7.9 Million Settle Anti Kickback Prosecution and Re-establish Ethical Marketing Efforts For Knee and Hip Replacements
The company will be monitored for 5 years as the case revolved around the use of consultants they hired to sell their products. The article states they have agreed to amend their ways of business to ensure kick back situations do not arise in the future. They are not the first knee and hip replace…
Radiation Safety–California Governor Schwarzenegger Signs Law to Help Enforce Safety and Require Any Overdoses To Be Reported to Patients, Physicians and the Department of Public Health
This is good as if you read the news there has not been a way to track these issues and earlier this year we had some pretty tragic incidences relating to software issues with the use of medical radiation treatments. The software issues are critical and I will mention once more in an area like this…
HHS Awards $49 Million For States To Set Up Infrastructure Shops And Create The Ability To Work With And Interpret Insurance Company Algorithms With Exchanges
That’s right, nothing happens without those algos, (aka algorithms) as this process of infrastructure and querying will be necessary for all to be able to purchase and gain larger buying power coupled with saving money. Look at the #1 purpose of the grants, hands down, it’s technology to create bus…
General Accounting Office Appoints New Members to National Healthcare Workforce Commission–Hope Some Have Some First Hand Experience with Health IT And Know Algorithms
I know I beat this to death, but it’s important as without this, we end up with speakers who put their best foot forward, but have no clue on what needs to happen behind the scenes to make things work. With candidates today, boy do we see this all over the news too with lack of general consumer d…
VisionShare Has Offering of Networked Algorithms to Refine and Audit Master Patient Indexes–Transaction Fee Example Of Added Fees/Purchases That Derive Profits From Mathematical Services That Run in the Background With Health IT
Here’s a quote from the press release that says it all and the big decisions these days for CIOs are how many of these do we need and how many can we afford? There are tons of audit services out there like this and the software does what it says it will do, but expect soon a new layer that will com…
“Modern House Call For Women” Announced by Maria Shriver for a 3 Day Clinic in Long Beach–Free Medical and Financial Services for Women In Conjunction with the “Women's’ Conference 2010”
This is an annual event held in Long Beach every year with Maria Shriver as the leader. This year, Dr. Patrick Soon=Shiong is joining the conference. Free medical, dental, vision and wellness care for thousands of women will be offered, without cost to the patient who are underserved and j…
Microsoft–New Windows Live Applications With the “Double Rainbow” Effect (Video)
This is is just funny and I have been using both Windows Live and Office Live since the beta stages and have recommended Office Live for small practices to use too.. Windows Live Writer of course is my favorite and the tool I use for this blog, love those updates to make it easier for me to blog. …
Bill Gates and Warren Buffett Carry the Message of “The Giving Pledge” To China With Discussing Philanthropy And Yielded A Successful Exchange of Ideas From Both Sides
Recently I made a post about Bill Gates being a keynote speaker at this year’s mHealth Convention and also linked back to the events of the “The Giving Pledge” as well. You can revisit some of this at the posts at the link below. is there any doubt that the mHealth Summit is going to be one of the…
Avalide Blood Pressure Medicine Recall Announced–Still No FDA System to Make This Easier–One More Justification to Think About Bar Coding To Scan With a Cell Phone To Locate
60 Million tablets sounds like a lot of lot numbers for all to research. Last year when I began this little campaign I thought the number of recalls was going to grow and sure enough, just read the news every day. So to find the lot numbers visit the FDA website or the Bristol-Myers site and get y…
Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Partner to Fund Plant Research To Further Human Health as Well as Environmental Issues
Back in 2007 the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation gave 100 Million to establish a nursing school, and this grew from their own experiences with medical errors with Betty Moore herself was close to death after being given insulin that was meant for the patient in the next bed as she is not a diabeti…
ebrary Free Breast Cancer Searchable Information Website
This is a good site and so easy to navigate. I have searched various sites on the web relative to breast cancer and the format here is simple and has been presented in what I feel is a great format. Some of the sources found and searched on the site include the National Cancer Institute, Nationa…
Kaiser Permanente Medical Terminology Donation Official Today With CMT Medical Vocabularies To HHS–A Big Step Forward for Interoperable EHRs & PHRS With Open Source Development Now Available For All
Earlier this week the announcement came forward and today it’s official. We all look for collaboration and standards with medical records and all the time and work over the years from Kaiser will also stand to benefit software developers and clinicians all over. For patients, this means a big step…
Dr. Richard Gilfillan Named New Acting Director of Innovation For Medicare and Medicaid–Hope To Repair Some Broken and Non Ethical Algorithms in Healthcare Reform?
You certainly have to be innovative in working with insurers today, that’s an understatement and it appears this is the area where CMS is looking for some innovation as there’s a lot of work to be done and when the insurers have all the data and IT infrastructure, it’s a delicate balance. We need m…
