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WakeMate Sleep Analytics Device Warns Consumers to Not Use the USB Charger After Units Have Burst Into Flames-Mobile Health Application
You can read the entire article at Tech Crunch and it appears the unit itself is ok but when you need to recharge and analyze your sleep patterns again, the charger could blow up. The chargers were made in China. For me personally I’m not into analyzing sleep right now as all I care about is wheth…
Synthetic Life Announced by Craig Venter–All About the Code and Sequencing the Genome
This may be a little heavy for most to comprehend but this is more of a technical report on how synthetic life and cell control was created. This is about a 25 minute video. Pay particular attention here to his comments talking about “debugging” as we have this too with software for healthcare and…
12 Year Old Finds Porn Applications on New Coby Kryos Tablet–Runs Android OS
You can watch the video and make your own conclusion. The company said there were “adult” software programs in the library and to me this seems to be a real possibility of where the applications came from rather than being pre-loaded. Perhaps there was not a strong enough limit to allow those appl…
Considering a Total Knee Replacement-Some Straight Talk from an Orthopedic Surgeon
This is great and who better to hear it from than a surgeon who this for a living. Sometimes with all the information we have floating around out there today we might not always get some of the information we need and then too marketing enters the picture and sometimes clouds issues too. Give a li…
Fire At Quanxin Pharma Kills 5-Second Pharmaceutical Factory Explosion This Month in China With Worker Casualties
When we hear news of such, it’s reminds us of outsourcing thoughts too. As the article states this is the second blast/fire this month as another such incident 2 weeks ago also killed 5 people. I didn’t find any references to whether or not they manufacture for any US drug companies, which is very…
CMS Physician Compare Site-Same as Websites For Profit? Same MD Convicted of Medicare Fraud and Dead Chimney Doctor on the List
Well if you read the Medical Quack often enough you know that I have poked around these site a bit as I want to check for accuracy after finding my former doctor who had been dead for 7 years still listed. I think everyone got the word via this blog and she does not appear any more but the other 2 …
Surgeon Sentenced to a Year In Prison for Having His Office Manager Fill in For Him To See Patients And Bill Medicare for the Visits
This had to be an interesting court case and a new move that I have not heard of to have your office manager fill for the doctor. The office manager is also required to pay up with some restitution. If you want a day off, this is not the way to do this and better to find another doctor, as most MD…
Stent Catheter Recall-NanoCross Dilation Catheter Could Break During Use–Need Bar Code Technology to “Scan that Catheter”!
When you look at the website though instead of the recall having center stage first I see the notice about the “biggest healthcare spinoff in US history” listed and when you go further down you do see the recall notice on the page. When it comes to news, spinoff trumps recalls and potential dangers…
McKesson Acquires US Oncology–To Include Pay for Performance EHR Oncology Solutions
The acquisition contains a lot of technology solutions here, if not almost all technology solutions with those algorithms. I guess we are beginning to see this focused everywhere today with modeling physician performance adding additional compensation for the business models. In the text below you…
Beware of the DNA Snatchers of the Future
Private investigators soon may take on a whole new identify. As we have all read your DNA can easily be picked up off a glass where you drank some water, a beverage at a bar and so on. We currently have GINA to protect us from companies using DNA information against us but what about other consume…
Could HealthVault Develop a Hack For Kinect Like World of Warcraft Has? (Video)
Back in September I wrote a post about the small number of individuals using personal health records and efforts of those who are trying to make setting up a PHR fun, and until now there was no way to make it fun as hard as software folks worked at it. The consumer still knows the difference betwee…
Healthcare Reform Putting Additional Pressure on Public and Medicaid CIOs-The Health IT Bubble Gets Closer As Money And Digital Literacy is Scarce
I’ll go back to this one more time and again mention how valuable those with Health IT experience are today. I said this back two years ago after the election that folks with hands on IT experience were needed and that figure heads should be out, and it’s coming full circle. Why do I see some of t…
Medical Marijuana Records Found in Trash Dumpster
It has been difficult enough for those who use medical marijuana but now they can join the security breach group as someone threw their files to include social security numbers and other personal data into the trash. This happened in Colorado and they should be covered under HIPAA too. New owners …
Keith Richards Talks About The Luxury of Using Merck Cocaine
In his book he wrote about his use of the product and how pharmaceutical cocaine was so much better and pure than what he found on the street and grated he had the money and I guess the connections to get it years ago. We all know that this man like Ozzie Osborne defy the odds and are still living …
Congress Will Read the US Constitution Out Loud when They Return Next Week-Anyone Heard of a Podcast?
I mention podcast as that is how the rest of the US citizens get quite a bit of the information we are responsible or knowing today. How long is this going to take when legislation could be going on? This is the issue today with citizens and general consumer digital literacy facing the antiquated …
