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WHO Classifies Mobile RF Radiation A Class 2B Cancer Causing Agent And There’s an App For Detection..Sort Of
There’s a cell phone radiation gauge that can be used on cell phones and it turns into an graph to show you how much radiation the phone is sending out. It includes warnings to use the speakerphone, turn the phone and move it’s location. The application is called tawkon. This just might pick up s…
Brazilian Blowout Goes Beyond FDA to Capitol Hill
The big issue with the hair straightening product is the formaldehyde exposure to the salon workers and patrons too I guess for that matter. According to Fox News six other countries have already taken action on the product. FDA Investigating the Safety of Brazilian Blowouts From the pictures, th…
Kaiser Permanente Satisfied With Their Electronic Medical Records Program In Meeting Their Needs
This was a nice video done by the Wall Street Journal that focused on a doctor’s point of view for a big part of it. What was mentioned though is the fact that they don’t communicate outside the system and that’s totally true as back in 2009 Kaiser and the VA announced their pilot program to exchan…
Molina Picks Centricity Practice Solution For Primary EHR Platform
Back in August of 2010 the company had some issues with delayed payments and probably a good reason for their search to find a solution. In addition the company has grown with the acquisition of Unisys Health and Abri Health along with moving into the Texas area. Molina Delayed Medicaid Provider…
Government Cutting Premium Rates by Up to 40% For High Risk Health Insurance For Consumers With Existing Conditions
So far the enrollment has reach about 18,000 consumers, far short of the 375,000 that were slated to be able to gain coverage, why, probably because it’s still not affordable and thus we have the premium cuts in place. Some patients are turned down because of high cholesterol and the pre-existing c…
Ion Torrent’s DNA Desktop Machine Walk Through- How Semi Conductor Sequencing Works (Video)
This is a great video to actually see the working machine and how it works. I have written about the Ion Torrent machine a couple of times to include it’s debut back in December of 2010. The link below has another video that further explains how it works. This is pretty cool as you put in Iphone …
VA and Department of Defense Begin Testing A Common User Interface for VA VistA and AHLTA Medical Records in Hawaii
Boy what a surprise here using an interface that will make it easier to query and access records from both systems. It’s funny that this was proposed on the private side a few years ago with free software to develop at Code-Plex and on that side of the table nobody bit as it was still the big race …
Hospitals Continue to Struggle With Drug Shortages–Availability Is Not Always There
Everyone is talking about better efficiency at hospitals, well how does that compute when they need to dedicate individuals to check and find drugs that are needed every day to treat patients. This takes time and the patients lose again when appointments and therapies need to be rescheduled. As yo…
Individual Health Insurance HMO Prices in New York City Growing To Being Non-Affordable for Many–One Company Has Premiums Over $3000 a Month
The number of HMOs serving New York City has also dropped from 13 in 2004 to seven today. I’m guessing that the bankers on Wall Street aren’t paying this as they get a discounted employer plan so who does that leave out there? The numbers have dropped from around 100,000 individuals to just over …
Security Breaches Getting Attention Again–Patient Privacy Issues at Stake And It’s Everyone’s Concern and Problem To Solve-No Witch Hunts Please…
The problem seems to be growing larger and part of the reasons here, outside of “dumb” mistakes as far as taking data home on computers, is that the value of data and data profiles is rising. If there was no value, nobody would want it, right? I do take exception though to the comment from Repres…
Nursing Student Vanishes While on Break at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center
I hope this one has a good ending but as the news reports she was on break from conducting rounds and was not seen again. Her car was found and the cell phone was stated as sending signals from Oakland but the signals now have stopped. BD Police are searching for missing nursing student Miche…
Argus II “Artificial Retina” Wins European Approval
This is some really amazing technology from Second Sight and there are 2 parts, the implant in the eye and the base unit worn that converts images captured by a miniature video camera housed in the patient's glasses into a series of small electrical impulses. The images below show how this works. …
ICD-10 and HIPAA 5010 Form Transitions May Not Be Ready To Meet Scheduled Deadlines-Aggregated and Shared Data Methodologies Require More Time & Planning
This should be be a big drop dead hint for anyone as if you follow how complicated healthcare software has become it’s only natural. New emerging technologies play their role to with disruption and then add on meaningful use and ACOs too, so how is all this going to fit in? Just back a few years a…
GE Creates HealthyMagination Report and Website–Ho Hum One More Site With Consumers Apps That Will Probably Bite the Dust Like Many Others Have
Everybody seems to want to create the applications that are going to get consumers involved but don’t hold your breath:) I like technology and do see how it saves time and money and “can” create better care but not at the rate we are going. I’m getting flat out exhausted just trying to cover some …
Boston Scientific Recalls 29,000 Coronary Imaging Catheters–Tips Detaching
One more recall and and the catheters being recalled will be from hospitals for the most part. We are still using the same old methodologies when a bar code could easily identify recalled products and devices. Some hospitals use RFID to inventory but all are not equipped and even so some devices g…
FDA Approves New Drug To Treat Clostridium Difficile Infections
In July of 2010 the FDA approved a test for C Diff and the results are given within an hour. Already launched in Europe, illumigene C. difficile uses technology that makes it easier and less expensive to use than some other molecular tests. FDA Approves Test for C. Difficile Meridian Bioscience – …
Senator Tom Coburn Discusses Healthcare and Medicare Reform
This is actually an interesting interview that goes in-depth and shows a different side than what has been in the news of late with the Senator. I may not agree with everything he says but there are some very good points here when it comes to wasting money with the government. Back in October of 2…
Life Technologies Launches New Sequencing Analysis Software For The Cloud
We all talk about the future of the cloud and there’s no group that needs it more than the area of genomics and sequencing with the huge amounts of data that is needed to analyze. Life Technologies is now offering cloud services to where researchers can pay as they go. In addition, the same company…
Florida Governor Rick Scott Signs State Budget That Cuts Medicaid Reimbursements in the Sate by 12% While Florida HMO Profits Were Up 16%
We all know states with Republican Governors are not very popular today and Florida is one state saddled with one who is cutting costs everywhere he can. In addition more money for low income care will now be going to the for profit hospitals and the government hospitals will get less. I watched t…
Sleep Marketing–Healthcare Companies Looking to Market and Commoditize Our Habits–Snoozing Marketers Unleashed
This is something that all of us humans and others who walk the face of the earth have been doing since the beginning of time, but now healthcare companies have created a market for this. Gee, we don’t know how to sleep anymore? Granted there are some real life situations for having sleep patterns…
