This has not been approved by the FDA, but it is in clinical trials. This is a pretty amazing device.
CADence is the name of the device. For the trials what they are looking for are patients that already have issues to use the device to check for accuracy.
The device hums and works from sound waves and is able to identify blockages in the coronary arteries and there’s no radiation, and of course we like that. The device is to be used in an office setting and compared to the tests we do today who wouldn’t prefer this test and device. BD
Sounds associated with turbulent blood flow through partially blocked or restricted arteries are used in several common clinical practices. The first is the measurement of blood pressure where the brachial artery in the arm is restricted by a pressure cuff; the sounds generated are called Korotoff sounds and are used to determine the onset and cessation of blood flow and the related systolic and diastolic pressure. Blockages in the carotid arteries in the neck can be detected by the sounds they produce. Similarly, coronary arteries produce a sound associated with blockage.
The first time sound was described in conjunction with coronary artery disease was in a 1967 American Journal of Medicine article written by Dock W, and Zoneraich S. They detailed a high frequency diastolic/continuous murmur that was found along the left parasternal area at the 2nd, 3rd, or 4th intercostal spaces. This sound was correlated with moderate to severe proximal left anterior descending coronary artery stenosis. It was named “Dock’s Murmur.”
to be a realist and take things a step at a time. 
was down for several days and just came back up Monday. I call it the “Sebelius Syndrome” since she was so public in so many statements that technologists knew were just pulled out of the sky with her perceptions. The Feds now have a former Microsoft Executive working on Healthcare.Gov.
This is a big reason why I don’t want to write code anymore for any big projects..the geeks are always the losers, they can’t get it right fast enough and then you have the politicians with their perceptions of algorithms fairies too and they think they can control this, they can’t. 
what he is getting are people trying to figure out how to survive he says, IT Professionals are on the receiving end of the frustration. He’s the eternal optimist telling all they will survive. I would say not being there at HIMSS, this is probably the best and most realistic information you can hear. I don’t think folks outside of the industry realize how large and complex everything is and I guess you could say that HHS learned a hard lesson with Healthcare.Gov come to think of it. 
I focus on the use and abuse of data, for profit and when it is used out of context and for profit. Well the same thing we see in healthcare also exists with farming. Sure we want good food and better products and big data lurks over there too with “prescriptive planting”. You can read the entire article at the link at the bottom of the post but here we go again, same thing with data for profit. Look at how DuPont is filing lawsuits against farmers who saved “seeds”. Come on if seeds are there and can be used, plant them and don’t put a 75 year old farmer out of business for goodness sakes. 
medical records system used by Walgreens retail clinics is now made available to all drug stores too so no world if the pharmacists are going to create a medical record for the patient as used at the retail clinics, although the article does say the pharmacists will be putting together medication information the patients can take to their doctors. Greenway is the EMR used at the retail clinics. 
DOB and post code. What do you hear about re-matching record, sure it happens all the time and here’s a prime example. Read further how it went to credit agencies next to use to increase premiums. This is why it will be a while before any patient matching algorithms will do the job in the US. 
of hospital data covering 47 million patients which, it was claimed, is to be used to help insurers refine their premiums. 
You can’t regulate it without knowing who all the players are and as citizens of the US, we are given no clue at all other than reading the news and that only scrapes the surface. Little data figures in here as well as far as privacy as both lead to security breaches. Look what happened about a week ago in the UK with a bank, Barclays selling all kinds of personal client information…they had everything, income, health data, etc. and it was rolling around from one broker to another. 
racking in the billions selling data. We can’t have any privacy without an index of who everyone is and a license would do that plus raise a little tax money as it’s only fair as we also are the “free labor” who has to fix flawed data as we are denied access to something and those selling our data know it and could care less about a lot of accuracy.
This event is part of a series of workshops on big data and privacy organized by the 
r finger to get your rate. 
to be of service to clients, so no change there. In addition Covance was stopping work on it’s non finished site in Virginia and another location in Switzerland. Seattle is the location of the lab purchased by LabCorp. 
County oncologist caught for fraud, well used to live down in the same area.
their own home grown EMR which was based on systems created by e-Clinical Works. So I guess they didn’t have time to convert any clinics over to Allscripts. 
pilot that convinced the AMA for years that he was a doctor? Here’s the link below if you don’t remember so the AMA didn’t really learn anything from aviation in that respect. (grin).
off and the real world kicks in and when it comes to healthcare, that is important. As a matter of fact if you have not read the essay “On Being A Skeptic” use the link below and there’s some very good points made here. You can’t trust the models 100%. You see this in studies all the time reported in the news…and people seem to think that what ever a model creates is accurate…well this wrong…again think of tires on the F-35. There’s a model gone wrong and think of it in terms of treatments in healthcare…as patients we don’t want bad tires. 
they may create a new model to replace. 
Integration and code rewriting has been a main stay around Allscripts for a number of years since they grew by acquiring other technologies. Recently too their 
respectively, both come from divisions of Optum.Optum, a division of the UnitedHealthcare group, has purchased a majority stake in Audax Health Solutions in a deal “which included cash, options, preferred stock, and significant working capital,” according to Audax. 
show how money is pulled out of thin air. Social networks are fine and we use them but in the last couple of years, they have become more than that and it primarily one of the reasons people can’t tell the difference between virtual values and real values anymore. Larry Ellison said it well…so when you watch the PBS documentary see what’s happening to the kids and further yet see what big corporations and movie companies are doing to maximize the addictive algorithms..to make money. So as you read about today’s acquisition which as I understand is going to be a separate entity, here’
is pretty nuts and so this is product so I guess with the Bluetooth connection here they want to make sure they get one of these e-cigarettes Bluetooth devices in your hands, even to just carry around as a microphone and music player, as that would be advertising for them, a strange form of “product placement”…(grin). 
wild”…so yeah let’s let the hospitals go broke and not protect their interest with seeing patients who can’t afford their premiums…I swear these folks are both under the impression that algorithm fairies exist out there. I have already identified and coined “The Sebelius Syndrome” which she has the name as the foot in mouth we have seen in the news is so obvious, 
these things..much better than the Algo Fairies if you want a taste of reality. 
Ellison’s keynote that this topic came up and I was glad to hear him address it. I used to be a developer and wrote code and perhaps like others I see it before the layman. Well let’s I have been about a year or better out on this.
all over the internet and comes up with more ways for us to waste our time. Sure there’s some communication values there and it’s not what I think he set out to create but it’s “click bait” haven now with both the legal and fake “Like” routines with a big fire hose that controls and moves what you read by the algorithms. Due to what it does and grew into, I kind of fell his participation in the 
He gets asked about ‘human behavior”..and talks about his daughter making the move “HER”…”a guy with a piece of software” he says about the movie. 
to Healthcare, tie those folks up to get better to the machines and the phones…well this is nothing new either as for at least 4 years I have been writing about not leaving the human out and too many are sucked into the technology phases to where to save money, get those folks attached to those machines. Insurers have been going overboard on this for years, even to where we have studies and bullshit reports out there that extend predictive analytics on how much money will be saved if we get these “evil twins” in society hooked up to behavior analytics and fix them. 
here and the messages we see in her movies are great, again especially with “HER”. She sees it ahead of time as well by just growing up in the environment I think. She also produced American Hustle which is also up for many awards.
If your work is correct and on target, there should be no problem replicating it. Anyway just another example on how perceptual nonsense works and the problem is separating the “junk” from the good stuff and it’s getting pretty gray out there.