Non-Profit Cancer Center Closes In Newton Massachusetts – Madoff Fall Out

<p> The fall out continues and sadly for the non profits, a center that was helping those with cancer.  Also, the <a href="http://blogs.jta.org/philanthropy/article/2009/02/02/1002696/shapiro-foundation-hit-hard-by-madoff-will-make-no-new-grants-in-2009">Shapiro Foundation</a> will not be creating any new grants for the year 2009.   </p> <p>The SEC, just like the FDA needs to have the talent and technology to be able to monitor and hopefully our government is now painfully aware as are many citizens that lack of technology will get one “screwed”, as there is no bliss left.  I’m sure there will be more agencies added to the list as time moves on, and hopefully the SEC can <a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2009/01/sec-probe-and-steve-jobs-inquiring.html">leave poor sick Steve Jobs alone</a> and go after some real culprits.  BD  </p> <p><img align="right" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_v3zjJigoAPE/SUVo2B2pFeI/AAAAAAAANno/DXcyYzbJ4rk/image_thumb%5B6%5D.png?imgmax=800" style="display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px" /></p> <blockquote> <p>BOSTON - February 03, 2009 - The Greater Boston area has lost a free source of support and education for people with cancer. <br />The Wellness Community of Greater Boston in Newton, Mass., abruptly closed its doors Monday, citing the economic downturn and a drop-off in donations, stemming from Bernard Madoff's alleged Ponzi scheme. <br />As a result, the Wellness Community has canceled free nutrition programs, yoga classes, meditation and networking groups</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.wbur.org/news/2009/82965_20090203.asp">Non-Profit Cancer Center Closes In Wake Of Madoff Scandal (WBUR)</a></p> <p><strong><u>Related Reading:</u></strong></p> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/12/quick-books-securities-and-exchange.html">Quick Books – Securities and Exchange Version?</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/10/2-new-hot-words-in-healthcare.html">The 2 New Hot Words in Healthcare: Algorithms and Whistleblowers</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/12/lawmakers-consider-adding-health-it-to.html">Lawmakers Consider Adding Health IT to Stimulus Package – We Need some Congressional Algorithms</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/10/beware-of-geeks-bearing-formulaswarren.html">“Beware of Geeks Bearing Formulas”…Warren Buffett</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/09/how-wall-street-lied-to-its-computers.html">How Wall Street Lied to Its Computers – Software and Programming</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/12/madoff-scam-hits-harvard-medical-school.html">Madoff Scam Hits Harvard Medical School Grants and affiliate Beth Israel Medical Center</a></h6> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2009/01/white-house-stuck-in-dark-ages-of.html"><font size="1">White House Stuck in Dark Ages of Technology – Big Job ahead</font></a></h4> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/11/zietgeist-movie-that-discusses-future.html">ZietGeist – a movie that discusses the future</a></h6> <p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:bb723905-18bd-401e-80f4-1fcdfcdb30ef" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Obama+Healthcare+Plan" rel="tag">Obama Healthcare Plan</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/healthcare" rel="tag">healthcare</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/algorithms" rel="tag">algorithms</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/%22Hands+On+Technology%22" rel="tag">"Hands On Technology"</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Congressional+Algorithms" rel="tag">Congressional Algorithms</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Technology" rel="tag">Technology</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/medical+records" rel="tag">medical records</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/White+House" rel="tag">White House</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/SEC" rel="tag">SEC</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/FDA" rel="tag">FDA</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Madoff" rel="tag">Madoff</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/charities" rel="tag">charities</a></div></p>

Non-Profit Cancer Center Closes In Newton Massachusetts – Madoff Fall Out

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XRay Viewing with an iPhone on Microsoft Surface

<p> This is very cool and with development, it could also have some real applications in healthcare too, taking a snapshot of let’s say a tumor or something else related to patient images, if the x-ray or other image needed to be viewed at another location for a simple example or the image was needed to make notations.  </p> <p>This is wild how this functions to zero in and see the image in XRay form.  Don’t forget too there’s an even larger Surface in development that will be for healthcare too.  BD  </p> <blockquote> <p>The basic premise is that the iPhone allows the user to see through the image on <a href="http://www.surface.com/">Microsoft Surface's</a> screen into additional imagery or data - or allow the user to capture an image and take it with them. Not to be left out, this is also working on phones running Windows Mobile and Android. Hats off to Josh, Darrin and the rest of the crew at Simulant for always thinking outside the box.. literally.</p> <object height="225" width="400"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3021516&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3021516&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="225"></embed></object> <br /><a href="http://vimeo.com/3021516">Stimulant: XRay</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/stimulant">Stimulant</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</blockquote> <p><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/surface/archive/2009/02/02/stimulant-labs-mashup-with-xray-of-an-iphone-with-microsoft-surface.aspx">Microsoft Surface Blog : Stimulant labs mashup with XRay of an iPhone with Microsoft Surface</a></p> <p><strong><u>Related Reading:</u></strong></p> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2009/01/3d-multi-touch-application-for-heart.html">3D Multi Touch Application for Heart Surgeries – Microsoft Surface and HealthVault</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/11/hospital-operator-demos-health-care.html">Hospital Operator Demos Health Care Application For Microsoft Surface</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/10/microsoft-surfaceware-could-get-you.html">Microsoft's SurfaceWare could get you drunk faster than drinks through a straw</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/10/protein-folding-on-microsoft-surface.html">Protein Folding on Microsoft Surface</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/09/microsoft-surface-technology-on-msnbc.html">Microsoft Surface Technology on MSNBC</a></h6> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2009/01/microsoft-surface-to-be-used-at-super.html"><font size="1">Microsoft Surface to be used at the Super Bowl to Coordinate Security</font></a></h4> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:fa1a2e25-71da-4e1d-9f7c-447a54d7b457" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Microsoft" rel="tag">Microsoft</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Surface" rel="tag">Surface</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/healthcare" rel="tag">healthcare</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/technology" rel="tag">technology</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/iPhone" rel="tag">iPhone</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/XRay" rel="tag">XRay</a></div>

XRay Viewing with an iPhone on Microsoft Surface

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Personal Health Records (PHR), I don’t do technology said the CEO, “it’s for those guys over there”

<p>A while back I wrote something similar, with the same theme and it’s about time for another discussion in the <strong>“it’s for those guys over there” </strong>category. It’s just my simple opinion, but this is part of the whole education process going on today, getting everyone to embrace and at least try a free PHR and see what it’s all about.</p> <h6><u>What’s with those big ugly yellow pads?</u></h6> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SOkgP3NVBlI/AAAAAAAAJWQ/nnmptQQyMD8/s1600-h/image%5B25%5D.png"><img align="left" alt="image" border="0" height="123" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SOkgRMoRmxI/AAAAAAAAJWU/CtaXy2SlfcI/image_thumb%5B13%5D.png?imgmax=800" title="image" width="170" /></a>They talk about all their bright employees and staff and yet, the seem to conduct themselves and much of their business with methodologies from the past. Speaking here of healthcare, <u><strong>why do those CEOs still carry yellow pads?</strong></u> <strong>Have they not heard of digital notes, iPhones or Tablet PCs or PHRs? </strong> </p> <p>Perhaps the CEO (or any other person of authority) might think, well the hospital will have my records, well maybe, and maybe not. Not all hospitals have electronic medical records and no amount of bellowing, screaming, pulling rank or what ever you might want to call it is going to help if you end up in an emergency room with paper charts that are not electronically connected. So, Mr. CEO is out on a camping trip in Wyoming and feels a potential heart attack coming on and is in a panic. Helicopter takes him to the closest hospital, but can he remember to quickly tell the clinicians about his medications, past procedures if needed, maybe and maybe not, but remember he said PHRs are for those guys over there. </p> <p><strong>To the ER doctor on duty, he’s not a CEO, he’s another patient</strong> who they are going to try their best to help and the physician would dearly love to have any credible information he/she could get their hands on, as many ER physicians have told me, they get a lot of “I take one blue pill, in the morning, 2 yellow ones during the day and one green one at night”….so what does the doctor have to work with? Good question, but remember <strong>“PHRs are for those guys over there.”</strong></p> <p><strong>A quick log on to a PHR would make all this information possible.</strong> Maybe even his wife could do this too if he were in too much pain, meantime the wife is over there filling out reams of paperwork as the CEO is screaming, in pain, and still pondering his CEO status.</p> <p>There are many types of PHRs on the market, some free and some you pay for. </p> <p>Some PHRs require that you sit down and try to remember all your medications, procedures, histories, etc. and type them all in yourself, a task that takes time and relies on memory at some point. </p> <p><strong>Some PHRs are equipped with partners (Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault) that can make data entry from your drug stores, labs, medical devices, locate clinical trials,etc. automatic with a couple clicks. I like these the best as it makes data entry easier and it is credible data and formatted.</strong></p> <p><strong>Many PHRs partner with Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault,</strong> like the ones at the hospital and at the CVS Minute Clinics, so guess what, instant records without you having to type all the information in the record. Medicare is using them on a pilot program, and the military used both Google and HealthVault to write their PHR that integrates. </p> <p><strong>Pay very close attention here with Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault, they have partners,</strong> plain and simple, get set up and click in your information from CVS, Longs, Quest Labs, the American Heart Association and more, unless you want to spend all the time doing the work yourself. The buttons below will take you to Google Health and HealthVault, so go look around and take a tour if you have not used a PHR.</p> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2009/02/phrs-comparison-and-opinions.html">PHRs a comparison and opinions</a></h4> <p><a href="https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=health&nui=1&continue=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fhealth%2Fp%2F&followup=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fhealth%2Fp%2F&rm=hide"><img height="38" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SGRPjPR9NVI/AAAAAAAAH30/dA55nv_qrf4/googlehealth%5B1%5D.png?imgmax=800" width="95" /></a> <a href="http://www.healthvault.com/"><img height="40" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SM3q6TdZm-I/AAAAAAAAI90/u04OgRqDvPI/image%5B14%5D.png?imgmax=800" width="96" /></a></p> <p><strong>I don’t know why everyone misses the big convenience point of these 2 PHRs and still think it all has to be typed in manually?</strong> </p> <p>Time for some new PHR Paradigms? These 2 PHRs are for everyone, contrary to the CEO’s saying<strong> “it’s for those guys over there”</strong> in the time of needing credible information that could be lifesaving. You could look at this one other way as well, “<strong>yes they are for those guys over there, those guys over there trying to save your life”.</strong> BD </p> <p><strong><u>Related Reading:</u></strong></p> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2009/01/think-tank-details-its-ideas-for-use-of.html">Think tank details its ideas for use of health IT records – Do they use a PHR?</a></h4> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/12/education-not-fear-is-needed-with.html">Education not Fear is Needed with Medical Health Records</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/12/technology-its-for-those-guys-over.html">Technology “It’s for Those Guys Over There” said the CEO – I Don’t Do Digital Notes</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/10/bringing-providers-health-care.html">Bringing Providers, Health Care Executives and Administrators into the 21st Century</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/11/personal-health-records-whos-in-know.html">Personal Health Records – Who’s in the Know and Who has one?</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/11/why-use-phr-because-it-is-there-and-it.html">Why Use a PHR – Because It is there and it stands to help decrease medical errors</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/11/social-security-likes-phrs-too-wanting.html">Social Security likes PHRs too – wanting to work with EMR and PHR software with pilot program</a></h6> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2009/01/trialxorg-clinical-investigator-sign-up.html"><span style="font-size:78%;">TrialX.org – Clinical Investigator Sign up Now Available – Integrates with HealthVault and Google Health PHRs to locate available clinical trials based on health records</span></a></h4> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2009/01/harvard-physician-suggests-getting.html"><span style="font-size:78%;">Harvard Physician Suggests Getting a Personal Health Record Account</span></a></h4> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/11/medicare-pilot-personal-health-care.html">Medicare Pilot Personal Health Care Pilot Program – Education and Awareness Needed</a></h6> <div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline; float: none;" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:5b2b3ee1-12c1-452b-9f52-c16646831f3c" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/PHR" rel="tag">PHR</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Personal+Health+Records" rel="tag">Personal Health Records</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Education" rel="tag">Education</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Healthcare" rel="tag">Healthcare</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Congress" rel="tag">Congress</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Stimulis" rel="tag">Stimulis</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/healthcare" rel="tag">healthcare</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/EHR" rel="tag">EHR</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/interoperability" rel="tag">interoperability</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Google+Health" rel="tag">Google Health</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/HealthVault" rel="tag">HealthVault</a></div>

Personal Health Records (PHR), I don’t do technology said the CEO, “it’s for those guys over there”

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Former US NIH Director Joins the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

<p> He could stand to be very progressively helping with grants being very familiar with the processes and able to focus the foundation quickly to those areas needing help, but unable to get funding through the NIH.  BD  </p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_v3zjJigoAPE/SYjWUcDEB3I/AAAAAAAAOPo/b1Mb6PUxvtU/s1600-h/image%5B9%5D.png"><img align="left" alt="image" border="0" height="47" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_v3zjJigoAPE/SYjWU4ysk5I/AAAAAAAAOPs/FDiy6pZyvLI/image_thumb%5B5%5D.png?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" width="165" /></a>SEATTLE -- The <a href="http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Pages/home.aspx">Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation</a> today announced that <a href="http://www.gatesfoundation.org/leadership/Pages/elias-zerhouni.aspx">Elias Zerhouni, M.D</a>., has joined the foundation’s Global Health Program as a senior fellow. A world-renowned leader in radiology research and an experienced scientific leader he is a powerful voice for scientific innovation. Zerhouni most recently served as the director of the <a href="http://www.nih.gov/">U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH).</a><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_v3zjJigoAPE/SYjWXA985DI/AAAAAAAAOPw/KZ2NsSFNmYQ/s1600-h/image%5B10%5D.png"><img align="right" alt="image" border="0" height="127" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_v3zjJigoAPE/SYjWYk8xACI/AAAAAAAAOP0/hn_8K5rqwDc/image_thumb%5B6%5D.png?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" width="165" /></a> </p> <p>“Dr. Zerhouni has an extraordinary record of championing breakthrough science that leads to tangible health benefits for people in need,” said Dr. Tachi Yamada, president of the foundation’s Global Health Program. “We are delighted that he will bring that innovative spirit and transformative thinking to the foundation’s global health work.” </p> <p>As senior fellow, Zerhouni will advise the foundation on a range of topics, particularly the Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative, which works to identify and help solve the most critical scientific challenges in global health.</p> <p>Prior to being appointed to lead the NIH, he had a distinguished tenure at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine where he served as chair of the department of radiology, vice dean for research and executive vice dean between 1995 and 2002.</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.gatesfoundation.org/press-releases/Pages/elias-zerhouni-senior-fellow-090203.aspx">http://www.gatesfoundation.org/press-releases/Pages/elias-zerhouni-senior-fellow-090203.aspx</a></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p><strong><u>Related Reading:</u></strong></p> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2009/01/bill-gates-and-oliver-sacks-to-speak-at.html"><font size="1">Bill Gates and Oliver Sacks to speak at Technology, Entertainment, Design conference (aka TED)</font></a></h4> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/03/bill-gates-testifies-before-congress.html">Bill Gates Testifies before Congress - more technology education needed before the US falls behind....</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/10/x-prize-gates-foundation-providing.html">X PRIZE - Gates Foundation providing grant to explore prize for innovative breakthroughs in TB Diagnostics</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/07/bill-gates-granted-first-einstein-award.html">Bill Gates granted first Einstein Award</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/06/bill-gates-im-still-pretty-hardcore.html">Bill Gates – “I’m still pretty hardcore”</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/06/bill-gates-leaving-his-fortune-to.html">Bill Gates Leaving His Fortune to Charity</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/05/interface-will-become-affordable-bill.html">'Natural Interface' will Become Affordable - Bill Gates</a></h6> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:e7daf0ec-2701-4944-80df-ca90bd51ed26" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Bill+Gates" rel="tag">Bill Gates</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Microsoft" rel="tag">Microsoft</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/bg3LLC" rel="tag">bg3LLC</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/philanthropy" rel="tag">philanthropy</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/technology" rel="tag">technology</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Bill+and+Melinda+Gates+Foundation" rel="tag">Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Healthcare" rel="tag">Healthcare</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/NIH" rel="tag">NIH</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Elias+Zerhouni" rel="tag">Elias Zerhouni</a></div>

Former US NIH Director Joins the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

He could stand to be very progressively helping with grants being very familiar with the processes and able to focus the foundation quickly...

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One Million, Two Million, who will get the first interview with the Mother of the Octuplets

<p> The latest reports are that she is taking bids on who will pay the most?  Money is not the object?  </p> <p>I have a hard time believing that with expenses of 8 new babies, so let’s be honest about it, money is an object, to help finance raising the kids.  BD  </p> <p> <object height="321" id="WNVideoCanvasDEFAULTdivWNVideoCanvas" width="400"> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> <param name="quality" value="high"> <param name="wmode" value="windowless"></param> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> <param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"> <param name="movie" value="http://video.latimes.com/global/video/flash/widgets/WNVideoCanvas.swf"></param> <embed src="http://video.latimes.com/global/video/flash/widgets/WNVideoCanvas.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="windowless" width="400" height="321" allowFullScreen="true" FlashVars="isShowIcon=true&affiliate=LATMS&affiliateNumber=421&backgroundAlphas=100,100,100,100&backgroundColors=eeeeee,eeeeee,eeeeee,eeeeee&backgroundRatios=0,25,130,255&backgroundRotation=270&borderAlpha=100&borderColor=aaaaaa&borderWidth=1&clipId=3401997&playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDobject&closecaptionPaneLabelText=&closePaneLabelText=&commercialHeadlinePrefix=Commercial&controlsBackgroundAlphas=100,100&controlsBackgroundColors=eeeeee,eeeeee&controlsBackgroundRatios=0,255&controlsBackgroundRotation=270&controlsBorderColor=212121&controlsBottomPadding=8&controlsButtonLeftBorderColor=c7c7c7&controlsButtonRightBorderColor=656464&controlsHeight=40&controlsOffFaceColor=828282&controlsOverFaceColor=454444&controlsSidePadding=8&defaultStyle=flatlight&disableTransport=false&domId=WNVideoCanvasDEFAULTdivWNVideoCanvas&emailErrorBorderColor=ae1a01&emailErrorMessageFaceColor=ae1a01&emailFormFieldAlphas=80&emailFormFieldColors=dddee0&emailFormFieldRatios=0&emailFormFieldRotation=90&emailInputFaceColor=454444&emailMessageLabelText=&emailPaneLabelText=&emailSentConfirmationMessage=&errorMessage=&fullScreenControlType=none&hasBevel=false&hasBorder=true&hasBottomBorder=true&hasFullScreen=true&hasLeftBorder=true&hasRightBorder=true&hasTopBorder=true&helpPage=http://www.latimes.com/about/site/stv-flash-video-about,0,301457.htmlstory&hostDomain=video.latimes.com&idKey=DEFAULT&imgPath=http://latms.images.worldnow.com/images/static/video/flash/&invalidRecipientFieldMessage=&invalidSenderFieldMessage=&isAutoStart=&isMute=&landingPage=http://www.latimes.com/video/&loadingMessage=&offFaceColor=828282&overFaceColor=454444&overlayBackgroundAlphas=92&overlayBackgroundColors=b6b6b5&overlayBackgroundRatios=0&overlayBackgroundRotation=90&overlayOffFaceColor=454444&overlayOverFaceColor=ffffff&pauseButtonText=&playAtActualSize=0&playButtonText=&playerHeight=321&playerWidth=500&recipientEmailLabelText=&sendEmailButtonText=&senderEmailLabelText=&senderNameLabelText=&shareListItemHighlightBorderColor=ffffff&shareListItemOffFaceColor=828282&shareListItemShadowBorderColor=b1b0b0&shareListListItemOverFaceColor=828282&sidePadding=3&smoothingMode=auto&staticImgPath=http://latms.images.worldnow.com&summaryGraphicMessage=&summaryGraphicScaleStyle=stretchToFit&summaryPaneLabelText=&tabBackgroundAlphas=100,100&tabBackgroundColors=e6e6e6,e6e6e6&tabBackgroundOverAlphas=100,100&tabBackgroundOverColors=eeeeee,eeeeee&tabBackgroundOverRatios=0,100&tabBackgroundRatios=75,255&tabBackgroundRotation=90&tabBackgroundSelectedAlphas=100&tabBackgroundSelectedBorderAlpha=100&tabBackgroundSelectedBorderColor=aaaaaa&tabBackgroundSelectedBorderWidth=1&tabBackgroundSelectedColors=eeeeee&tabBackgroundSelectedHasBevel=false&tabBackgroundSelectedHasBorder=true&tabBackgroundSelectedHasDropShadow=false&tabBackgroundSelectedRatios=0&tabBorderAlpha=100&tabBorderColor=aaaaaa&tabBorderWidth=1&tabFontSize=10&tabHasBevel=false&tabHasBorder=true&tabHasDropShadow=false&tabHeight=26&tabLeftBorderColor=e5e5e5&tabOffFaceColor=828282&tabOverBorderAlpha=100&tabOverBorderWidth=1&tabOverFaceColor=454444&tabOverHasBevel=false&tabOverHasBorder=true&tabRightBorderColor=868686&tabShadowColor=333333&topPadding=3&videoSliderBackgroundColor=cccccc&videoSliderKnobBackgroundAlphas=100,100&videoSliderKnobBackgroundColors=cccccc,cccccc&videoSliderKnobBackgroundRatios=0,255&videoSliderKnobBackgroundRotation=90&videoSliderKnobBorderColor=959495&videoSliderKnobOffFaceColor=444444&videoSliderKnobOverFaceColor=212121&videoSliderKnobShadowColor=5a5a5a&videoSliderLoadIndicatorColor=828282&videoSliderProgressIndicatorColor=454444&volumeSliderOffColor=cccccc&volumeSliderOverColor=828282&"></embed></object></p> <blockquote> <p>Suleman retained Los Angeles publicists Michael Furtney and Joann Killeen on Friday and since then, the agents said they had fielded dozens of interview requests and offers for book, film and television deals. Some media reports have speculated that Suleman might be paid as much as $2 million for an interview, but Furtney said, "The money itself is not the object." <br />"She has her view of her life with her kids as they go down life's highway," he said. "She wants to be sure they are well cared for."</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-octuplets3-2009feb03,0,6983653.story">Octuplets are L.A.'s newest celebrities - Los Angeles Times</a></p> <p><strong><u>Related Reading;</u></strong></p> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2009/02/octuplets-mom-planning-new-career.html"><font size="1">Octuplets' Mom Planning a new Career – Television Child Care Expert</font></a></h4> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2009/01/obsessed-with-having-babies-update-on.html">Obsessed with having babies? Update on the Octuplets Story</a></h6> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:225b9df3-da98-4928-97fd-61227f61a7e3" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Octuplets" rel="tag">Octuplets</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/healthcare" rel="tag">healthcare</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/ethics" rel="tag">ethics</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Kaiser+Permanente" rel="tag">Kaiser Permanente</a></div>

One Million, Two Million, who will get the first interview with the Mother of the Octuplets

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Tom Daschle Withdraws – We Live in a World of Transparency

<p> From the New York Times below, but this does drive home the fact that there’s not much room to hide anymore.  Interesting how we find audit and data trails back when we really want to be the “inquiring minds”, but in other areas that tend to be more related to just the every day tasks of running a <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_v3zjJigoAPE/SYjJ-utSvYI/AAAAAAAAOPg/-ZqG7hVKP6E/s1600-h/image%5B4%5D.png"><img align="right" alt="image" border="0" height="143" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_v3zjJigoAPE/SYjKAEBFDlI/AAAAAAAAOPk/JAkZdIz8HvI/image_thumb%5B2%5D.png?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" width="110" /></a>business or government, we lag a bit.  </p> <p>When it comes right down to the detailed facts about almost anyone today, if you dig far and hard enough, you will find something that you may not like or agree with.  After the last 8 years, ethics and transparency are on the minds of all, and the citizens of the US, along with our leaders really want to know what and what makes up the individuals who will serve.  It’s like trying to find a perfect mate, there is none, just one that you can trust and hopefully through finding out a bit about the past and what they are today along with what baggage they carry with them up front, it will lead to the ultimate healthy selection of our leaders.  <strong>Nobody wants to deal with the unknown,</strong> but if<strong> open and transparent from the start, people can actually be pretty forgiving</strong> if it of course is not something that would threaten our national security or something large along those lines.  </p> <p>So by today’s standards, if you are going to be in the public eye anywhere, be ready for the <strong>“Electronic Spanish Inquisition”.</strong>  BD  </p> <blockquote> <p>In five-paragraph statement, Mr. Obama said:</p> <p>“This morning, Tom Daschle asked me to withdraw his nomination for Secretary of Health and Human Services. I accept his decision with sadness and regret.</p> <p>“Tom Daschle has devoted his life to public service and health care reform, so that every American has access to health care they can afford. I had hoped that he could bring this passion and expertise to bear to finally achieve that goal, which is so essential to the progress of our economy and the well-being of businesses and families across our nation.</p> <p>“Tom made a mistake, which he has openly acknowledged. He has not excused it, nor do I.</p> <p>“But that mistake, and this decision, cannot diminish the many contributions Tom has made to this country, from his years in the military to his decades of public service.</p> <p>“Now we must move forward, with our plan to lift this economy and put people back to work.”</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/03/tom-daschle-withdraws-as-health-nominee/?hp">Tom Daschle Withdraws As Health Nominee - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com</a></p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:a0d1341e-63ba-48f6-82de-e29f50da8568" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Health+and+Human+Services+Secretary" rel="tag">Health and Human Services Secretary</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Obama+Healthcare+Plan" rel="tag">Obama Healthcare Plan</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/HHS" rel="tag">HHS</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/technology" rel="tag">technology</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/audit+trails" rel="tag">audit trails</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/transparency" rel="tag">transparency</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Tom+Daschle" rel="tag">Tom Daschle</a></div>

Tom Daschle Withdraws – We Live in a World of Transparency

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Obama Wants a complete review of the FDA – Add some Technology with Business Intelligence

<p> <strong>Rather than re-write an idea, I’m just going to put part of a prior suggestion I had here.</strong>  The FDA in no way would ever have the budget and manpower to keep on top of every factory not only here but any place where drugs and food are produced that we consume.  </p> <p>Technology is needed to report in to a bank of servers and this is a good idea for all countries for that matter, to report in via the web on the lots of of food or drugs being within tolerance levels for consumption, if not, alerts go out at both ends and an FDA official is alerted to follow up, and would make their enforcement and compliance efforts much more meaningful.<strong>  It comes down to audit tables and business intelligence</strong> for a potential <img align="right" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SIj9P_nkLTI/AAAAAAAAIV8/aMAtC1YcAlA/fda1_thumb%5B2%5D.png?imgmax=800" />solution to help the FDA stay on top of all the issues.  BD</p> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/11/fda-may-need-major-restructuring-catch.html"><em>FDA May Need Major Restructuring – Catch up with Technology</em></a></h6> <p><em>Some issues are a result of still being paper driven as timely reports and real time information are not available, but they are not the only government agency in this scenario, only one of the most critical though.  Also, <strong><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/04/congress-to-industry-need-your-help.html">some members of Congress don’t use computers</a></strong> either and felt uncomfortable about talking about technology, so that adds to the confusion and a few more stuck in the past with understanding where technology needs to be today and what is required with technology to regulate.  It was reported that some key employees were still writing out reports in </em><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/02/study-calling-for-medical-device.html"><em>longhand</em></a><em> too.  </em></p> <p><em>A short time back I added some suggestions using technology and copied below. <u> The FDA does need some technology help to cover all the bases</u> they have today as there is no way in the world they can physically have enough people to cover the world;  it’s not like it was a couple years ago by any means with the number of imported food and drug items increased, and they are feeling the same pinch as many others, except in their case it’s top priority work for all of us and time for some heavy duty Business Intelligence.  BD</em></p> <blockquote> <p><em>FDA is close to being at a tipping point -- the agency is hanging on by its fingertips in protecting us," said William K. Hubbard, who worked for the agency for 27 years. "If something is not done, they could become a failed institution, and no one wants that. The FDA is not only important to protecting the public health but also to the industries it regulates."</em></p> <p><em>Although the FDA has started opening offices overseas to try to better police safety standards at the source, experts say much more needs to be done. For starters, the agency needs to sharply boost inspections abroad, develop strict new regulatory standards, and update and integrate its computer systems, which are woefully antiquated and disjointed, Nielsen and others said. </em></p> <p><em><strong>"It's still largely a paper-driven agency," Nielsen said.</strong> "The agency has great information pigeonholed all over the place, but it cannot be applied in real time, which is what you need today."</em></p> <h4><strong><u>One of my ideas from a prior post:</u></strong></h4> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/11/fda-to-detain-food-shipments-from-china.html"><strong><em>FDA to detain food shipments from China – Why not add some technology to the inspection processes?</em></strong></a></h6> <p><em>I don’t think in view of the current events, there was a lot of choice here for the FDA, and we do need to know that the quality of both our food and pharmaceutical products is good.</em></p> <p><em>One thing in particular that springs to mind for me here here is perhaps <strong>some use of business intelligence for monitoring.</strong>  This is not a cure all for the entire process, but technology can aid and offer some nice assistance here.  A reporting function would need to be set up to automatically<strong> report back to a central agency on criteria established for each drug or food product</strong>.  At the receiving end, anything out of tolerance would be immediately sent to an alert.  Now granted, this should be done locally from every plant, but when you can’t physically have agents in place at every factory all the time, this could offer some real relief and help.</em></p> <p><em>With today’s speed of data transmissions, a server farm could be set up to monitor this type of activity and before an over seas factory began to export to the US, this would be a prerequisite to be established.  <strong>Each lot before packaged would send the chemical content back to the central gathering agency and report in,</strong> with both the US agency and the local factory itself having the information at hand.  </em></p> <p><em><strong>Again, this comes back to adding some new software and algorithms to the process,</strong> but computers could provide this information in a couple of seconds.  <strong>Audit trails would also be there to allow for checking back on submissions.</strong>  A bank of sophisticated server farms could do the work.  This would also tend to build product credibility as well if everyone knows up front that the chemical content was being reported before the end packaging occurs.  Again, not to replace an actual physical inspection all together, but, it would also stand to make those inspections much more information rich and valuable and create safe consumable products.</em></p> <p><em><strong><img align="left" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SEmXRJB3eVI/AAAAAAAAHdk/Mt3vrM50l98/image_thumb%5B2%5D.png?imgmax=800" /> We do so much today by remote transmissions with information reporting, why not put in in place and use it where it is vital.  This could also be done globally too,</strong> with each country receiving reports on products they import from other countries.  It would sure beat some of the guesswork we see out there today, not to mention illnesses and death from products that are tainted or contaminated.  With the global economy changing every day, it makes sense to know what we are getting and it is impossible to physically monitor all the systems without using some modern day technology. </em></p> <p><em>A secondary thought here too is to ensure that all products carry a label showing the city, country, etc. of where the product was manufactured so we don’t  incur the long time delays in figuring out which lot went where,<strong> no more blind shipping documents</strong> as they exist today.  <strong>Wonder why this process has not been considered yet?  BD  </strong></em></p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p><em>Government officials are saying that the peanut plant tied to the recent </em><a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2009/01/20/salmonella-risk-spurs-more-recalls-of-foods-with-peanut-butter/"><em>salmonella outbreak</em></a><em> shipped peanut butter 12 times in the past two years despite finding salmonella in internal tests of the products, this morning’s Washington Post</em><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/27/AR2009012702992.html"><em> reports</em></a><em>.</em></p> <p><em>The government didn’t know about the problem until now because companies don’t have to disclose internal test results, the Post explains. Meantime, the feds also said yesterday that they’d found four strains of salmonella at the Georgia plant, owned by Peanut Corporation of America, and state inspection records show “a pattern of unsanitary conditions over several years,” according to the Post.</em></p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p>The nationwide salmonella outbreak tied to peanut butter and peanut products is hitting a little too close to home for President Obama. </p> <p>Speaking of his 7-year-old daughter on NBC's <i>Today</i> show Monday, he said, "That's what Sasha eats for lunch probably three times a week. And you know, I don't want to have to worry about whether she's going to get sick as a consequence to having her lunch."</p> <p>Obama promised a "complete review" of Food and Drug Administration operations. "I think that the FDA has not been able to catch some of these things as quickly as I expect them to."</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-02-02-peanuts_N.htm">Obama: 'Complete review' of FDA operations - USATODAY.com</a></p> <p></p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:432b0794-6207-4fbf-b879-7d33b6e32c6a" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Healthcare" rel="tag">Healthcare</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/FDA" rel="tag">FDA</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/technology" rel="tag">technology</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Congress" rel="tag">Congress</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Pharma" rel="tag">Pharma</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/food+poisening" rel="tag">food poisening</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/contaminated+food" rel="tag">contaminated food</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/FDA+audit+trails" rel="tag">FDA audit trails</a></div>

Obama Wants a complete review of the FDA – Add some Technology with Business Intelligence

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Octuplets' Mom Planning a new Career – Television Child Care Expert

<p> It sounds like opportunity is knocking for the woman who had the octuplets and offers are rolling in to the effect that she now has secured a public relations company to sift through everything.  Just guessing, I’m thinking the Oprah show could be a first stop after resting and getting ready for the new career.  One thing for sure, the income for raising the children certainly couldn’t hurt it appears.   I can’t see Dr. Phil missing out at all here.  (grin).</p> <p>The downside of all of this though is the search for the unnamed fertility specialists who gave her in vitro fertilization.  The article states that all her children were via in vitro, even before the octuplets, her 6 other children too.  <a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_v3zjJigoAPE/SYfGw9cIZHI/AAAAAAAAOPY/mS7zAe4KlQ0/s1600-h/image%5B3%5D.png"><img align="right" alt="image" border="0" height="122" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_v3zjJigoAPE/SYfGxn4iXII/AAAAAAAAOPc/lIYLzGYY03A/image_thumb%5B1%5D.png?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" width="106" /></a> BD  </p> <blockquote> <p>Nadya Suleman, 33, plans a career as a television childcare expert. It was learned last week that she already had six children before giving birth to eight more. She now has 14 children younger than 8 years old.</p> <p>Although still confined to a Los Angeles hospital bed, Suleman reportedly intends to talk to two influential television hosts this week — media mogul Oprah Winfrey and Diane Sawyer.</p> <p>Her family has told agents she needs cash from media deals.  On Friday she retained the Killeen Furtney Group public relations firm to handle what company President Joann Killeen says are hundreds of offers arriving daily. They include requests for paid interviews, TV show appearances, book deals and other opportunities.</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,486645,00.html">FOXNews.com - Octuplets' Mom Wants $2 Million From Oprah, Media Deals - Health News | Current Health News | Medical News</a></p> <p><strong><u>Related Reading:</u></strong></p> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2009/01/obsessed-with-having-babies-update-on.html"><font size="1">Obsessed with having babies? Update on the Octuplets Story</font></a></h4> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:99e3aa42-b31e-41c6-a634-ebd4f7831d38" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Octuplets" rel="tag">Octuplets</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/healthcare" rel="tag">healthcare</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/ethics" rel="tag">ethics</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Kaiser+Permanente" rel="tag">Kaiser Permanente</a></div>

Octuplets' Mom Planning a new Career – Television Child Care Expert

It sounds like opportunity is knocking for the woman who had the octuplets and offers are rolling in to the effect that she now has secured...

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Regenerative Medicine – Material and Cell Based Regeneration of the Human Body

<p>Fascinating video and worth watching to see the advances in science and clinical procedures on regenerating parts of the body and so much of this technology is here and available today.  Watching the foot of a woman with a diabetes open sore that won’t heal and seeing what regeneration has done versus an amputation is remarkable when you see the before and after pictures.  </p> <p><u>Material Induced Regeneration</u> – growing the end of a finger back, and here’s a post from May of this year discussing the same process.  </p> <p><strong><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/05/biomagic-dust-regrows-man-lopped-off.html">From a post in May 2008…</a></strong></p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SBnmQS6ALrI/AAAAAAAAGC8/rHEvWM76SyU/s1600-h/image%5B3%5D.png"><img align="left" alt="image" border="0" height="76" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SBnmSS6ALsI/AAAAAAAAGDE/1gJqO6vreFI/image_thumb%5B1%5D.png?imgmax=800" style="display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px" width="121" /></a></p> <p><em><font size="1">A certain 69 year old Lee Spievak lost half an inch of finger to an aggressive model plane blade, and doctors had little hope for the appendage. Lucky for Lee, his brother Alan works in the field of regenerative medicine, and sent him some powder (which lee calls "pixie dust") to apply to the finger. <strong>Four weeks later Lee had grown back the entire finger, as good as new. The pixie dust is actually  modified cells scraped from the lining of a pig's bladder cleaned into a general-purpose tissue generator -- </strong>the <strong>cells basically tell the body to grow instead of scar.</strong> Doctors have high hopes for the cells, for everything from amputees to burn victims to cancer patients</font></em></p> <p><em><font size="1"></font></em></p> <p><font size="2"><u>Screenshot from the video….</u></font></p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_v3zjJigoAPE/SYe-qgcO7sI/AAAAAAAAOPQ/o6ZxaAsT92E/s1600-h/image%5B3%5D.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="115" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_v3zjJigoAPE/SYe-sHvyRcI/AAAAAAAAOPU/ZTg51pp2rm8/image_thumb%5B1%5D.png?imgmax=800" style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="image" width="166" /></a></p> <p><u>Cell Based Regeneration</u> – Injecting Stem Cells into a beating heart - Minimally Invasive Cellular Cure for Heart Failure</p> <iframe height="301" src="http://ted.tv.magnify.net/embed/content/GY7C8S8QWRYJRQ9J" frameborder="0" width="320" allowtransparency="allowtransparency" scrolling="no"></iframe> <p>Liposuction fluid is a great source of stem cells, so no more throwing it away, not quite ready for prime time yet, but getting very close.  Russell talks about focusing with research in the US and hopefully with the new administration this will come to fruition and accelerate the processes to get the care to patients.  Very candid remarks about his talk with the NIH as well.  BD    </p> <p><a href="http://ted.tv.magnify.net/video/Alan-Russell-regenerative-medic">http://ted.tv.magnify.net/video/Alan-Russell-regenerative-medic</a></p> <p><strong><u>Related Reading:</u></strong></p> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/05/biomagic-dust-regrows-man-lopped-off.html"><font size="1">Biomagic "pixie dust" regrows man's lopped-off finger</font></a></h4> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:85b5fee2-3ef3-43a2-85af-bfc2d9ccdbb3" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Regenerative+Medicine" rel="tag">Regenerative Medicine</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/heatlhcare" rel="tag">heatlhcare</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Stem+Cells" rel="tag">Stem Cells</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/liposuction" rel="tag">liposuction</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Science" rel="tag">Science</a></div>

Regenerative Medicine – Material and Cell Based Regeneration of the Human Body

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The Duck family tree…

<p>I’m still looking to see where I am here…BD</p> <p> <a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_v3zjJigoAPE/SYepQEMcDzI/AAAAAAAAOPI/pN6zIQsL7Tw/s1600-h/image%5B3%5D.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="215" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_v3zjJigoAPE/SYepSBz3u5I/AAAAAAAAOPM/V8Nmdh4wWaI/image_thumb%5B1%5D.png?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" width="391" /></a> </p> <p><a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2009/02/02/disney-duck-family-t.html">Disney duck family tree - Boing Boing</a></p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:becbd09b-d2c3-4896-ba55-19ea5a886225" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Medical+Quack" rel="tag">Medical Quack</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Ducks" rel="tag">Ducks</a></div>

The Duck family tree…

I’m still looking to see where I am here…BD   Disney duck family tree - Boing Boing Technorati Tags: Medical Quack , Ducks

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The Danny Fund – Research and Development To Find the cure for Melanoma

<p>  As seen on the Super bowl, Bruce Springsteen speaking out with his support to find the cure for Melanoma, skin cancer after the loss of his friend and band member, Danny Federici,  this year to melanoma.   There are a couple free songs available for download a well.  </p> <p><a href="http://www.melanomaresearchalliance.org/about_melanoma/experts/"><img align="left" alt="image" border="0" height="51" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_v3zjJigoAPE/SYeUUkfuYiI/AAAAAAAAOO8/q9GOZaM7R8c/image%5B17%5D.png?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" width="167" /></a><a href="http://www.dannyfund.org/downloads/"><img align="right" alt="image" border="0" height="116" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_v3zjJigoAPE/SYeUWCQO2xI/AAAAAAAAOPA/3f75pbNWqhk/image%5B19%5D.png?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" width="130" /></a>Below is an excerpt from one of the pages about the Federici.  Additional cancer information is available from the<strong> <a href="http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/44.cfm">Sloan- Kettering Cancer Center</a></strong> where you can read and find out more information about all types of cancer.  Donations can be made at the link below.  The research will be based on genetic studies and the project will be attempting to predict responses to chemotherapy with the study of 4 genes, personalized medicine for cancer and the first study of it’s type with melanoma.  BD  </p> <blockquote> <p>After seeing the outpouring of support following Danny's death, Bruce Springsteen, the E Street Band, Danny's family and Dr. Chapman decided Danny's vision could make an even greater impact. Together with Debra and Leon Black, founders of the Melanoma Research Alliance (MRA) they created the Danny Fund to bring melanoma to the forefront of public awareness and to fund research with top melanoma doctors from around the world.</p> <p><em>“During the 1990s, Federici recorded a solo album of jazz instrumentals called "Flemington," after his hometown of Flemington, New Jersey. Danny followed this up with a smooth jazz album entitled "Out of a Dream" on V2 Records in 2005.  </em></p> <p><em>On November 21, 2007, it was announced that Federici would take a leave of absence from Springsteen and the E Street Band's ongoing Magic Tour to pursue treatment for melanoma. Springsteen stated at the time, "Danny is one of the pillars of our sound and has played beside me as a great friend for more than 40 years. We all eagerly <a href="http://www.dannyfund.org/downloads/"><img align="left" alt="image" border="0" height="87" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_v3zjJigoAPE/SYeUXNX5SkI/AAAAAAAAOPE/XLtvPYo5aow/image%5B18%5D.png?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" width="108" /></a>await his healthy and speedy return."  </em></p> <p><em>Federici made his return to the stage on March 20, 2008, when he appeared for portions of a very memorable Springsteen and E Street Band performance in Indianapolis that got rave reviews. </em><a href="http://www.dannyfund.org/about/last/"><em>See "Dad's last show"</em></a>”</p> <p>Danny lost his battle to melanoma on April 17th, 2008. </p> </blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.dannyfund.org/">Danny Fund</a></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:2f92068e-c56e-423f-bd9f-24566aaee1b9" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/melanoma" rel="tag">melanoma</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/skin+cancer" rel="tag">skin cancer</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/heatlhcare" rel="tag">heatlhcare</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Bruce+Springsteen" rel="tag">Bruce Springsteen</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/R+and+D" rel="tag">R and D</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/genomics" rel="tag">genomics</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/personalized+medicine" rel="tag">personalized medicine</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/cancer" rel="tag">cancer</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/E+Street+Band" rel="tag">E Street Band</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Lemanoma+Research+Alliance" rel="tag">Lemanoma Research Alliance</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Danny+Fund" rel="tag">Danny Fund</a></div>

The Danny Fund – Research and Development To Find the cure for Melanoma

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The Next Robot in Healthcare – The robotic Scientist

<p> This is the next human to replaced by a robot.  Visit the links below to view the video and see how “Eve”works, algorithms and data mining make it happen.  BD  </p> <blockquote> <p>A robot scientist that can make informed guesses about how effective different chemical compounds will be at fighting different <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_v3zjJigoAPE/SYeKJ7UKOXI/AAAAAAAAOO0/VWzyP6CpF0Q/s1600-h/image%5B4%5D.png"><img align="right" alt="image" border="0" height="122" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_v3zjJigoAPE/SYeKLVw1UQI/AAAAAAAAOO4/kERk9NwN7p8/image_thumb%5B2%5D.png?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" width="164" /></a>diseases could revolutionize the pharmaceutical industry by developing more effective treatments more cheaply and quickly than current methods.  <br />The robot, known as Eve, uses advanced artificial intelligence combined with innovative data mining and knowledge discovery techniques to analyze the results of pharmacological experiments it conducts itself. </p> </blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news152809419.html">Data mining promises to dig up new drugs</a></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p>Source:  <a href="http://cordis.europa.eu/ictresults">http://cordis.europa.eu/ictresults</a></p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:5116367e-03c8-4673-a487-e4156fa33d59" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/healthcare" rel="tag">healthcare</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/robotics" rel="tag">robotics</a></div>

The Next Robot in Healthcare – The robotic Scientist

This is the next human to replaced by a robot.  Visit the links below to view the video and see how “Eve”works, algorithms and data mining ...

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The Ever Changing and Evolving Role of the Pharmacist

<p> One of the ways hospitals are focusing on medical errors is expanding the role of the pharmacist.  Drug stores by history had paid more than pharmacists at hospitals earned but the gap is getting closer there as well.  You also find pharmacists working with biotech companies today with <a href="http://www.nationalerx.com/"><img align="right" height="136" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SIUlhrf9kAI/AAAAAAAAITk/MeAOe4wvJW8/image%5B6%5D.png?imgmax=800" style="display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px" width="212" /></a>research and development with drugs and treatment plans.  </p> <p>Drug therapy is becoming more complicated not only for the physician, but also for the pharmacist, in other words it comes around to teamwork and some highly effective software programs to manage and keep everything together.  The pharmacists that work in the drug stores are probably some of the best skilled in this area as they work with software systems day in and day out, just fill prescriptions and having to read illegible handwriting at times, but responsible for getting the medication and dosage correct, one big reason they are proponents of e-prescribing as well.  </p> <p>Speaking of e-prescribing, there is a link on this site any physician can use to sign up for the free NEPSI program if you do not have an electronic medical record system that is handling it, and there’s the 2% bonus pay for Medicare by using an e-prescribing program.  BD  </p> <blockquote> <p>Hospital-based pharmacists typically work in two areas: in-house pharmacies where prescriptions are filled for patients; or alongside doctors and nurses in clinical rotations, helping to treat patients at their bedsides. </p> <p><strong>With drug treatments becoming more complicated and pharmacists getting more involved with patient care, the demand for them has grown, prompting more competition for new graduates.</strong> </p> <p>"Pharmacists are spending much more of their time working with patients to prevent medicine-related problems," said Ed Szandzik, director of pharmacy at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. That demand is driven by changes in insurance policies, such as the creation of Medicare Part D in 2006, that have made prescription drugs more affordable, Szandzik said. </p> <p>At the same time, many hospitals are implementing programs that give pharmacists greater oversight in monitoring for drug errors, an effort that could be compromised if they're not able to fill staff positions, said Caroline Gaither, an associate professor of social and administrative sciences at the University of Michigan, who has studied work force supply among pharmacist</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090202/BIZ/902020351/1040/LIFESTYLE03">Metro Detroit medical centers struggling | detnews.com | The Detroit News</a></p> <p><strong><u>Related Reading:</u></strong></p> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2009/01/best-careers-2009-pharmacist-job.html"><font size="1">Best Careers 2009: Pharmacist Job Description</font></a></h4> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:e211af40-e1cf-4e7e-a7b0-fda1f4717459" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Pharmacist" rel="tag">Pharmacist</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/hospital" rel="tag">hospital</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/heatlhcare" rel="tag">heatlhcare</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/drugs" rel="tag">drugs</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/prescriptions" rel="tag">prescriptions</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/patients" rel="tag">patients</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/doctors" rel="tag">doctors</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/e-prescribing" rel="tag">e-prescribing</a></div>

The Ever Changing and Evolving Role of the Pharmacist

One of the ways hospitals are focusing on medical errors is expanding the role of the pharmacist.  Drug stores by history had paid more tha...

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PHRs a comparison and opinions

<p> This is an interesting article that in the long run focuses on interoperability for Personal Health Records. When you compare side by side, there are pros and cons for both <strong>Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault.</strong> Who knows some day the 2 might even talk to each other as well, which may not be that far fetched when you stop and think about how browsers work, in other words how Google works in the Internet Explorer, etc., so it’s something that could come to pass someday.</p> <p>There’s also a recommendation for both to look at for suggestions as to what could be added for ease of use and what the consumers had to offer with advice from a company called <a href="http://www.usercentric.com/publications/2009/01/phr-recommendations/">UserCentric.</a> One thing that was nice though is that <strong>UserCentric actually sat down and had people work with the PHRs,</strong> unlike so many of the posts on the internet today where<strong> we read opinions and what selected leadership folks in different areas believe, but find out they themselves have never opened a PHR account nor used one,</strong> so hats off for their comparison and taking the time to<strong> actually use and evaluate the PHRs.</strong> </p> <p>The one item I found somewhat <strong>not addressed though is the integration both have with vendors, in other words the focus on the analysis was on entering data manually, when the big advantage of both PHRs is to integrate and get away from the manual entering of data,</strong> which is what we all want, credible data to share. Having the information populated for you is the big key to the entire matter. I would much rather have the drug stores where I get my prescriptions filled do the work with a couple clicks rather than to sit down and try to remember everything off the top of my head, or hook up my glucose machine via usb and have it all done automatically,<strong> no manual typing on a keyboard.</strong> </p> <p>Working with <strong>Open Health Tools</strong> as mentioned below too is not a bad idea either, as we need the PHRs to work with EHRS as well, so getting back to the integration process, the records in the EHR from your doctor can populate your PHR too. We’re getting there, we have medications, medical devices and more already working with PHRs, so in time it will come full circle, as mentioned, it’s in the code, smart programmers can do a lot when they get their hands on the “code”. Some hospitals are already set up to work with the PHRs as well. BD </p> <p><a href="https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=health&nui=1&continue=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fhealth%2Fp%2F&followup=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fhealth%2Fp%2F&rm=hide"><img height="38" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SGRPjPR9NVI/AAAAAAAAH30/dA55nv_qrf4/googlehealth%5B1%5D.png?imgmax=800" width="95" /></a> <a href="http://www.healthvault.com/"><img height="40" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SM3q6TdZm-I/AAAAAAAAI90/u04OgRqDvPI/image%5B14%5D.png?imgmax=800" width="96" /></a></p> <blockquote> <p>A PHR has to do many different things for many people. It must be able to take in data cleanly and seamlessly, sometimes automatically. That requires interfaces with hospital records, and with a host of consumer devices. It may also require taking input from alternative therapists, like chiropractors.</p> <p>So I think it’s vital that the code be accessible by all the many stakeholders in this process, and that compatibility be assured. There is a long road ahead. The company which can manage this process best is going to win the market.</p> <p>In this effort both Microsoft and Google have real assets to offer. So here’s my final idea. The first of these to get their code, and their ecosystem, integrated with <a href="http://www.openhealthtools.org/">Open Health Tools </a>is going to have a big advantage in this space.</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="http://healthcare.zdnet.com/?p=1742">» PHRs are operating systems | ZDNet Healthcare | ZDNet.com</a></p> <p><strong><u>Related Reading:</u></strong></p> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/12/education-not-fear-is-needed-with.html">Education not Fear is Needed with Medical Health Records</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/10/bringing-providers-health-care.html">Bringing Providers, Health Care Executives and Administrators into the 21st Century</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/11/personal-health-records-whos-in-know.html">Personal Health Records – Who’s in the Know and Who has one?</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/11/why-use-phr-because-it-is-there-and-it.html">Why Use a PHR – Because It is there and it stands to help decrease medical errors</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/11/social-security-likes-phrs-too-wanting.html">Social Security likes PHRs too – wanting to work with EMR and PHR software with pilot program</a></h6> <p></p> <div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline; float: none;" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:972210cc-815e-4d92-aaf3-edf5b62d45fe" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/PHR" rel="tag">PHR</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Personal+Health+Records" rel="tag">Personal Health Records</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Education" rel="tag">Education</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Healthcare" rel="tag">Healthcare</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Congress" rel="tag">Congress</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Stimulis" rel="tag">Stimulis</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/healthcare" rel="tag">healthcare</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/EHR" rel="tag">EHR</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/interoperability" rel="tag">interoperability</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Google+Health" rel="tag">Google Health</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/HealthVault" rel="tag">HealthVault</a></div>

PHRs a comparison and opinions

This is an interesting article that in the long run focuses on interoperability for Personal Health Records. When you compare side by side...

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Government Accounting Office says DOD and VA need better strategic planning for EHR Interoperability

<p> Part of the issue appears to be with staffing according to this article as key positions for the director and deputy director, or 22 of 30 other positions identified for the office have not been filled.  The VA an DOD agreed with the assessment and are working on getting their plans management capabilities together.  </p> <p>DOD and the VA have jumped right in there to get integration going as <a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/12/dod-and-va-take-lead-in-health-record.html">posted back in December</a>, but perhaps some additional business intelligence is needed to get the entire project to come together.  BD  </p> <blockquote> <p>WASHINGTON – The Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs healthcare information data-sharing project – often held out as an example of two powerhouse health information networks becoming interoperable – was given a warning this week by the <a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_v3zjJigoAPE/SYc9TEDfgVI/AAAAAAAAOOs/zIRwmgbbCDA/s1600-h/image%5B4%5D.png"><img align="right" alt="image" border="0" height="102" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_v3zjJigoAPE/SYc9UBcBkaI/AAAAAAAAOOw/ngVREPZGCxo/image_thumb%5B2%5D.png?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" width="110" /></a> Government Accountability Office.</p> <p>A GAO report, written for the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, said the project needs better strategic management and budgeting for the sharing of long-term care information.</p> <p>By law, the DOD and VA are required to accelerate the exchange of health information between their departments and develop systems or capabilities that allow for interoperability and are compliant with federal standards. </p> <p>However, "neither plan identifies results-oriented performance goals and measures that are characteristic of effective planning and can be used as a basis to track and assess progress toward the delivery of new interoperable capabilities," the report said. "In the absence of results-oriented goals and performance measures, the departments are not positioned to adequately assess progress toward increasing interoperability."</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/gao-says-dod-and-va-data-sharing-lacks-planning">Industry News | Healthcare IT News</a></p> <p><strong><u>Related Reading:</u></strong></p> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/12/dod-and-va-take-lead-in-health-record.html"><font size="1">DOD and the VA take lead in health-record sharing</font></a></h4> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/11/department-of-defense-and-va-to-migrate.html"><font size="1">Department of Defense and VA to migrate health records</font></a></h4> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/09/department-of-defense-and-va-to.html">Department of Defense and VA to Exchange Trauma Data – Medical Records</a></h6> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/12/department-of-defense-launches-personal.html"><font size="1">Department of Defense Launches Personal Health Record Pilot – MiCare to Integrate with Google Health and HealthVault</font></a></h4> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/09/kaiser-permanente-and-veterans-affairs.html">Kaiser Permanente And Veterans Affairs Preview Electronic Health Record Interoperability</a></h6> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/12/malware-attack-department-of-defense.html"><font size="1">Malware attack - Department of Defense</font></a></h4> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/11/are-electronic-and-personal-health.html"><font size="1">Are electronic and personal health records inevitable? – Sure they are but we need education and mentors to make it work!</font></a></h4> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:c07bd826-991a-4aeb-a35a-343d86a4e591" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Government+Accounting+Office" rel="tag">Government Accounting Office</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/DOD" rel="tag">DOD</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/and+VA" rel="tag">and VA</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/interoperability" rel="tag">interoperability</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/medical+records" rel="tag">medical records</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/EHR" rel="tag">EHR</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/integration" rel="tag">integration</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/PHR" rel="tag">PHR</a></div>

Government Accounting Office says DOD and VA need better strategic planning for EHR Interoperability

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Cook Medical Announced the new Strategic Business Unit – Interventional Radiology

<p><strong><u>Interview and Press Release</u></strong></p> <p>This week I had the opportunity to talk with Dan Sirota in conjunction with the press release today (below). Dan is the global leader of the new Interventional Radiology Strategic Business Unit (SBU) at <strong><a href="http://www.cookmedical.com/home.do">Cook Medical.</a></strong> Cook Medical is no stranger to the Medical Quack (related reading) and for a little background information, Cook is a privately owned company, started in 1963 by Bill Cook. Dan has been with Cook Medical for many years prior to being selected to head up the new SBU. <a href="http://www.cookmedical.com/home.do"><img align="right" alt="clip_image002" border="0" height="91" hspace="12" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_v3zjJigoAPE/SYc4TJE0bII/AAAAAAAAOOk/rbSIcmvX7qw/clip_image0025.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-width: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" title="clip_image002" width="136" /></a></p> <p>Cook Medical has an extensive line of aortic intervention, critical care, endoscopy, surgery and urology products. The new SBU will also offer support to the other entities as well. </p> <p>I asked Dan, what is an <a href="http://www.sirweb.org/patients/">Interventional Radiologist</a> as this was a term new to myself as well. He stated they are one of the best kept secrets in healthcare. The Interventional Radiologist is board-certified physicians who specialize in minimally invasive, targeted treatments. For example, they use imaging to advance catheters through our bodies, thus offer us, the patients alternatives to major surgeries with the techniques developed. </p> <p>The new business unit at Cook Medical is set up to work with and support many of the procedures <strong>interventional radiologists</strong> perform. As mentioned above, Cook Medical has a vast array of products that are currently used with minimally invasive procedures and the new SBU will stand to not only promote the product use, but Cook will be working with the physicians to attain feedback, ideas, etc. to stay connected and keep on top of what the procedures require and develop new or present products and technologies to meet those needs. </p> <p>In this support effort, one big area of focus is with <strong>cancer treatments,</strong> especially in the area of performing biopsies. A biopsy can be done using minimally invasive techniques as well, with the needles going right through the skin surface, and again avoiding the need for an incision. This is where the talent and skill of both the Interventional Radiologist and the products come together, and the patient is a winner as well as there is less chances of infection and of course no incision to heal. The Interventional Radiologist is also able to perform procedures that can kill cancer tissue without disturbing the surrounding healthy tissue. </p> <p>Dan also stated there are products from Cook that are used to drain fluid from lungs, again with a minimally invasive procedure. Another area of focus with the group is working with chemotherapists with further development of catheters to deliver medications. This process also involves a close working relationship with pharmaceutical companies to ensure safety and a proper delivery system. Cook Medical Systems provides the medical devices to work with the software systems used by the Interventional Radiologist.</p> <p>By creating the the SBU, Cook Medical has made a full commitment to not only be a major supplier to hospitals all over the world, but to also engage in research and studies to assure a solid collaboration of efforts for the effective advancement of healthcare and devices required as the field continues to grow. To view a sample of procedures that are accomplished with minimally invasive procedures, the <a href="http://www.sirweb.org/">Society of Interventional Radiologists</a> has a <a href="http://www.sirweb.org/news/videoClips.shtml">page on the website</a> that contains videos and additional information. I thank Dan for taking a few minutes out to explain and describe the new business unit today and the accompanying press release can be viewed below. BD </p> <p></p> <p> </p> <p><u>Press Release from Cook Medical:</u><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_v3zjJigoAPE/SYc4UJ040rI/AAAAAAAAOOo/Tzs9fn6mx68/s1600-h/clip_image0023.jpg"></a></p> <p><b>Cook Medical Launches New Interventional Radiology Business Unit to Further Advance Fundamental and Critical Field of Medical Care</b></p> <p><i>New division demonstrates Cook’s unwavering commitment to interventional radiologists</i></p> <p><b>Bloomington</b><b>, IN</b><b> – February 2, 2009 – </b>Committed to broadening and reinvigorating the field of interventional radiology, <a href="http://www.cookmedical.com/home.do">Cook Medical</a> today launches its Interventional Radiology Strategic Business Unit (SBU), which will support interventional radiologists who now perform many oncology, non-vascular and venous procedures in addition to angiographic procedures. The new SBU is dedicated to advancing the field of interventional radiology through significant investments in the development of new medical devices and technologies, which will empower and enable interventional radiologists to improve patient outcomes with skills and procedures best performed in interventional radiology labs.</p> <p>The field of interventional radiology, which Cook has strongly supported since its inception in the 1960s, has been at the forefront of the medical community in the movement towards image guided, minimally invasive procedures. These procedures have revolutionized medicine by diminishing the need for open surgeries, thereby reducing pain, complication rates and recovery times for patients, while at the same time saving hospitals millions of dollars annually. However, in many cases, interventional radiology is still underutilized around the world. Procedures done in interventional radiology labs have been shown to be more cost-effective and beneficial to patients.</p> <p>Additionally as the life expectancy of the world’s population continues to rise, cancer is expected to be the number one killer in adults by 2010, according to the World Health Organization. This trend further elevates the importance of interventional radiology technologies, which can utilize embolization, localized delivery of chemotherapy, ablative techniques and other strategies to treat cancer.</p> <p><b></b></p> <p>"As life expectancies expand and the number of minimally invasive procedures continue to grow, interventional radiologists are becoming an even more integral part of the diagnosis, treatment and management of diseases,” noted John A. Kaufman, M.D., professor of interventional radiology, Dotter Interventional Institute at Oregon Health & Science University and president of the <a href="http://www.sirweb.org/">Society of Interventional Radiology</a> (SIR). “The SIR is pleased that Cook has made this commitment to interventional radiology and we look forward to working with them to advance this critical field of medicine.” </p> <p>As part of an ongoing effort to expand its comprehensive offering of diagnostic and interventional devices, Cook’s Interventional Radiology SBU brings a new level of dedication and focus to a dynamic market that has consistently been on the cutting edge of medicine for the past 30 years. The Interventional Radiology SBU will be launching a number of new medical devices in 2009.</p> <p><b></b></p> <p>“Cook Medical was one of the first U.S. companies to support interventional radiology as a medical practice in 1963 and we’re proud to be able to offer them a comprehensive suite of products and a dedicated division focused on helping to advance this medical field,” said Dan Sirota, global business leader of Cook Medical’s Interventional Radiology SBU. “The launch of Cook’s Interventional Radiology SBU leverages 46 years of medical device experience, a global manufacturing presence and an unwavering dedication to improving the quality of care for patients.”</p> <p><b> <br />About Cook Medical:</b></p> <p>Cook Medical was one of the first companies to help popularize interventional medicine, pioneering many of the devices now commonly used worldwide to perform minimally invasive medical procedures. Today, the company integrates device design, biopharma, gene and cell therapy and biotech to enhance patient safety and improve clinical outcomes in the fields of aortic intervention; interventional cardiology; critical care medicine; gastroenterology; radiology<b>, </b>peripheral vascular, bone access and oncology; surgery and soft tissue repair; urology; and assisted reproductive technology, gynecology and high-risk obstetrics.<b> </b>Cook is a past winner of the prestigious Medical Device Manufacturer of the Year Award from <i>Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry</i> magazine. For more information, visit <a href="http://www.cookmedical.com/">www.cookmedical.com</a>.</p> <p>###</p> <p><b>Media Contacts:</b> <br />Marsha Dawes </p> <p>Public Relations Coordinator, Cook Medical <br />812-339-2235, ext. 2750 </p> <p><strong><u>Related Reading – Cook Medical</u></strong></p> <p></p> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2009/01/cook-medical-unveils-microwires-to.html"><span style="font-size:78%;">Cook Medical Unveils MicroWires to support Leg Therapy - Peripheral Arterial Disease</span></a></h4> <p><b><span style="color: rgb(102, 153, 102);font-size:78%;" ></span></b></p> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/12/interview-with-bart-e-muhs-md-yale.html"><span style="font-size:78%;">Interview with Bart E. 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Cook Medical Announced the new Strategic Business Unit – Interventional Radiology

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Twitter – Find FDA Recalls Quickly

<p> Good article here on how to keep up with the growing number of alerts from the FDA on which products are being recalled, especially with the peanut butter issue.  You might want to follow, I have for the last couple weeks and the updates are released as they come out.  BD  </p> <blockquote> <p>It would be impossible for you not to have heard that there has been a problem with peanuts that were processed at a particular plant in Georgia, resulting in a salmonella outbreak nationwide.   The  sheer number and volume of product recalls as a result is nothing short of astonishing - from diet foods to dog foods.  The FDA has provided a <a href="http://www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/hottopics/salmonellatyph.html">very thorough page</a> that contains the latest recalls and other resources.</p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_v3zjJigoAPE/SYcwUvpMW6I/AAAAAAAAOOc/9w_cJJNXfVM/s1600-h/image%5B3%5D.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="298" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_v3zjJigoAPE/SYcwW4tjAhI/AAAAAAAAOOg/dVDrUTOsPB8/image_thumb%5B1%5D.png?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" width="329" /></a> </p> </blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.eyeonfda.com/eye_on_fda/2009/02/twitter-communications-in-a-time-of-crisis-the-great-peanut-recall.html">Eye on FDA: Twitter Communications in a Time of Crisis - The Great Peanut Recall</a></p> <p></p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:91114488-3a87-4aa4-8098-6ce2ed051153" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/FDA" rel="tag">FDA</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/FDA+recalls" rel="tag">FDA recalls</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Penaut+butter" rel="tag">Penaut butter</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/healthcare" rel="tag">healthcare</a></div>

Twitter – Find FDA Recalls Quickly

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How Safe are RFIDs with Passports – Non Encrypted Information could be available for identify theft

<p> This is an interesting video questioning the use of RFID technology for passports.  One thing that appears beneficial from the video is that the hacker appears to be a “white hat” hacker, in other words bringing about an awareness.  With healthcare and identifying individuals with RFID this just raises a few questions.  The passports supposedly are in a case which is supposed to prevent the ID information from being stolen, but when you watch the video it leaves a few questions as you see him in action.  </p> <p>RFID technology is great for tracking equipment in hospitals and other places, but again after watching the video there are a few questions raised here about using RFID for identity,  and it didn’t cost him that much to build the technology.  He also talks about how it can be matched to a credit card once the unique identification number is acquired.  Last year I had <strong><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/03/rfid-credit-cards-easily-hacked-with-8.html">another post</a></strong> about a hacker getting credit card information with a device he bought on E-bay for $8.00.  It does present some questions as to the concept of widely using RFID to track individuals.  We all certainly welcome the convenience, but want to be sure our privacy is protected too.  BD  </p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:4a1e2d79-3144-447c-9db4-11697bf8b6c0" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent"><div id="4da676a0-0849-4408-9fc8-fc736cbabdf1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9isKnDiJNPk&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" target="_new"><img alt="" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('4da676a0-0849-4408-9fc8-fc736cbabdf1'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = "<div><object width=\"338\" height=\"253\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/9isKnDiJNPk&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1&hl=en\"><\/param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/9isKnDiJNPk&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1&hl=en\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"338\" height=\"253\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>";" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_v3zjJigoAPE/SYcs2j5OSAI/AAAAAAAAOOY/X5mFfodN3Gg/video9b7c545ea3d5%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-style: none"></a></div></div></div> <blockquote> <p>Using inexpensive off-the-shelf components, an information security expert has built a mobile platform that can clone large numbers of the unique electronic identifiers used in US passport cards and next generation drivers licenses.</p> <p>The $250 proof-of-concept device - which researcher Chris Paget built in his spare time - operates out of his vehicle and contains everything needed to sniff and then clone RFID, or radio frequency identification, tags. During a recent 20-minute drive in downtown San Francisco, it successfully copied the RFID tags of two passport cards without the knowledge of their owners.</p> <p>He plans to release the software's source code during a demonstration at the <a href="http://www.shmoocon.org/">Shmoocon hacker convention</a> to be held later this month in Washington.</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/02/low_cost_rfid_cloner/">Passport RFIDs cloned wholesale by $250 eBay auction spree • The Register</a></p> <p><strong><u>Related Reading:</u></strong></p> <h4><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/01/electronic-passports-raise-privacy.html">Electronic Passports Raise Privacy Issues</a></h4> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:678a3bf1-5073-4fab-85a5-fb48a187850e" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/RFID+Passports" rel="tag">RFID Passports</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/technology" rel="tag">technology</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/RFID+Tags" rel="tag">RFID Tags</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/healthcare" rel="tag">healthcare</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/identity+theft" rel="tag">identity theft</a></div>

How Safe are RFIDs with Passports – Non Encrypted Information could be available for identify theft

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Surgeon accumulated 124 Malpractice cases in 7 months – Whistleblowers expose devices not approved by the FDA

<p> The hospital paid out over 100 million to settle the cases and now additional previously sealed whistleblower complaint filed against EBI Inc. are up on the block filed by 8 patients to seek money to be returned to the government, although they will stand to get one quarter of the payout.  <img align="right" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/DucknetServices/SOPyB0WQgJI/AAAAAAAAJO4/63rZ-GnM3ZQ/image_thumb%5B1%5D.png?imgmax=800" /></p> <p><em>“Wright Medical Technology Inc. based in Arlington, Tenn., made Allomatrix, a bone fusion material that failed to work properly during two experimental studies performed on rats and rabbits. A third study, using pig-tailed macaques, rare primates native to Southeast Asia, showed "questionable" benefits. </em></p> <p><em>EBI Inc., a subsidiary of Biomet Inc. in Parsippany, N.J., made spine stimulating devices King used during his surgeries. EBI allegedly paid King a bonus each time he inserted one of their "Ionic Spacers" into a patient's spine.”</em></p> <p>Patients were never informed they would be receiving an experimental device and there appears no consent forms were signed and the suit is also investigating kickbacks given to the surgeon and there was no investigational device exemption from the FDA for the spacers used in the spinal surgeries.  The surgeon lost his medical license and his location now is not known and the physician’s assistant is also named in the case.  You wonder how this was able to get by the hospital administration in not following clinical trial processes.  BD  </p> <blockquote> <p>A whistleblower complaint accuses former osteopathic surgeon Dr. John A. King of experimenting on 26 of his patients. </p> <p>The federal complaint says King used medical devices in ways that hadn't been approved by the FDA and received illegal kickbacks for doing it.</p> <p>"King and David McNair [King's physician assistant] were conducting clinical research and human patient experimentation when they performed the anterior lumbar inter-body fusions" on eight patients, the "qui tam," or whistleblower, complaint states.</p> <p><strong>"King and McNair took studies that failed in laboratory animals, and then, without any reasonable basis to conclude that they would be successful, began to experiment on humans," the complaint says.</strong></p> </blockquote> <p><a href="http://sundaygazettemail.com/News/200901310919">The Charleston Gazette - West Virginia News and Sports - News - Doctor experimented on patients, suit alleges</a></p> <p><strong><u>Related Reading:  </u></strong></p> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/12/whistle-blowers-in-china-sent-to-mental.html">Whistle-blowers in China sent to mental hospital</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/03/corporate-whistleblowershealth-care.html">Corporate Whistleblowers....Health Care</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/02/merck-whistle-blower-wins-68m-award.html">Merck Whistle blower Wins $68M Award</a></h6> <h6><a href="http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/10/2-new-hot-words-in-healthcare.html">The 2 New Hot Words in Healthcare: Algorithms and Whistleblowers</a></h6> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:63168cc3-5c62-4892-b9f5-b19089dcebc9" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/FDA" rel="tag">FDA</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/lawsuit" rel="tag">lawsuit</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Wright+Medica" rel="tag">Wright Medica</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/EBU" rel="tag">EBU</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Biomet" rel="tag">Biomet</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/spine+surgery" rel="tag">spine surgery</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/medical+devices" rel="tag">medical devices</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/malpractice" rel="tag">malpractice</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/hospital" rel="tag">hospital</a></div>

Surgeon accumulated 124 Malpractice cases in 7 months – Whistleblowers expose devices not approved by the FDA

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Lawyers making money helping firms with algorithms and audit trails – Healthcare

<p> They are mining records from e-pass cards to tell when individuals entered building, offices, etc. and other items such as emails.  Most large hospitals have an IT department that is capable of running queries to obtain email exchange items and actually have program that monitor for something out of the ordinary just as part of day to day business, which may include emails or transactions.  <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_v3zjJigoAPE/SYaIkcq1msI/AAAAAAAAOOQ/x57Lceq1els/s1600-h/image%5B3%5D.png"><img align="right" alt="image" border="0" height="109" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_v3zjJigoAPE/SYaIlrE0etI/AAAAAAAAOOU/7n27f-E-vsk/image_thumb%5B1%5D.png?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" width="95" /></a> </p> <p>As a human, we interpret how we remember something, cameras and data just show the pictures or the data trails.  This particular company has it’s focus set on pharmaceutical companies, medical-device-makers, hospitals, and physicians.  </p> <p><em>“Lawyers in big cases can handle one or more terabytes of electronically stored information. One terabyte is roughly equivalent to about 75 million pages of data.”</em></p> <p>To handle the expertise required, lawyers are now hiring technology experts to assist in the task.<strong>  Again, as mentioned most companies and hospitals have monitoring and audit trails in place; however in special cases that perhaps go beyond email, the facility may not have the forensic forces available to audit and investigate the terabytes of information relative,</strong> thus here comes the legal teams, all set up with the folks to run the<strong> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm">“algorithms”</a></strong> against the collected data to get down to the facts.  <strong>Lawyers like algorithms too.</strong>  BD</p> <blockquote> <p>Lawyer Don Wochna and his partners are betting there's big money in tracking data generated by the ever-expanding universe of electronic devices people use to e-mail, telephone, pay highway tolls, or simply navigate from one place to another. </p> <p>Wochna's company, Vestige Ltd., specializes in mining data created by these so-called microprocessors for telling tidbits of information on behalf of law firms, health-care institutions, government agencies, and others.</p> <p>Often, their clients are contemplating a lawsuit - or themselves fear they are about to be sued.</p> <p>What Wochna and his colleagues are trying to do is to position themselves atop a vast mountain of electronic evidence that parties to litigation or other forms of dispute-resolution are increasingly trying to tap to gain the upper hand.</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.philly.com/inquirer/business/20090201_Firm_tracks_evidence_generated_by_e-devices.html">Firm tracks evidence generated by e-devices | Philadelphia Inquirer | 02/01/2009</a></p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:9fbecbaf-9615-452c-bf0d-b373ddff577c" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/healthcare" rel="tag">healthcare</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/medical" rel="tag">medical</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/lawsuits" rel="tag">lawsuits</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/algorithms" rel="tag">algorithms</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/queries" rel="tag">queries</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/lawyers" rel="tag">lawyers</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/technology" rel="tag">technology</a></div>

Lawyers making money helping firms with algorithms and audit trails – Healthcare

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Putting Sound where we Want it – Could this be used in Hospitals in the Future

<p>This is some amazing technology and he explains how the military is also using his inventions.  From a healthcare point of view I’m thinking of nurses in the hospitals, perhaps needing to be perhaps focused on selected patients.  <strong>Some hospitals have gone to the extent of hanging a big sign on some of the nurses administering medications, in other words walking around with a big “Do Not Disturb” sign on placed over their shoulders.</strong></p> <p>Those were just some of my immediate thought on how this technology could be developed for hospitals, in other words filter out what the staff may not need to be aware of and get the sounds relative to patient care to the focused point to allow for undisturbed care for patients.  Some area are just downright noisy too, so perhaps one more area where it could have use would be to allow patients to get rest, as how many times have we all heard <strong>“I can’t sleep in that noisy hospital” and had to come home to get some rest,</strong> so from that side of the coin this could make the healing and resting portion of time spent as a patient a little more valuable, in other words<strong> focus the day to day noise of the hospital floor away from the patient’s bed.</strong>  Great video and might just get you thinking!  BD  </p> <p><em><strong> Woody Norris shows off two of his inventions that treat sound in new ways, and talks about his untraditional approach to inventing and education.</strong></em> </p> <p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:6408a855-f308-48ff-8fb4-a5f775e78fe5" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent"><div id="3e9e1d1b-a1f5-4a6f-acb0-676014f431d1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF9G9M0cR0E&hl=en&fs=1" target="_new"><img alt="" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('3e9e1d1b-a1f5-4a6f-acb0-676014f431d1'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = "<div><object width=\"303\" height=\"227\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/HF9G9M0cR0E&hl=en&fs=1&hl=en\"><\/param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/HF9G9M0cR0E&hl=en&fs=1&hl=en\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"303\" height=\"227\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>";" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_v3zjJigoAPE/SYYIf2bGzyI/AAAAAAAAOOM/p9U31nXOWKg/video8ea2027b9f98%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-style: none"></a></div></div></div> </p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF9G9M0cR0E&sdig=1">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF9G9M0cR0E&sdig=1</a></p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:9586f997-4d1a-4e02-b325-6410b04a5b45" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/TED+convention" rel="tag">TED convention</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/healthcare" rel="tag">healthcare</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/science" rel="tag">science</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/noise+levels" rel="tag">noise levels</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/technology" rel="tag">technology</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/hospitals" rel="tag">hospitals</a></div>

Putting Sound where we Want it – Could this be used in Hospitals in the Future

This is some amazing technology and he explains how the military is also using his inventions.  From a healthcare point of view I’m thinking...

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