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WHO Classifies Mobile RF Radiation A Class 2B Cancer Causing Agent And There’s an App For Detection..Sort Of
There’s a cell phone radiation gauge that can be used on cell phones and it turns into an graph to show you how much radiation the phone is ...
Brazilian Blowout Goes Beyond FDA to Capitol Hill
The big issue with the hair straightening product is the formaldehyde exposure to the salon workers and patrons too I guess for that matter....
Kaiser Permanente Satisfied With Their Electronic Medical Records Program In Meeting Their Needs
This was a nice video done by the Wall Street Journal that focused on a doctor’s point of view for a big part of it. What was mentioned tho...
Molina Picks Centricity Practice Solution For Primary EHR Platform
Back in August of 2010 the company had some issues with delayed payments and probably a good reason for their search to find a solution. In...
Government Cutting Premium Rates by Up to 40% For High Risk Health Insurance For Consumers With Existing Conditions
So far the enrollment has reach about 18,000 consumers, far short of the 375,000 that were slated to be able to gain coverage, why, probably...
Ion Torrent’s DNA Desktop Machine Walk Through- How Semi Conductor Sequencing Works (Video)
This is a great video to actually see the working machine and how it works. I have written about the Ion Torrent machine a couple of times ...
VA and Department of Defense Begin Testing A Common User Interface for VA VistA and AHLTA Medical Records in Hawaii
Boy what a surprise here using an interface that will make it easier to query and access records from both systems. It’s funny that this wa...
Hospitals Continue to Struggle With Drug Shortages–Availability Is Not Always There
Everyone is talking about better efficiency at hospitals, well how does that compute when they need to dedicate individuals to check and fin...
Individual Health Insurance HMO Prices in New York City Growing To Being Non-Affordable for Many–One Company Has Premiums Over $3000 a Month
The number of HMOs serving New York City has also dropped from 13 in 2004 to seven today. I’m guessing that the bankers on Wall Street aren...
Security Breaches Getting Attention Again–Patient Privacy Issues at Stake And It’s Everyone’s Concern and Problem To Solve-No Witch Hunts Please…
The problem seems to be growing larger and part of the reasons here, outside of “dumb” mistakes as far as taking data home on computers, is ...
Nursing Student Vanishes While on Break at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center
I hope this one has a good ending but as the news reports she was on break from conducting rounds and was not seen again. Her car was found...
Argus II “Artificial Retina” Wins European Approval
This is some really amazing technology from Second Sight and there are 2 parts, the implant in the eye and the base unit worn that converts...
ICD-10 and HIPAA 5010 Form Transitions May Not Be Ready To Meet Scheduled Deadlines-Aggregated and Shared Data Methodologies Require More Time & Planning
This should be be a big drop dead hint for anyone as if you follow how complicated healthcare software has become it’s only natural . New e...
GE Creates HealthyMagination Report and Website–Ho Hum One More Site With Consumers Apps That Will Probably Bite the Dust Like Many Others Have
Everybody seems to want to create the applications that are going to get consumers involved but don’t hold your breath:) I like technology ...
Boston Scientific Recalls 29,000 Coronary Imaging Catheters–Tips Detaching
One more recall and and the catheters being recalled will be from hospitals for the most part. We are still using the same old methodologie...
FDA Approves New Drug To Treat Clostridium Difficile Infections
In July of 2010 the FDA approved a test for C Diff and the results are given within an hour. Already launched in Europe, illumigene C. diff...
Senator Tom Coburn Discusses Healthcare and Medicare Reform
This is actually an interesting interview that goes in-depth and shows a different side than what has been in the news of late with the Sena...
Life Technologies Launches New Sequencing Analysis Software For The Cloud
We all talk about the future of the cloud and there’s no group that needs it more than the area of genomics and sequencing with the huge amo...
Florida Governor Rick Scott Signs State Budget That Cuts Medicaid Reimbursements in the Sate by 12% While Florida HMO Profits Were Up 16%
We all know states with Republican Governors are not very popular today and Florida is one state saddled with one who is cutting costs every...
Sleep Marketing–Healthcare Companies Looking to Market and Commoditize Our Habits–Snoozing Marketers Unleashed
This is something that all of us humans and others who walk the face of the earth have been doing since the beginning of time, but now healt...
