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Fortune 100 Companies Don't Get Twitter Study Says and I Agree by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy This is a good study I think as a user of Twitter I can clearly say those without any personality don’t get the reads. You can pretty much tell the stale and stuffy one ... Read on »

Quest Diagnostics gets European CE Mark for H1N1 (Swine) Flu Test by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The test has been approved here in the US by emergency declaration a few months ago. Quest recently posted 3rd quarter profits of 1.9 billion so they are doing a lot of tests ... Read on »

Whistle Blowers Are The Department of Justice’s Best Friend When It Comes to Solving Fraud by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy I posted this last October in 2008 and little did I know how true it would really play out to be as time moved on, those 2 items right there are what seems to make the dollars ... Read on »

ZigBee Alliance Creates Group to Educate Healthcare Professionals and Consumers on Telehealth by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy First stop for this group should be the US Congress to educate, as they need some of this knowledge so they can create and pass laws that are useful and meaningful, kind of ... Read on »

The Silence is Deafening With Meaningful Use – Start Spelling Some of This Out In Algorithmic... by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy One thing to be said for algorithmic formats is that there would a bit less text to deal with and less money going out for legal advice. Publish the algorithms that need to b ... Read on »

FDA Approves Hot Chili Pain Patch – Made With a Synthetic Version of Capsaicin by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Need a pain patch, hot chilies to the rescue, well sort of. The pain patch product, Qutenza need a prescription by your physician. It is stated to be helpful with relief fro ... Read on »

Medicare Extends Personal Health Record Pilot Program – Magpie Healthcare Thrives, Where’s the... by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy I talk about this quite a bit here, especially since I am actively involved and have helped my own 85 year old mother with putting her records into a PHR. I also was skeptica ... Read on »

Health Net Data Breach – 1.5 Million Records At Risk With Missing Portable Hard Drive by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Members in 3 states going back to 2002 are at risk and will receive free credit services. Recently Blue Cross was in the news for a similar type of incident with exposing pro ... Read on »

Tele Presence Robots for Remote Workers – Invasion of the AnyBots by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy More Robots, these do dishes and make coffee and you control them remotely! OK…. Here’s a page with some videos.The phone used to be the next best thing to being ... Read on »

HealthVault Product Manager Discusses HealthVault and How It Works With Mayo Clinic by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy One of the product Development Managers from HeatlhVault discusses how he works with and uses the Mayo Clinic HealthVault software. Anymore with all the products emerging in t ... Read on »

DeCode Genetics Files for Bankruptcy in the US – Iceland Facility Likely to Go On Option Block by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy This is sad and in August of 2008 it looked like the company was on their way.Decode Nearly Doubles Revenues in Q2 - Personalized MedicineAs the article states it was not all ... Read on »

Aetna Health Insurance Laying Off over 1000 Employees – Most in Connecticut by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The economy is having it’s toll on everyone. Aetna has won some and lost some in the corporate bidding battles as employers have been one of their key targets. Bank of ... Read on »

California PPO Report Card is Out – No Five Stars and No Four Stars For That Matter by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Here’s the screenshot of the summary, details can be read at the site. This is created by the Department of Insurance and Blue Cross didn’t even respond on this g ... Read on »

Patients at El Camino Hospital Check in with Biometric Authentication – Patient Security by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy This is pretty neat and not too long ago I wrote about the opening of the hospital. The PalmSecure software/hardware will work with Citrix and scans your hand. Once you hav ... Read on »

IBM Scientists Created Point of Care Diagnostic Test Using Silicon Chip – Less Sample, Faster And... by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The big test touted here is testing for heart disease. The chip is portable and the patient has to donate less blood and/or urine. This is amazing that results would be ava ... Read on »

Office Ally Receives Electronic Health Network Accreditation – Privacy and HIPPA Compliance by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Just last week Office Ally announced new information regarding their PHR, personal health records, and security and privacy is something that is on everyone’s mind toda ... Read on »

FedEx Introduces SenseAware – Focus on Healthcare and Life Sciences for Tracking Shipments In Real... by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy In a former life I worked for a logistics company which is now owned by FedEx and this brings back some memories and is also very a very interesting innovation for those in ... Read on »

Demand for Temporary Physicians,Nurses and Other Medical Positions Falling by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Most of the agencies discussed here stated the economy and stock market had an impact on their markets and even drops in locum tenens placements were down, though not as low. ... Read on »

Interactive Graphic – Your Labs and How To Read and Understand the Report by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy I thought this was very cool to see in the New York Times and you can click on the image to visit the site. How many of us really know what all the information on a lab repor ... Read on »

Mammogram Guidelines Change – Screening Should Start at 50 and Then Only Every 2 Years by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Women that fall under the BRCA-1 and BRCA-2 genes tests though, would not be subject to the guidelines established. The BRCA tests are also being scrutinized by health insura ... Read on »

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