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• Blood Clotting Drug Lysteda approved by FDA for Treatment of Heavy Bleeding with Menstrual Periods

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 534
  The state 3 trials were just completed.  The article said use with contraception pills is also not a good idea.  I believe this is one of the first non hormone treatment in a pill format (beyond what Midol can do)  that had been approved to treat menstrual period with heavy bleeding.    This is the same ...
  12 hours ago

• Health Insurance Company Offering 20% Discount for Members Who Want DNA Testing

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 534
  This is interesting and perhaps a way of both helping educate and help the slow growing genomics testing business at the same time.  OptumHealth, a subsidiary of United Healthcare is offering the discount.  They are not covering the tests, but if patients want to have their DNA tests done, it’s a chance for a ...
  13 hours ago

• Remote Area Medical Holds Free Healthcare Clinic in Union County Tennessee

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 534
  I think we all remember when Remote Area Medical came to Los Angeles.  I was busy here posting updates on the free 8 day medical clinic that was held at The Forum.   Tennessee is the only state that allows doctors to cross state lines, thus of course it is a popular location for the clinics.  Insured and ...
  22 hours ago

• Wright Receives FDA Approval for CONSERVE Hip Resurfacing System

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 534
  Resurfacing is al alternative that has been suggested for use in younger individuals instead of a full hip replacement.  With this recent approval the company can go beyond the prior premarket approval.  I remember just a few years ago resurfacing was not even approved in the US and most have to go overseas to ...
  4 days ago

• Glaxo Gets FDA Approval for H1N1 (Swine) Flu Vaccine

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 534
  38 Million of the 250 million doses ordered by the government are available, but Glaxo said it’s approved vaccine won’t ship until next month.  This has been absolutely a fire drill to get supplied out in the US.  In the meantime, Glaxo is continuing to close facilities like some of the other manufacturers ...
  4 days ago

• Dolly Parton Tells You About Web Slices with Internet Explorer

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 534
  This is classic and funny too!  Web Slices are a feature of Internet Explorer and do save some time and energy, so you can select what is useful to you in searching the web.  We have a role model here, Dolly giving it her best (grin).  We could sure use a few more role models in Health IT too come to think of it!  ...
  4 days ago

• Healthcare reform and abortion

  
  Health Care - From Policy to Practice — Authority: 116
  Now that healthcare reform is in full swing, were sure to see several issues that votes and opinions collide on when it comes to coverage. Currently the House and the Senate are looking at if and how abortion should be covered. Should this be dropped from the health bill, it may leave many women with private ...
  4 days ago

• Intel Introduces a Reader – Capture Text and Pictures and Have It Read Back to You

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 534
  We have one more gadget to add to today’s choices, one from Intel that focuses on people with dyslexia, low-vision or blindness or other disabilities.  It reads out lout, connects to your PC does MP3, and more.  Of course it is fully integrated with a USB slot and integrates with your computer to transfer ...
  5 days ago

• Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Working to Support Physicians on Guam – Telemedicine and More

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 534
  Recently I attended the World Medical Tourism Conference in Los Angeles and you can read the links below to find out more about how I was educated in healthcare and how things are changing.  World Medical Tourism Conference 2009 – A Learning Awareness   Interview with Curtis Schroeder, CEO ...
  6 days ago

• Florida To Offer Medicaid Enrollees a Personal Health Record Soon

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 534
  This is a start, but it appears that all information will need to be entered manually and can be printed out on a card format.  I remember software doing that a few years ago that I used to recommend before all of this became available online.  Down the road, all Medicaid claim data will be populated for the patient ...
  6 days ago

• Health Insurance the Worst Product in the US – Former BlueCross/BlueShield “Spokesjerk”

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 534
  Andy Cobb was hired to make commercials for BlueCross/BlueShield and now he has joined up with Brave New Films to give his honest opinion, it was his fault that he made the commercials and now is a proponent for the public health option.  He states now he has done all the damage he can do.  He states there is no ...
  1 week ago

• Sit Ins Demonstrated at Senator Liebermans Office – 4 Arrested

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 534
  Four individuals were arrested today at the sit in.  These are non violent protests that are asking for a single payer system and getting arrested to bring it to the forefront.  Recently the group has been sitting in at insurance company headquarters and in Rhode Island, one group stated that United has granted ...
  1 week ago

• How Does Socialized Medicine Work in Israel

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 534
  With healthcare reform carrying center spotlight, it’s never a bad idea to look around and see what others are doing to provide healthcare for their citizens.  This video shows people with dual citizenship who have experienced both, and granted the US is a much larger entity than Israel so our problem is larger ...
  1 week ago

• CMS plans cuts to Medicare Cardiology Provider Fees Close to 40%

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 534
  As proposed in the draft rule in July, the new physician fee schedule also eliminates payment for consultation codes, which will reduce payments for cardiology consultation services.  If CMS is using the survey from the AMA and there was such a small return and this is the basis for the cut, I guess it would ...
  1 week ago

• Hospital Gets Patient Monitoring Devices Connected to the EHR with Capsule Technologies And Saves Money in the Process

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 534
    Capsule Technology is an independent provider of medical device connectivity services and it sounds like this hospital has benefited from using their services.  They support close to 500 devices and can be the answer to connecting devices at many different levels and age of equipment.  A good percentage of ...
  1 week ago

• Radiation Oncology Only to Receive 1% Cut and not 19% – CMS

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 534
  The American Society for Radiation Oncology got busy after the initial announcements and conducted surveys and found that as many as 50% of the facilities in rural areas could face closing if the reductions went through, so now instead of 19% at once, it’s 1% over 4 years for a total of 5% overall. Due to ...
  1 week ago

• The Health Internet – Government Looking to Expand The National Health Information Network For Public Use

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 534
  The National Health Information Network already exists and to date has never been tested for the public to use, but the move to shift all of healthcare to it’s own network is a big one, so I would guess you could think of a separate entire entity here, used for healthcare information only.  The government has ...
  2 weeks ago

• CBO: Public Option Premiums Pricier Than Private Insuance in House Plan

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 815
  Filed under: Senate , House , Democrats , Health Care , The Capitolist Weve already thrown 2,000 pages of health care bill reading at you today, but we want to call your attention to one important paragraph in the Congressional Budget Offices analysis of the House Democrats plan that was unveiled Thursday. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Interview with Curtis Schroeder, CEO Bumrungrad International Hospital and Nate McLemore, Health Solutions at Microsoft – International Personal Health Records with HealthVault

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 534
  This week I spent a day at the World Medical Tourism Conference in Los Angeles and had a few minutes for an informal quick interview with Curtis Schroeder CEO Bumrungrad International Hospital and Nate McLemore, Senior Director  Bus. Development Health Solutions at Microsoft.   In the news this week, ...
  2 weeks ago

• HealthVault Goes International – Partnering with Bumrungrad Hospital in Thailand for Medical Travelers

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 534
  This is not the first time Bumrungrad Hospital has been covered on the blog.   Earlier this year the wireless network with Windows Mobile and a section about Amalga, so the HealthVault addition today adds it all up.  The hospital is one of the first outside the US using the entire Amalga HIS system.  Within the US ...
  2 weeks ago

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