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• Florida To Offer Medicaid Enrollees a Personal Health Record Soon

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 516
  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 ...
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• Health Insurance the Worst Product in the US – Former BlueCross/BlueShield “Spokesjerk”

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 516
  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 day ago

• Sit Ins Demonstrated at Senator Liebermans Office – 4 Arrested

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 516
  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 ...
  3 days ago

• How Does Socialized Medicine Work in Israel

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 516
  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 ...
  5 days ago

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

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 516
  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 ...
  5 days ago

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

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 516
    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 ...
  5 days ago

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

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 516
  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: 516
  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 ...
  1 week ago

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

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 813
  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. ...
  1 week 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: 516
  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, ...
  1 week ago

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

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 516
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• NoMoreClipboard PHR Helping Patients Manage Diabetes – Howard University Hospital Washington DC

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 516
  I remember back at HIMMs 2008 running across the booth for NoMoreClipboard.  At the time they were ready to release MiCard and there have been a number of features and items added since that time. MiCard allows you to carry your information around on a credit card type card.  This pilot program looks like a nice ...
  2 weeks ago

• Metro Health Village Using Thin Clients for Hospital Health IT – Epic Records System

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 516
  They have 6 individuals maintaining about 4000 back end sessions.  If you are not familiar with thin clients, all the functionality is done at the back end, in other words, the IT staff is not being required to handle a full PC, so all the problems with operating systems and so on that go with having a PC are gone, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Journal of Participatory Medicine – Website Launch

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 516
  Ok so what is this all about, the word participatory comes from the work participation, so in short this is what it is all about, getting involved in your healthcare.  If you don’t get involved there’s nobody going to do it for you.  We are very busy today as we have more information and decision making ...
  2 weeks ago

• Kaiser Permanente Patients To Participate in the Creation of A Massive Genetic Data Base

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 516
  The results will be available for scientists to analyze and study, to determine if certain environmental conditions impact the presence of a disease in a certain area for one example.  The electronic medical record information contained in the Kaiser medical records data base will also contribute valuable ...
  2 weeks ago

• 2 Year Old Skinny Baby Denied Healthcare – Height and Weight Did not Add Up to the Allowable Algorithmic Formula For Coverage

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 516
  This article states this was a division of United HealthCare that denied coverage.  I keep talking about how they run those formulas and here’s another perfect example, as they are refining these down to where it’s really going to get difficult to fit the parameters.  Was the girl outside the percentiles on a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cook Medical Group Founder Proposes Radical Approach to Health Care Reform

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 516
  We now have the founder of Cook Medical, Bill Cook,  stepping up to the plate and calling for radical reform.  Below are a few lines from his post which can be viewed in its entirety here.    We keep waiting for Congress to somehow get their act together and hopefully the outcome will be good. Also ...
  2 weeks ago

• UK Health Records Sent to India Firm End Up for Sale After Digitization Process Completed

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 516
  When you outsource to another country, this is always a potential occurrence with those who are less than honest, and it could happen anywhere as those folks are among us world over.  The story says the clinic contracted with a 3rd party who did the actual outsourcing.  The going price on some records was as ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Banks Are Recovering – Healthcare Is Nowhere Near Recovery

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 516
  If you read the news today about the Goldman all time bonuses, like me, it does not make you want to jump up for joy.  I agree with this article here, we bailed out the banks and nobody else.   I wrote a thought provoking post about a month ago and I still keep provoking those thoughts. “Maybe The Real ...
  3 weeks ago

• Microsoft Tag on the IPhone – Video On How It Works

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 516
  Here’s some additional information on Microsoft Tag.  As I mentioned prior, this is moving into the PHR arena too.  This could make it really easy to get your information in to your PHR.  RazCode/Windows Tags – Bar Coding to Add Information to PHRs, EHRs This is the next step forward with using ...
  3 weeks ago

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