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Once exposed to the realities of practical and sustainable healthcare delivery physicians are quick to regret not learning more about the business side of medicine at medical school. In a posting on Kevin.MD “How can doctors understand the business side of medicine?” Michelle Mudge-Riley echos a frequent sentiment amongst her colleagues One thing I regret is not […]
August 15, 2011 MotoGoo, Motoogle, or Googola — a big deal any way you slice it Google just bought Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion. Cringe isn’t sure the Googlers will know what to do with it By Robert X. Cringely | InfoWorld Follow @ifw_cringely Print | 1 Comment And I thought August was going to […]
Health care providers over the years have raised a number of objections to electronic health records — they cost too much, disrupt practices already pressed for time and fail to mesh with the way medical offices work. Learn more about using speech recognition technology How to purchase, implement a medical speech recognition system Meditab, speech […]
Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT), Helicobacter Pylori are just a couple of the well known instances where apparent intransigence of the medical community prevented advancement in medical treatments. Turns out we get things wrong on both sides of the coin. Ben Goldacre highlighted some research in the New England Journal of Medicine in his piece Studies of studies […]
Study from Kaiser in the US showed an increase in asthma in children with mothers exposed on one occasion to an increased magnetic field Critics Slam Asthma Risk, Magnetic Fields Link UK group debunks the study with lack of controls and accounting for other well known factors. Let’s hoe the media picks up on this […]
via radiologytoday.net Dr Watson coming to Healthcare hoping to help bring the latest information to the medical decision making of the clinician Posted via email from drnic’s posterous
In a great review by Mark Hagland: “CMIOs at the Hot Center: Planets Seen Aligning at AMDIS” he highlights the he annual Physician-Computer Connection Symposium, held in Ojai (Pronounced oh high) Valley Inn and Spa in Ojai, Calif. that I also had the pleasure of attending. A busy 2 1/2 days of learning, meeting, talking, eating and […]
In a report from the National Journal: Report: 5 Percent of People Account for Half of U.S. Health Care Spending a small minority of patients generate 50% of the costs of care in the US: ~50% of the U.S. population accounted for only 3.1 percent of all expenditures 10 percent of the population hogged 63.6 percent of all health […]
Troubling developments when the medical profession starts offering untested therapies Doctors offer unapproved stem cell therapies http://usat.ly/kCyYJC Is this r rally the way forward in medicine? Posted via email from drnic’s posterous
80% of the planet have a cell phone – the latest challenge creating an artificial intelligence that can diagnose patients better than board certified doctors Burt Rutan (chief of Scaled Composites) astronaut Brian Binnie managed to show the world that space travel was possible in October 2004 with SpaceShipOne’s second flight into suborbital space within five days […]
Robotic surgery is on the increase and for good reason. Its not just the ability to control movement more precisely but with the ability to create small instruments that are able to achieve the same function as larger more invasive instruments. As this interview with Dr Fernando (a colleague and alum from the Royal Free Hospital) highlights […]
As promised my Slide presentation has been uploaded to Slideshare on LinkedIn: “Meaningful Use Day Of Reckoning Health Story”. Click on the link below to view the presentation. http://slidesha.re/ejqTv7 Posted via email from drnic’s posterous
Cloud computing is on a target to generate billions in revenue and is experiencing something of a revival. It’s a revival when you consider that historically our access to computers used to be in the cloud…albeit the cloud was some data center and we were wired to that cloud with a hard wired terminal. Just […]
In a fun piece by the Onion titled: Quick-Lube Shop Masters Electronic Record Keeping Six Years Before Medical Industry offers an alternative solution to the current challenges of implementing an EHR. Since car maintenance is well tracked and probably many of us have experienced the sophistication of he follow up by your local lubrication center sending you a reminder […]
In a recent study comparing acupuncture with simulated acupuncture: Simulated acupuncture can treat nausea effectively in cancer patients undergoing radiotherapyhttp://www.news-medical.net/news/20110324/Simulated-acupuncture-can-treat-nausea-effectively-in-cancer-patients-undergoing-radiotherapy.aspx More compelling evidence of the power of the placebo effect and the power of our own thought and mind The study from Karoli ska Institutet and Linköping University in Sweden showed that patients, who received only […]
Gorilla Glass (foundation of the iPhone display) – Imagine the possibilities in healthcare Posted via email from drnic’s posterous
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This needs to be fixed if telemedicine is ever to take off A national license to practice medicinehttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2011/01/national-license-practice-medicine.html Posted via email from drnic’s posterous
New innovation improves results in IVF IVF breakthrough to hit the world markethttp://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-01/uoa-ibt010511.php Posted via email from drnic’s posterous
Eat more tomatoes…..Tomatoes found to contain nutrient which prevents vascular diseaseshttp://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-01/w-tft010611.php Posted via email from drnic’s posterous
President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) to Release Health Information Technology Report SPEAKERS: – Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary, HHS– Lawrence Summers, Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director, National Economic Council– David Blumenthal, National Coordinator for Health IT– Eric Lander and Christine Cassel, President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology– […]
Despite a Randomized clinical trials (RCT) some eight years ago physicians continue to prescribe hormone replacement therapy (HRT) with regular dosage despite the risks associated with this therapy High-Dose HRT Still Prevalent (CME/CE) More evidence for the requirement for clinical support tools and integration of evidence based medicine (EBM) into regular clinical practice. Capturing clinical […]
Great Presentation on 100 day productivity system 100 Day System: Where Creativity and Productivity Collide View more presentations from Steven Feeney.
5 Innovative Technologies Changing Health Care [VIDEOS]http://mashable.com/2010/11/24/health-care-tech/ Posted via email from drnic’s posterous
