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Archives for October, 2010

Edgar Allan Poe’s “THE RAVEN”

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping [+]

Time for a smile!

[caption id="attachment_2405" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="The Great and Powerful PHILOSORAPTOR!"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_2408" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Raptor holding an RPG while riding a shark. Classic."][/caption] [+]

Quest Diagnostics Launches Its First Mobile Application

Quest Diagnostics launched its first mobile app for Blackberry and iPhone, which allows users to receive their Quest Diagnostics lab results and manage their personal health information. With the release of this app, Quest Diagnostics is [+]

Mobile Health Expo Selects Voalté as 2010 Award Winner

Mobile Health Expo, an event focusing on the convergence of mobile technology and healthcare across the entire mobile health ecosystem, has named Voalté the Mobile Health Expo 2010 Award winner in the [+]

A nurses view of the Emergency Medical Record

Emergency Room Nurses Nicole & Theresa at Sartori Hospital in Cedar Falls Iowa talk about the integration of EMR (Electronic Medical Records) and computerized charting in patient care. [+]

Robot Assist May Improve Myomectomy

Removing myomas using a robot-assisted laparoscopic approach may have some advantages over a conventional laparoscopic or open removal, a retrospective study showed From MedPageToday:  Full Story [+]

Jill Explains the Difference Between HIPAA and RFR

HIPAA and the Red Flag Rules are similar, but different.  Both can cause a medical facility a lot of compliance changes.  The following video quickly and succinctly breaks down the differences. [+]

Rural Health Care Leadership Conference

Conference Agenda & Speakers! For 24 years Health Forum and the American Hospital Association's Rural Health Care Leadership Conference has both informed and inspired rural health care leaders and this coming year is no exception. The [+]

Understanding Meaningful Use with Dr. Blumenthal

David Blumenthal, MD, MPP, national coordinator for health information technology, discusses the meaningful use criteria for EHRs and the resources available to help practices implement the technology. [+]

Technologies of Brain Mapping

Introduction to Brain Mapping If you are into neuro-feedback therapy or know how it helps solve health issues related to brain function, then you may be interested in how this technology works and [+]

Proving Outcomes with Health Information Technology

Population based medicine can be very challenging.  The creation of Health Information Systems make it possible to prove outcomes in a large patient population without the massive staff needs of paper systems. [+]

What might the future look like for E-Patients?

What does the future hold for an online patient? On a personal note, I believe the future looks rosy for the internet based patient (but that could easily be because of my day [+]

Verizon’s Gerard Grundler on Verizon’s Health Information Exchange as a Service Solution

Gerard Grundler, Managing Principal, Healthcare IT Services, Verizon Business, discusses the company's health information exchange (HIE) as a service solution and the role of Oracle technology in the initiative. [+]

Painless Laser Tissue Analysis Could Replace X-Rays Within Five Years

From the brains of Popular Science and MIT: MIT is exploring the use of Raman spectroscopy to test diabetics' blood for glucose levels without drawing any blood. Other non-invasive diagnostic tools are employing the [+]

Medical Diagnostic Arrays on portable paper chips

In what may very well be a transformational technology in diagnostic medicine, a new company called "Diagnostics for All" has developed arrays of medical diagnostic capabilities in very cheap and easy to produce ways: Disposable diagnostic [+]

What is the ICD-9 code for Zombies?

It is hard to deal with zombies, but adding new diagnosis codes to your EMR should be easy. One of the things you should be thinking about for your electronic medical record is the [+]

Wahiawa General First Hospital in Hawaii to Adopt iPhones at the Point of Care

Cutting-edge communication technology will soon be increasing the efficiency of nurses at Wahiawa General Hospital. Nurses and other point of care workers will be using iPhones as an integrated communication solution, thanks to Voalté’s first-of-its-kind [+]

Telemedicine broken down, and today’s need

Long before sophisticated technology had infiltrated the health care industry, patients had to take a trip to doctors/physicians to seek medical care. People had to travel far and wide to access health [+]

You need a disaster recovery plan because you never know when your data center will EXPLODE!

You have to hope that your data center never explodes, but you never know.  I have seen many hospital data center incidents that caused major outages and huge costs in damage.  Not only does a [+]

Monday morning SMILE! EXPLODING PUMPKINS!

Stress relief comes in many forms.  In this case, it comes in blowing up pumpkins with low yield tannerite explosives and then making a goofy video out of them. Only pumpkins were harmed in the making [+]

Microsoft Health Tech Today: The Panasonic Toughbook

The Panasonic Toughbook is the gold standard for medical laptops, built to satisfy demanding customers in critical situations. [+]

Health Connections #KSMQ Stress Sucks!!

It is amazing what a couple of wars, the economy, a messy election season, your job, your family, and a bunch or really hungry pets can do to your stress level.  Paul Bartemes, Head of [+]

Friday Fun: Our ducks have gotten BIG!

All of these ducks arrived on August 18th, and less than 60 days later they are HUGE!  Check out small they were at 2 days old here. BIG DUCKS!  The white ones are Jumbo Pekings.  The [+]

Please help me decide! Which format should we use for the Health Care Social Media Directory?

We have today's table format, or a new Wiki format. Which format is your preference?  Please vote! [poll id="13"] Thank you, [+]

Health Connections #KSMQ Brain Aneurysms with Mayo Clinic

Brain Aneurysms are an incredibly scary affliction.  They can strike with limited warning and the general public is not well educated about aneurysms.  With me on this episode of Health Connections, Dr Robert Brown, Chair [+]
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