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Personal Health Record Use by Adolescents
In response to many questions about PHR use by adolescents, I asked Fabienne Bourgeois, the expert at Children's Hospital Boston, to write this guest blog post -As more and more practices and hospitals are making patient portals available...Show More Summary
Top stories in health and medicine, May 15, 2013
Brought to you by MedPage Today. 1. Angelina’s Mastectomy: Oncologists Respond. When Angelina Jolie charted her course of action against the breast cancer cards she’d been dealt, she didn’t seek direction from an academic medical center. 2. Bike Helmet Law Benefit Unclear. Despite a decrease in bicycle-related head injuries since the passage of legislation requiring [...]
DoHA Budget 2013-14 and E-Health - What Do We See? Looks Like A Major Slowing In Investment After 14 Months From Now.
The relevant part of the Budget is DoHA - Outcome 10. The link is here: http://www.health.gov.au/internet/budget/publishing.nsf/Content/2013-2014_Health_PBS Right at the top we read. Outcome 10 HEALTH SYSTEM CAPACITY AND QUALITY Outcome...Show More Summary
AusHealthIT Poll Number 167 – Results – 15th May, 2013.
The question was: What Do You Predict Will Be The Fate of E-Health Funding In The Upcoming Budget on Tuesday? Big Increase 0% (0) Small Increase 10% (5) No Change 10% (5) Minor Decrease 24% (12) Major Decrease 43% (22) I Have No Idea...Show More Summary
Does Angelina Jolie paint false picture of mastectomy?
A woman’s mother dies at age 56. A blood test is done. The woman finds out she has a genetic pre-disposition to cancer. She takes what action she thinks she needs to take. A familiar story repeated over and over again every day. I’ve met many women who have made this choice. While not “normal”, [...]
How waste is directly harmful to patients
Experts, most recently former CMS administrator Don Berwick, tell us that no less than 20% – 30% of medical care is waste. At the very least, waste is harmful to all those who pay for Medicare. But often it’s directly harmful to the patient as well. I recently saw a friend at a party. Since [...]
Angelina Jolie: Why her story comes at a crucial time for BRCA testing
Dear Ms. Jolie, Thank you for your bravery and leadership in the battle against breast cancer. In a small way, through my patients, I understand the challenge and pain it took not only to undergo prophylactic mastectomies, because you carry the BRCA1 cancer gene, but also to reveal this deeply personal part of your life [...]
Physio-Control’s TrueCPR Device Nearly Guarantees Perfect Chest Compressions
Performing chest compressions in CPR is a fairly simple process easily explained to most laymen, but execution is key. You don’t want to be breaking ribs, but you certainly don’t want to under-pump the patient with even graver results. Physio-Control...Show More Summary
NHS clinicians save up to 45 minutes a day through simplified access to patient data
Even in some of the most digitally advanced hospitals and clinics I visit, I frequently hear clinicians grousing about access to patient care data and systems. It’s not unusual for todays’ healthcare settings to have multiple repositories of patient data...(read more)
Sorin’s SMARTVIEW Remote Monitoring System Coming to U.S.
Sorin announced that it received regulatory clearance and is launching in the U.S. its SMARTVIEW Remote Monitoring System that keeps watch of the company’s Sorin PARADYM RF implanted cardiac devices. The system includes an at-home unit...Show More Summary
I turned 50 today
Some reflections on the first third of my life. I’ve been blessed with people in all stages of my life who supported me, and even when situations didn’t warrant it, they kept believing. My parents are alive and healthy, three terrific kids, two grand kids, a most excellent and accomplished son-in-law (and another in the [...]Show More Summary
The controversy over DSM-5 and the cataclysm in mental health
Here’s a joke I love: A man goes to an old-school psychiatrist who, at the first session, administers some Rorschach tests. “Just tell me the first thing that comes to mind,” the doctor instructs the patient as he shows him the ink blots. “Sex,” answers the patient. “I see,” says the doctor. “And this one?” [...]
Six Years Later, Ranbaxy - Oops, Daiichi Sankyo - Pleads Guilty to Adulteration, Pays $500 Million
It only took until 2013, but the US Food and Drug Administration finally secured guilty pleas and fines. The basics are in an Associated Press story (via the Washington Post): A subsidiary of India’s largest pharmaceutical company has...Show More Summary
Boston Scientific Rhythmia Mapping System Cleared in Europe
Boston Scientific won the European CE Mark for its Rhythmia Mapping System, a product developed by Burlington, MA-based Rhythmia and purchased by Boston Sci last year. The mapping system takes advantage of the IntellaMap Orion catheter that features 64 electrodes to provide fast and detailed electro-anatomical mapping of the heart. Show More Summary
Doximity Physician Network Now Available for Apple iPads
Doximity, self-described as the “largest online physician network”, has now made its app available on the Apple iPad. The system allows secure communication between doctors including HIPAA compliant faxing with a complimentary fax number for all registered physicians. The app was previously available for iPhones and Android phones and tablets. Read More
EHR and HIT News for May 14th
Today’s EHR and HIT News includes customer acquisition updates from Streamline Health and Capsule Tech, news from Hello Health on a new iPhone application, and an update from McKesson Healthcare on their McKesson Gives Back program. ...Show More Summary
American health care: The problem of always wanting more
I remember going to see the movie “Oliver” in the theater when I was a kid. Since this was my first movie in a theater, my mom made me a treat: a bag full of raisins and chocolate chips (Raisinets for Dutch people) and sent me there with my sister. It was a fine film, [...]
Angelina Jolie and medical decisions
I have admired Angelina Jolie’s acting in the past. Now I commend her decision to discuss the difficult decision to have a preventive mastectomy. She unfortunately carries a gene that makes her chances for breast cancer incredibly high. The comic book Spiderman was where I first saw the famous saying – with great power comes [...]
CARMAT Hydraulic Artificial Heart Set to Begin Human Trials (w/video)
CARMAT (Velizy Villacoublay, France) today announced that its bioprosthetic total artificial heart is now scheduled to be trialed for the first time in human patients at four medical centers in Europe and Middle East. The CARMAT heart...Show More Summary
iImplant, a New App to Assist in Determining Appropriateness of ICD and CRT-D Implantation
A new highly useful app has just been released by a group of cardiologists from the University of Oklahoma called iImplant. This is a free tool designed to help health care professionals in determining the appropriateness of ICD (implantable cardioverter-defibrillator) and CRT-D (Cardiac resynchronization therapy-defibrillator) implantation. Show More Summary
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