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The Medical Quack
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/
Daily Health Care news and resources, including Health IT and technology.
- Added on: Jun 2nd, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Barbara Duck
- Listed in: Health Medicine
- Tags: Health Insurance Microsoft pharma healthcare tablet pc medical records
Recent Posts
Dr. Oz Speaks about Mammograms and Breast Examinations
Dr. Oz makes a good point here in the fact that he disagrees with doctors not advising patients to conduct their own self exam and I agree with that as well, after all you know your body more than anyone else. He thinks the debate will continu...
4 Cases of Tamiflu-resistant H1N1 Cases Appearing at Duke University Medical Center
Tamiflu will remain as the the treatment of choice for the flu. The scary part of this is that 3 of the 4 patients died who had the resistant flu. CDC is investigating. Relenza is another drug that can be used to fight the flu but ...
CVS Caremark Launching Collaborating with Generation Health To Launch Program to Predict Patient Response for a Dozen Drugs With Genetic Testing
This is the first announcement of this type I have seen. Generation Health bills itself as a genetic benefit management company. It seems interesting that GINA has just become effective with new provisions that prevent family history to ...
Security with Health IT Pretty Sketchy at Some Hospitals and Doctor’s Offices
This is one I have seen first hand as a vendor at hospitals, walking in and seeing stuff like Lime Wire on hospital PCs. It makes you think why in the world would an IS manager bring a computer into the active directory access without pl...
Fortune 100 Companies Don\'t Get Twitter Study Says and I Agree
This is a good study I think as a user of Twitter I can clearly say those without any personality don’t get the reads. You can pretty much tell the stale and stuffy ones out there as they don’t understand how Twitter works, it’s not like ...
Quest Diagnostics gets European CE Mark for H1N1 (Swine) Flu Test
The test has been approved here in the US by emergency declaration a few months ago. Quest recently posted 3rd quarter profits of 1.9 billion so they are doing a lot of tests. I did a short interview with their VP of sales with MedPlus, ...
