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- How this blog saved my life and saved me $100,000
- A few months back, I told you about how my neck had gone bad, really bad. At that time, I was in the middle of a six-month dive into pain, alleviated only by gobbling unwholesome quantities of Percoset. Three weeks ago last Friday, I had an amazing surgery that relieved...
- Tags: Blog, Doctor, Disc, Health Care, Surgery, Healthcare, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-04-20
- A HIX tax moves ahead in Vermont
- The Vermont House voted 119-19 last night to keep a tax on medical claims aimed at paying for computing systems in doctors' offices and an online network to trade the records. The fee would raise $33 million over the next 10 years and would allow all doctors...
- Tags: Fee, Electronic Health Record, Doctor, E-health, Healthcare, Taxes, Financial Planning, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-03
- Macdoctor
- Two generations ago we thought of doctors as carrying just a single black bag. In one of John Huston's first screenplays, "The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse," the doctor's black bag is a key device. The doctor, played by Edward G. Robinson, holds stolen jewels in it, but no...
- Tags: Doctor, GE Healthcare, Document Management, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- On living with your doctor
- Aerotel has announced the GeoSkeeper, a Global Positioning System-enabled, wrist-mounted unit that alerts a call center when you press its panic button. The call center can also track your position and raise an alert when you leave predefined zones such as your school. In addition to the GeoSkeeper (can you...
- Tags: Doctor, Monitoring, Health Care, Aerotel, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Call Centers, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, It Operations, Ed Gottsman
- Blog posts 2008-03-11
- Practice Fusion - an RIA targeted at doctors in the field
- The New York Times has a piece today about Practice Fusion, a San Francisco startup that's using Flex and the concept of rich Internet applications to make a splash in the medical world by providing doctors a free EMR, or electronic medical records application. There are a couple of things...
- Tags: User Interface, Problem, Doctor, New York Times Co., Rich Internet Application, EMR System, Channel Management, Web 2.0, E-health, Web Browsers, Marketing, Internet, Healthcare, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- The big pharma credibility gap
- Whenever I visit my family doctor the candyman is there. The candyman is my nickname for my doctor's drug rep, or "detail man." His candy consists of samples. Sometimes, if my symptoms are right, I get some. Candymen may have more to do with your medical visit than...
- Tags: Generic, Industry, Doctor, Fiction, Candyman, Oxfam, Strategy, Corporate Law, Management, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-01-17
- Google Earth for the body
- This is the expression used by an IBM researcher to describe the software he developed for visualizing electronic health records eHRs in 3-D. In a long article, IEEE Spectrum describes the IBM's Anatomic and Symbolic Mapper Engine ASME, which maps the information in a patient's eHR to a 3-D image...
- Tags: Software, 3D, Google Inc., Patient, Electronic Health Record, Doctor, Google Earth, Image, IBM Corp., E-health, Healthcare, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-01-12
- Weight Tracker-Log and Track Your Weight (zip)
- Measuring your weight can help you and your doctor choose the correct diet and/or drug regiment to control such disorders as congestive heart failure. Body weight measured in the doctor's office may be higher than at other times. The use of home scales can more accurately measure one's overall, or...
- Tags: Weight, Doctor, Weight Tracker, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Software downloads 2007-11-29
- Automatic doctors Calls with Excel (zip)
- Automatically schedule up to 100 doctors to 10 daily calls each day for up to a year with Excel. Call preferences and qualifications are combined with doctor availability and call history each day to randomly select who is assigned to each call. Holiday and weekend calls, as well as weekday...
- Tags: Doctor, E-mail, Microsoft Excel, Smart Phones, PDAs, Microsoft Office, Online Communications, Office Suites, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Handhelds, Hardware
- Software downloads 2007-11-14
- doctors Calls for a Year with Excel (zip)
- The Doctors Call Scheduler Excel spreadsheet schedules doctor's daily calls for a full year. You simply specify the doctor's names and the number of doctors that need to be on call each day of the week. You then proceed to assign first call, second call, etc. until sufficient calls have...
- Tags: Call, Doctor, Spreadsheet, Productivity, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2007-11-14
- Daily Calls and Tasks for 20 doctors (zip)
- Schedule 4 calls and 50 daily tasks to 20 doctors for one year. Call assignments and tasks are made via drop-down menus. You can specify the doctors available for each task allowing you to associate tasks with special requirements with doctors having special qualifications. Task and call assignment statistics are...
- Tags: Doctor, Spreadsheet, Microsoft Outlook, Smart Phones, PDAs, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Productivity, Handhelds, Office Suites, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Enterprise Software
- Software downloads 2007-11-14
- Do doctors need Web 2.0?
- Most people think of Web 2.0 social networking sites as places to find business contacts or the latest hot boy bands. But can they help you make a proper diagnosis? And should that site be working closely with any vendor? Sermo, a site for...
- Tags: Web, Idea, Doctor, Site, Web 2.0, Social Networking, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-10-15
- Today's Debate: Do you take advantage of good insurance?
- I have "the good insurance." But when some doctors see my policy I fear they also see a sign on me reading "sucker." I had one practitioner, I won't mention his name or specialty, whose assistant really knew how to work the system. He...
- Tags: Doctor, Health Care, Pill, Insurance, Financial Planning, Healthcare, Benefits, Vertical Industries, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-10-05
- Even young doctors paralyzed by health record debate
- Today's post is late because I had my regular check-up this morning. It was with my doctor's new partner. She takes blood pressure well. That's always been one of the older doctor's pet peeves. The practice is in good hands. Then the first thing...
- Tags: Doctor, Health Care, Healthcare, E-health, PDAs, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Handhelds, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-09-27
- Diabetes Tracker (msi)
- Tracks your blood sugar readings for diabetic users. The program records unlimited readings per day and allows you to also pick the time of the reading if you wish. Your readings are available in printed format, which you can give to your doctor. An average reading is also available in...
- Tags: Blood, Doctor, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components
- Software downloads 2007-02-01
- MigraineMemos (zip)
- If you suffer from a very complicated migraine, this application will help to write down when your attacks occured. Features: keep diary; enter attacks, triggers, comments and compare it with the diary; get statistics, secure days, min, max, average, and total; enter medication, evaluate; enter bad and good doctors; draw...
- Tags: Diary, Doctor, Attack, Microsoft Windows, Security, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2006-12-29
- Harvard Medical School CIO: John Halamka - Transcript
- Dan Farber: John thanks for joining me. John Halamka: Very happy to be here. Dan Farber: You've been involved in the health care industry as a doctor, as a technologist for many years, and certainly the health care industry has lots of challenges ahead....
- Tags: Patient, Data, Doctor, Health Care, Standards, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, RFID, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Wireless, Security, Biometrics, Administrator
- Blog posts 2006-11-28
- Weight Tracker (exe)
- Measuring your weight can help you and your doctor choose the correct diet and/or drug regiment to control such disorders as congestive heart failure. Body weight measured in the doctor's office may be higher than at other times. The use of home scales can more accurately measure one's overall or...
- Tags: Doctor, Weight Tracker, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Software downloads 2006-02-02
- Headache Diary (exe)
- Headache Diary can help you and your doctor eliminate or control migraine and its many complications. We suggest that persons who experience more than one migraine a month keep a daily log of their headache. The Headache Diary simplifies migraine data logging. The software automatically saves date, time of the...
- Tags: Headache, Doctor, Analysis, Headache Diary, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Software downloads 2006-01-23
- NextPatientPlease (zip)
- NextPatientPlease is a Windows application that allows doctors or other professionals to inform the reception desk that they are free for the next patient client. It does not need any additional wiring but uses existing computer network. Although designed for the needs of family doctors, it can readily be used...
- Tags: Doctor, NextPatientPlease, Productivity, Networking
- Software downloads 2005-09-15
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