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- Should drug companies know what the doctor prescribed
- One of the big controversies heading for the Supremes Court's docket soon will probably be the case of IMS Health vs. Ayotte. It's an interesting test case on what data can do for medicine, asking whether we want it done or not. At issue...
- Tags: Patient, Data, Doctor, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-05-11
- Is RealAge a scam?
- In most consumer markets there is nothing going on here. There is no scandal if I get you to fill out a form on cars and then send you a car ad. Or a travel ad. Or even a liquor ad, assuming you're over 21. The problems of the drug...
- Tags: Advertisement, Brand, Doctor, RealAge, Stephanie Clifford, Branding, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-03-27
- Automatic Doctors Calls With Excel 2.12 (Windows)
- Automatically schedule up to 25 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, Microsoft Windows, Shift Schedules, Microsoft Excel, Smart Phones, PDAs, Microsoft Office, Productivity, Handhelds, Office Suites, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware
- Software downloads 2009-03-27
- Doctors Calls for a Year with Excel 4.16 (Windows)
- 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, Microsoft Windows, Shift Schedules, Productivity, Microsoft Excel, Smart Phones, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2009-03-20
- Gagging patients from online criticism
- A 9-year outfit called Medical Justice is pushing a gag order doctors can make patients sign which keeps them from criticizing the docs online. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Patient, Doctor, Consumer Advocate, DrScore, Center For Peer Review Justice, Marketing Research, Web 2.0, Marketing, Internet, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-03-04
- Paper based medical care is teh sux
- Getting a common medical procedure done should be easy. When paper gets involved it all breaks down. If it takes a little stimulus to make doctors less a pain in the you-know-where, I'm for it. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Doctor, E-health, Healthcare, Benefits, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-02-13
- Health IT opponents push Harry & Louise, but think Thelma
- Better data means better decisions. Better data means more productive doctors, more patients getting care, and a better chance you will survive what ails you. Better data, at the point of care, is a necessity if we are to meet our enormous and growing needs for health care. by Dana...
- Tags: Doctor, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-02-09
- How to stop treating doctors like mushrooms
- What we need to do is emphasize how health IT can increase the value and prestige of line physicians. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Patient, Information Technology, Doctor, Doctors, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-02-06
- The Kibbe-Klepper challenge to medicine as usual
- Medicine is both science and art, say doctors. But for how long will it stay that way in a world where data rules? by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Doctor, Decision Support, Data Mining, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-01-08
- Turns out my doctor goofed
- This is what studies like this are for, to evaluate two worthy treatments and see which works better with a lot of people. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Study, Doctor, Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-12-05
- DeskTop Health Records Express Edition 1.0 (Windows)
- DeskTop Health Records is a downloadable application that runs on your PC with no connection to the Internet. Provides total privacy of data. Keep track of Doctor's visits, their comments, your comments, specialist info, drugs info,phone numbers. You can print data records, take your health history to a doctors visit,...
- Tags: Desktop, Doctor, Health Care, Microsoft Windows, IdeaTalent, DeskTop Health Records, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Internet, E-mail, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2008-11-21
- How doctors may benefit from personal health records
- When "2 messages are coordinated to reinforce each another," the study concluded, compliance improved 12.5%, the quality of care improved, and the doctor-patient relationship was improved as well. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Benefit, Personal Health Record, Dana Blankenhorn, Patient, Doctor, E-health, Healthcare
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- The real health care change we need
- A sea change is needed in doctors' attitudes everywhere concerning the value of tools we here take for granted. Doc, I know you have a Blackberry, maybe even an iPhone. Do you know you can reach me on it? by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Health Care, Productivity, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Handhelds, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Hardware, Dana Blankenhorn, Payment, Patient, Doctor, King, E-mail, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Operational Accounting, Online Communications, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Finance
- Blog posts 2008-10-29
- Placebos the right prescription for the overwrought
- The best family doctors are psychologists and trusted friends, not just gatekeepers. Some things can't be cured. People die. Conduct a practice in the real world and you learn that. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Dana Blankenhorn, Patient, Dr., Doctor, Pill, British Medical Journal, AMA
- Blog posts 2008-10-24
- iMergency 1.0 (Mobile)
- When you need to call the fire brigade, an ambulance or the police, is it always '911'? How about your doctor's number when someone in your family falls ill or is injured? Can't remember your doctor's number? Need to scroll through your Contacts | Favourites list? Every second counts... Use...
- Tags: Mobile, Doctor, Telecom & Utilities
- Software downloads 2008-10-21
- How electronic records reach your doctor
- In medicine change comes from the top down. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Electronic Record, Dana Blankenhorn, Hospital, Electronic Health Record, Doctor, Microsoft Corp., E-health, Healthcare
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- Caribbean medical schools and the primary care shortage
- Remember Grenada? (Picture from the eightiesclub.) The reason given to invade this tiny Caribbean nation, in 1983, was to save some Americans attending a Caribbean medical school because their grades were too low for U.S. places. Now the question is, is an invasion of graduates...
- Tags: Shortage, Doctor, E-health, Healthcare, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- Retrofitting for a digital age
- With this kind of retrofitting the future does not have to look much different from the past or present. The innovation is inside, and transparent. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Doctor, Leadership, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
- House Effect bad for patients
- Brilliant people are especially difficult. They know they're brilliant. They're told they are from a young age. Many become the intellectual equivalent of superstar athletes, cosseted and coddled, spoiled and dangerous. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Patient, Doctor, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-07-10
- Might we see a doctors' strike?
- Despite America's lack of labor protections, its doctors' presumption that they are professionals, not workers, and a dispersed industry where no one has great market share, a slow motion strike may in fact be underway here. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Strike, Doctor, Doctors, Family Doctor, E-health, Operational Accounting, Healthcare, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
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