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Top personnel management mistakes

Top personnel management mistakesHIDDEN MEDICAL CONDITIONS CAUSING POOR PERFORMANCEA top performer for 8 years starts performing poorly. After local medical evaluation, numerous counselings, warnings--termination.A week later emergency room for first ever grand mal seizure results in brain tumor diagnosis and removal.(immediate reversal of termination and prayer avoid lawsuit for...

Tags: Workforce management, termination, personnel management mistake, personnel management, Tumor

Discussion threads 2006-09-21

Study: Long-term cell use raises brain tumor risk

Study: Long-term cell use raises brain tumor riskStudy: Long-term cell use raises brain tumor riskI always use a hands-free kit. I can actually hear the other caller and they can hear me. Sound quality is much better, and I don't have the radiation next to my brain.Oh, for...

Tags: diagnosis, Long-term cell use, phone, cell use, cell phone, tumor, Brain Tumor

Discussion threads 2006-03-31

Additional Resources

AidScans 4.3 (Windows)

Volume estimation application. The program takes set of object slices provided by a scanner. The software is used for medical imaging purposes, especially for brain tumors obtained from MRI and CT scanners volume calculations. The program is usable for breast, chest, liver and another organs tumor calculations as well as...

Tags: Organ, Medical Imaging, I/O, Microsoft Windows, Tool, AnyIntelli, Scanners, Productivity, Healthcare, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2009-11-17

Cutting imaging proves a win-win-win

Ionizing Radiation Is Very Dangerousand must be employed very, very carefully.If it's not absolutely necessary, [u]don't[/u].Anyone familiar with nuclear physics, engineering, or medicine knows that it only takes one ionizing radiation event to damage one single cell's DNA such that the cell becomes malignantly cancerous to start a life-threatening illness.Any...

Tags: Document management, Vertical industries, win-win-win, imaging, health care, patient

Discussion threads 2009-08-27

Progenetix 1.1 (Mac)

This is a Dashboard widget to access the Progenetix molecular-cytogenetic online database (www.progenetix.net), the largest collection of genomic aberration data in human malignancies analyzed by Comparative Genomic Hybridization. Input: a chromosomal band, e.g. containing a suspected oncogene; output: a sorted list of tumor entities with a high frequency of chromosomal...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Progenetix

Software downloads 2009-03-09

Where cheaper is not better

Where cheaper is not better$2,500 -v- $40,000The cost of an PET/CT or MRI scan was about $2,500 when I had mine and a round of radiation or chemo is going to be at least $40,000. Identifying the efficacy of a treatment early can save some major dollars when the...

Tags: Financial Planning, HEALTHCARE, PET/CT, insurance

Discussion threads 2009-03-06

Google Health opens pandora box of PHR sharing

Google Health opens pandora box of PHR sharingBut will the doctor be suedwhen he treats a patient incorrectlly as the patient did not want the doctor to know information because they felt "embarrased" about it, or felt it was not important enough to share with the doctor?Let doctors determine what...

Tags: Podcasts, Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, E-health, patient, PHR, health care, Google Health, podcast, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-03-05

Look, Ma! Twitter's useful!

OK, so it lacks the ring of that old catch-phrase, "Look, Ma! No hands!" but given my own mother's dubiousness about the utility of Twitter (aside to keep track of what I'm doing since I don't call her enough), I thought it was appropriate. I wanted to just post...

Tags: Twitter, Productivity, Blogging, Internet, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-02-17

Stem cell dam broken?

Stem cell dam broken?They delayed progress for 8 years and in 5 we will have curesI hope every single person who was against stem cell reasearch for religious reasons is in a car wreck and is severly disabled.Those who are scientifically opposed, i disagree with you. I realize there...

Tags: stem-cell, cell, adult stem-cell, embryonic stem, embryonic stem cell

Discussion threads 2009-01-26

Jobs considering liver transplant due to cancer complications

When it comes to reporting on the health of a CEO, it's shaky territory, but once it hits the wires, it must be done. Apple CEO Steve Jobs is considering a liver transplant as a result of complications after treatment for pancreatic cancer in 2004, according to...

Tags: Job, Steve Jobs, Health Care, Apple Inc., Bloomberg L.P., CEO, Public Relations, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Corporate Governance, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-01-16

Jobs to take medical leave; Cook in charge; Will Jobs appear at WWDC?

Updated: Apple CEO Steve Jobs said Wednesday that he will take a medical leave until the end of June to focus on his health. In the meantime, chief operating officer Tim Cook right will take over day-to-day operations. The news (Techmeme, Apple statement) is likely to start...

Tags: Job, Steve Jobs, Health Care, Apple Inc., Tim Cook, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-14

McKinsley blames technology for our health care woes

McKinsley blames technology for our health care woesGive us old folks the little blue pillNo, not Viagra.Samuelson is obviously one of the more affluent of us as we move toward old age. Quite happy to increase costs of medical care and reduce expensive services for those on Medicare. ...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, Benefits, Samuelson, health care, McKinsley, health care woe

Discussion threads 2009-01-12

Apple's Jobs being treated for 'hormone imbalance'; Will remain at helm

Apple's Jobs being treated for 'hormone imbalance'; Will remain at helmThe opposite would have happened at Microsoft...If rumors were that Steve Ballmer's health was failing and he would have to step down as CEO of Microsoft, Microsoft stock would probably triple over night. There's no denying that top leadership is...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, imbalance, job, Apple Inc., Apple job

Discussion threads 2009-01-05

DeCODE turning genes into medical practice

DeCODE turning genes into medical practiceJust don't let the insurance companies knowI can see a point in the future when medical insurance companies will run one of these tests as part of their acceptance procedures. Same with life insurance companies. Maybe, like pre-existing conditions, they need to be...

Tags: Insurance, Financial Planning, insurance company, PSA

Discussion threads 2008-12-15

MRI scans are too routine

MRI scans are too routineWhat would you rather have?Would you have them be 'too routine' or not used enough? Personally, I'll go for the latter.Forget sports when making a judgementSports medicine uses MRIs far more than the general population simply because they have some high priced players that play in...

Tags: Document management, MRI, MRI Scans

Discussion threads 2008-12-12

Does seeing a chiropractor make me bad?

Does seeing a chiropractor make me bad?No...it doesn't make you bad...maybe a little foolish, however.As one who just about has his Orthopedist on retainer, Chiropractors are not a group I care to use. They do not cure/fix a problem, they just alleviate pain. Not a bad thing mind you, but...

Tags: chiropractor

Discussion threads 2008-12-12

The Washington Manual of Oncology 6.0.7 (Mobile)

In this era of information overload, it is critically important to have a practical manual that is helpful to physicians taking care of patients with cancer. The Washington Manualâ?¢ of Oncology puts authoritative patient management recommendations at the clinician's fingertips. Users can quickly search for any tumor type at any...

Tags: Patient, Mobile, Clinician, Skyscape Inc.

Software downloads 2008-10-21

LiveBlog: Apple's notebook event

LiveBlog: Apple's notebook eventThat Jobs fellow always looking out for us![i]Jobs said the licensing for Blu-Ray technology is still too complex to burden customers with the costs associated with it.[/i]Thanks Jobs! I'll be thinking of you while watching Blu-Ray movies on my HTPC Vista machine that cost me ~$60...

Tags: Notebooks, Desktops, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Apple Inc., LiveBlog, notebook event, notebook

Discussion threads 2008-10-14

A robot to destroy breast cancer cells

Researchers at the University of Maryland are developing a robot able to detect and destroy breast cancer cells in a single session. After a tumor is located on an MRI, the robot will perform a biopsy of the breast while the patient is inside the scanner. 'If the biopsy displays...

Tags: Breast Cancer, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Rod, Cell, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Linus Pauling's revenge

Levine's study gave cancer to mice, then injected them with Vitamin C, and found tumor growth in the injected mice was cut 53%. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: dr., c, vitamin, linus pauling, levine, drisko, dana blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-08-08