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Video: Glenn Beck Attacks Barbara Duck
Oh the marvels of technology, just sign in to Facebook and you can have Glenn Beck attack you too. The pictures are classic! Be sure you have a Facebook picture on your profile that you like as this is how it shows up.
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It amazes me how many people tell us about their loved ones who were recently hospitalized and, upon discharge, discover their father, mother, brother, or sister suffers from a pressure sore or decubitus ulcer. Unfortunately, I have grown accustomed to hearing these horror stories about nursing homes but hospitals….what in the world is going on?
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Again, I thank ScrubsGallery.com for advertising with the Medical Quack.
This month they are offering a discount on Baby Phat Scrubs with the special code below. BD
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The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology of HHS (the Department of Health and Human Services) has issued a proposed rule “RIN 0991-AB59 Proposed Establishment of Certification Programs for Health Information Technology.” The proposed rule is available in PDF at this link and more information is available from ONC itself at this link.
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I hate to say it, but nursing home care may get worse in Virginia.
With our state in a serious budget crisis, Medicaid spending will likely be cut.
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We are back to the same 3 companies again, Johnson and Johnson, Boston Scientific and Abbott, same questions over patents and more legal expenses to pass 
along to consumers in the price of a stent. If these 3 could settle their differences and make some donations for charity instead of all these legal battles, that would really be nice.
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At “Bungled Brachytherapy, Computer Interfaces and Other Mysteries At The Philadelphia Veterans Administration Hospital” at this link I reported on serious problems involving brachytherapy treatment of prostate cancer at the VA Medical Center in Philadelphia.
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This is how one country is doing it, with the Government jumping in for relief. Granted Australia is not quite as bad in the economic hurt area as the US is right now so they have some additional positives going in their direction. What is being emphasized here too is standards and better healthcare IT integration. 
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The VA and DoD have been working for a number of years on interfacing the VistA EHR system and the military’s EHR, AHLTA (why anyone would want to interface to AHLTA in its present state is of concern to me, but…)
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This was a survey taken before the big consumer electronics show in Hanover, Germany started. I guess this could mean some potential sales for the folks at PositiveID who manufacture the chip and the software that now allows reporting to personal health records. Im not ready for a chip yet myself. BD