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What next, and I do have to say I have never heard of anyone wanting to drink in order to get a sufficient supply of vitamin, as you dont go to a bar to normally seek out vitamins either.  Marketing, marketing, marketing.I would have no idea if this has any effect on the taste but there is a video you can watch with a couple folks saying its ok.  This was the dream of an MIT graduate and is being sold in San Francisco as the starting market place. 

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At an Aug. 2009 post “Why Siemens Healthcare Fails” I described medical informatics talent management issues that were apparent in a job posting at Siemens Medical Solutions, a company that a decade ago seemed to value medical informatics expertise. (They in fact wanted to hire me then, an offer former employees tell me I was fortunate to have rejected due to a better offer from pharma).

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This is the strangest story here and in reading it, the procedures for investigating were wrong.  I look at the Sheriff who got a search order and went to confiscate the computers of the nurses from their home.  Certainly it sounds like theres unanswered questions on both sides of this story, both the doctors side with complaints, the nurses side with their spotless reputation certainly creates doubts. 

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He speaks out for the public option and how it is needed and was one of the youngest Congressmen elected and represents a district in New York.  He says he has one of the jobs that Obama created.  Joe Lieberman is discussed, is he a dick, Jon asks, Anthony Weiner says yes, funny!

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I know some people find it so hard to be healthy. They don’t want to give up some of their favorite foods in order to be healthy. You see so many people like that. They make excuse after excuse to justify them eating something they shouldn’t be eating. So, my question to you is: Do you think that it is too hard to be healthy? Please let me know your answer in the poll?

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A few months ago I  wrote about CareMore in southern California investing in business intelligence claim and cost software services and now we have another in northern California.  Companies as such are making a ton of money with providing software that evaluates and presents business models to save cost and hopefully improve health care outcomes. As you read through here, an audit trail of all activity for each patient is created. 

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For the end of the week, a round-up of the latest legal settlements involving large health care organizations, in alphabetical order….

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I have been working on a few computers here lately and this conversation came up again as to wanting to use Speech Recognition and I cant begin to count the number of times I tell people if you have Windows Vista, its included in the operating system, just go set it up and try it out.  For some strange reason this seems to be one of the best kept secrets that nobody knows about!  How long has Vista been out?  Its been there that long.

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George Whitesides, the Chemist from Harvard has a profile that can be read here.  He is discussing using paper for more diagnostic tests.  Theres a special printer that works with the paper to create the objects.  He touches on the subject we all love to hate or hate to love, compliance. With using his Lab on a piece of paper the size of a stamp, it can be checked to see if the medication has been taken.  One big problem in all of this is how do you produce a product without there being a big profit to be made he asks?  BD 

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I spend a great deal of time every week talking to families about their possible medical malpractice claims. Many are amazed that despite what they believe to be an obvious physician error, I do not recommend filing suit.

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