Fight Health Worries|Healthy Living Techniques

 Amazon, Google and Microsoft are the 3 big players for now in the Cloud market.   For the purpose of this post, we are talking about external clouds.  There is also the internal cloud which is a virtual machine configuration.   The FDA already trusts secure external servers for e-mail communication of clinical trial data, and recently were testing their own internal or private cloud. 

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We posted earlier this year about how documents produced on discovery and recently unsealed during litigation suggested how AstraZeneca handled clinical research data in the marketing of its atypical anti-psychotic drug Seroquel (quetiapine). A new crop of documents has just been released, providing yet more insights, as reported by the St Petersburg (Florida) Times:
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Yesterday I posted about the American Cancer Society Circle of Sharing Tool and had a reader post the comment below, which I think is well worth taking a look at.  There are multitudes of social networks on the web where patients can and are encouraged to share their medical information, information on how they are battling cancer and other diseases, etc. and I warn all to be careful where you post this information or use an alias.  There are others out on the web who mine this information daily on an automated query process, so be careful by all means so you are not putting something out there that could work against you later, we have all heard the stories of people finding information about you on My Space, potential employers check it all the time.

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In my Feb. 18, 2009 Wall Street Journal letter to the editor I wrote:

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The system can co-exist without interrupting other Wi-Fi services, so it appears that dead zones would not be an issue.  They also have devices that can be worn and sterilized too.  One the device is plugged in, ensuring you have a live plug too, it immediately becomes a node.  RFID technology is good for keeping track of those 13k stents.  BD  

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It is nice to make statements to somehow convey helping but for some reason its the lack of transparency with the company that I think tends to give them a tarnished reputation.  Last I looked, Senator Rockefeller was still waiting to see if any of the federal employees were hit with the Ingenix overcharge situation and then the AMA and several states still have filed lawsuits in that area too. 

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This is indeed a strange side effect, and obviously he might have trouble with biometric devices for logging on with a fingerprint too.  Now he will need to carry a letter stating the reason for the lack of prints from his doctor.  This had to be a new one for airport security here in the US.  BD  

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I think what I termed “irrational exuberance” over health IT is now devolving into just simple irrationality.

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When you stop and think about it, mobility is the calling, along with interconnectivity.  We have only begun to touch the Wi-Fi world in healthcare. What is also helping is the ability of devices now to connect with Bluetooth, so the information can be beamed up.  For our social  needs we now have Facebook on mobile phones.  

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Dr Margaret Hamburg, having been confirmed by the US Senate, is the new commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). We posted twice about whether her and her family’s financial relationships might be relevant to her nomination.

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