Fight Health Worries|Healthy Living Techniques

Sociometers, a new term for me, but somewhat addresses one of my concerns that I speak about on the blog.  Behavior logging, does this fall into meaningful use?  As I have mentioned before there are insurers who are trying to use devices to report our state of being, blood pressure, etc. in real time to parties who are contracted to do this (outside of the patient/MD relationship), in order to allow employers to have a cheaper group insurance rate.  The study mentioned here is not related in that aspect, but brings up a good point on how our legal statutes are lagging way behind in this area. 

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No…I am not making up this story.

Officials at a Providence, Rhode Island hospital have reported an oral surgeon began operating on the wrong part of a patient’s mouth this week before discovering the error. It’s the fifth wrong-site surgery in the last two years in the Lifespan hospital chain. This time the “mistake” occurred at Hasbro Children’s Hospital.

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This sounds like the next device to work with HealthVault too.  With the HL-7 standards or continuity of care record process, information can be transferred, which is what we like, no manual data entry. 

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Physicains are well-educated, well-trained professionals with high standards…correct? Well, someone forgot to tell Dr. Gomez in Richlands, Virginia.

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These are the folks who work on projects that are not being researched in labs, and by todays standards too, theres a lot more to gain if you know what you are doing.  In the 70s we didnt have the extensive knowledge that exists today on the internet. 

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Dherbs is a very good natural health website. This website is great if you want to learn how to heal yourself naturally. It has everything. From detoxing to eating a healthy diet. This is a website that should defintiely be in your favorites list.

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I’ve written about a physician who documents the HIT travails Down Under that parallel the ones we have here - and are going to have a lot more of in a mad rush to universal health IT supposedly by 2014.

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Might this have any cause on the reason admission are down?  People are walking out and refusing services as they are afraid they cant or wont be able to pay.  Overall it sounds like all the preventive care we have been trying to build is falling down the tubes in a hurry with the economy. 

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Medical associations have been telling state legislators (and the public in general) that unless America curbs the right of patients to file medical malpractice cases, all of the doctors are just going to pack up their medical bags and stethoscopes and quit.

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