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Private medical records have been offered for sale in the U.K.
And quite cheaply, too…
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Just last week I posted about the new EHR being offered by MedPlus Care 360. In addition they are now offering a 6 month free trial of their e-prescribing solution as well. Also in the news for Quest was the FDA approval for the test to detect H1N1 Swine flu, and hopefully not too many of us will need that and stay healthy, but if we do, its there. 
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In today’s Roanoke Times is a heartfelt article about a young man from Roanoke, who was injured while serving in Afganastan: “19-year-old Spc. Jesse Clingenpeel of Roanoke County had always wanted to be in the military. In seconds, his dream was changed” according to the Roanoke Times.
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If I were a proprietary health IT vendor, the following bolded passage in the new Healthcare Bill (PDF here) would make me a bit nervous:
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You might think twice about shaking hands today, something that has been around for years and perhaps a more Asian style of a nod could catch on. At the grocery stores you are starting to see wipe where you can sanitize the push handle, which again could be a harbor for spreading any kind of virus or bacteria that lives on a surface. I learn a lot by writing this blog and now I know what beer pong is:)
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Our firm gets a local weekly newspaper called BLUE RIDGE BUSINESS JOURNAL. In September, an article (OP-ED Actually) was written about caregivers and how sometimes it is better for everyone to place that loved one in a facility rather than going through the struggle of providing care to an elderly parent.
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You can find the link right on the product page to the video below. Apparently the company is expanding use of their social networking with hiring 
these 2 funny guys to give the rundown on the Spanner Product.
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Healthcare IT is a perfected, safe technology, one might think, from the P.R. it’s getting all the way up to the President of the United States.
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Stanford Hospital and Clinics started a trial program recently with Apple, as they also use Epic. Why does this not surprise me? Epic has to be the most popular large hospital software around today and the iPhone the same for cell phones. I did an interview earlier this year with Long Beach Memorial on their transition to Epic which describes the massive training efforts and attention to detail at their conversion.
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Palomar is going ahead on their own to bring the anti wrinkle consumer device to market. As you can see from a prior post below, the product is a 
home use patented FDA approved laser device for removing wrinkles and more. Palomar agreed that current economic conditions didnt warrant a huge product launch with the additional required revenue so they have developed their own plan that will follow launching on a smaller scale. According to the article, the product should launch some time next year. BD