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This is a good study I think as a user of Twitter I can clearly say those without any personality dont get the reads. You can pretty much tell the stale and stuffy ones out there as they dont understand how Twitter works, its not like putting an ad online, this is interactive. Best Buy uses it for customer service.
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I talk about this quite a bit here, especially since I am actively involved and have helped my own 85 year old mother with putting her records into a PHR. I also was skeptical about the success when initially announced, again going back to lack of education and training. PHRs are not just something you put out there and wait for the consumers to show up, education and training is needed in order to SHOW VALUE. We seem to have a difficult time with this word value all over the place today from non-participants and the only way to create value is to educate. 
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More Robots, these do dishes and make coffee and you control them remotely! OK.Heres a page with some videos.
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My local paper (The Roanoke Times) ran an Associated Press article yesterday entitled, “Tracking Technology Applies to Patients.” The article discussed the development of radio wave beacons and GPS systems to help families and nursing homes know the whereabouts of patients suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease. This is great news for a terrible problem.
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In June, 2009, an article in the Boston Globe described how the Boston area based biotechnology company Genzyme sold some astonishlingly expensive drugs, using
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The big test touted here is testing for heart disease. The chip is portable and the patient has to donate less blood and/or urine. This is amazing that
results would be available in a couple of minutes, no more waiting for the long lab reports.
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Just last week Office Ally announced new information regarding their PHR, personal health records, and security and privacy is something that is on everyones mind 
today. With the EHNAC accreditation added, they have met the standards set forth so this goes forward to show the commitment to security and privacy. You can read more about the process here. View the post from last week at the link below on EHR, PHR and Clearing house services.
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I spoke to a lovely woman yesterday about a Medical Malpractice case. Her husband had gone through an unecessary surgery.
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Adriane Fugh-Berman MD is principal investigator (PI) of the PharmedOut project. PharmedOut is an independent, publicly funded Georgetown University Medical Center project that educates physicians about industry influence on prescribing. project that empowers physicians to identify and counter inappropriate pharmaceutical promotion practices. PharmedOut promotes evidence-based medicine by providing news, resources, and links to pharma-free CME courses.
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In his usual style, Jon Stewart comments on comments we are hearing today and what sense they do or do not make. The baby is right lets do 
what the baby wants! Rep John Shadegg from Arizona brings a baby in, and the baby wants to keep her plan! After this, Pete Stark from California raised him with 2 tweens (teenagers).