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Wait a minute, dont these same companies have business models to sell painkillers?  As you can see pharma suggested more education, which is always a good thing and there has been talk along with one company submitting a reformulated version of a drug to the FDA for approval.  Pharma no doubtedly will offer help and add suggestions, but dont touch that business model that generates profits for us.  If you are not part of a solution then you could very well be part of the problem so pharma is of course a participant here.  Granted pain killers cant be removed from the market as there are short term use and some long term use that is needed.  If you have ever gone under the knife or had some major dental work done, you know what I am talking about as aspirin and Tylenol for a a few days wont cut it. 

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Here we go, back to healthcare costs, when helping other countries now too.  Some of the patients airlifted to Florida have insurance, some are eligible and some dont have insurance.  Florida is struggling with their own hospital costs with taking care of us at present and still taking in patients from Haiti.  HHS said they did not stop the airlifts and that it was the militarys decision. 

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Do you know someone who was given the wrong drug by their pharmacist? Do you know someone who was administered the wrong drug by a nurse? How about someone who received the correct drug from a nurse working in the hospital or nursing home, but via the wrong route of administration (IV or IM)? My bet is that you do know someone like this…maybe several someones.

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The company in October originally refused the request of the FDA not to search the factory and then they returned later to seize the devices.  In some countries this therapy is legal, but not in the United States and the FDA warns against some of the products use due to infections, etc. that could result.  BD 

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Back in the early days of Health Care Renewal (2005, to be exact), we first wrote about some very strange actions by the management of Phoebe Putney Health System.  At first, we noted that the Phoebe Putney responded to a reporter’s inquiry about lavish travel expenses pertaining to the system’s Cayman Islands health insurance subsidiary by saying, “We own it. We’ll manage it the way we damn well want.”

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This is a large breakthrough in the fact that new drugs can be designed and perhaps less toxic to attack specific targets.  As mentioned this study will appear in PLos Genetics journal.  Look at the computing power here, as the article states results were analyzed more than a billion times. 

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I think this will make perfect sense with integrating HealthVault for use with connecting to German EMR Systems.  Back in October of 2009 I had the opportunity to meet many different representatives from different countries at the World Medical Tourism Conference and one of the most interesting was Dr. Kunhardt from Germany, from the University of Deggenndorf.  Heres a portion of that post below with some links to an active sample German EHR.

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I’ve written several blogs about Medicare’s Five-Star Rating System and how many of the nursing homes in Virginia receive failing grades. If you are interested in finding out the ratings of many of the nursing homes in Southwest Virginia just search this blog for …”best nursing homes Roanoke”…or “best nursing homes Abingdon”…you get the idea.

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Earlier this week, we noted that while executives at one University of California medical center were getting large bonuses supposedly for “improved patient health,” the hospital was being cited for serious health care quality deficiencies.  Now, more stories have appeared that raise questions about the rationale for the generous bonuses handed out to multiple top hospital executives at University of California hospitals. 

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  We all know what bundled software is from our home computers that we buy and now it appears that this is making its way into the EHR/EMR and Practice Management business.  Last year Dell partnered with Sams Club and another EHR system.

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