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BEWARE THE MEMORY UNIT AT YOUR LOCAL ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY

Filed Under (Legal Medical) by Admin on 16-01-2010

Assisted Living Facilities (ALFs) are great places for individuals who need some minor assistance with the activities of daily living. Activities like food preparation, supervision of medications, and assistance with travel to doctors’ offices.

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Cisco’s Vision of the Future – Video Showing Virtual Assistants and Microsoft Surface With Healthcare

Filed Under (The Medical) by Admin on 16-01-2010

This shows some very neat technology.  First of all we have the virtual assistant, which I have talked about before on the blog. 

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Why Are Health Care Organizations’ Ethics Codes News?

Filed Under (Health Care) by Admin on 16-01-2010

This just in from the Orlando Sentinel,
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ScrubsGallery.com – January Reader Discount

Filed Under (The Medical) by Admin on 15-01-2010

Again, I thank ScrubsGallery.com for advertising with the Medical Quack. 

This month they are offering a discount on Hello Kitty Scrubs with the special code below.  BD 

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ABINGDON MEDICAL MALPRACTICE ATTORNEY

Filed Under (Legal Medical) by Admin on 15-01-2010

Over the last few years, Dan and I have learned one very useful tip about some attorneys in SW Virginia.

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Yet Another Service Profession to be Revolutionized by IT

Filed Under (Health Care) by Admin on 15-01-2010

As in healthcare, here is yet another claim — of the ‘bellicose grandiosity’ variety — that IT will “revolutionize” a service profession.

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Pfizer To Continue MAINTAIN Patient Assistance Program for an Additional Year – Medications Free for the Unemployed

Filed Under (The Medical) by Admin on 14-01-2010

Pfizer was gracious enough to make this offer last year and it continues on for one more year so if you are unemployed, find out about the program if you need help with medications.  Also this year they are adding on many of the Wyeth medications on the market too, so it gets a little better this year.  image

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Meaningfully Experimental Protocols and Interfaces to Nowhere: Nagging Questions On Healthcare IT Remain

Filed Under (Health Care) by Admin on 14-01-2010

Despite a massive push in our (yet-unnamed) U.S. national program for health IT in the past year (which I shall cristen as the NPfIT in the HHS), nagging questions about healthcare IT remain.

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Walgreen Pilot Program – Consultation with the Pharmacist Who Sends Meeting Details to Primary MD

Filed Under (The Medical) by Admin on 14-01-2010

Theres no mention on how the information gets back to the Primary MD, and with many not being on electronic records, Im guessing either a phone conversation or fax will be the method.  This is being conducted in a limited area.  image

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OVERMEDICATION IN NURSING HOMES

Filed Under (Legal Medical) by Admin on 14-01-2010

I want to write about something that upsets me to my core… Something that happens every day in America’s nursing homes. Something, that if truly exposed, would shock and horrify people.

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