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This could get interesting, doctor walks into the room and needs to access patient records, but patient is in the middle of a high powered game and now that it is over the web, he/she wont quit.  Will the doctor have to wait (grin).  Cost as mentioned is a big reason for thinking about this and as more is run from the server instead of being on the desktop, who knows.  As you can read below there is testing going on to use the devices as emergency alert systems.  The way the world is evolving today and looking at cost we just cant afford one device just doing one thing can we? (grin).  BD

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Once again the drive and race for data is on the move, insurers will fall over themselves 10 times over to get a hold of data to analyze.  I agree with the comments from the Komen Foundation, an insurance company should not be doing this type of evaluation, its easy to be a Monday morning quarterback when you are not the doctor and the patient and looking at statistics only.  They live and die by all the numbers and with their numbers relative to breast cancer, look at what they do when it comes to testing for the Breast Cancer hereditary gene.  Even if they do allow it, it is all kinds of red tape for both the patient and doctor. 

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We recently commented on the challenges facing the large, Swiss based multinational pharmaceutical company Novartis.  From Business Week came an interview with the new CEO of Novartis, in which he revealed why he thinks he is especially qualified for the job:
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Last year I had a lengthy interview with Cook Medical that describe in detail how hernia repair works and the studies are now showing the graft is out performing a straight synthetic mesh.  The material is derived from the small intestine of pigs and communicates with the body, signaling surrounding tissue to grow across the scaffold, which in turn allows the body to naturally restore itself. Historically, surgical procedures have involved using plastic or synthetic repairs. These types of non-natural devices, however, often do not mesh well with the human body and thus are always a foreign product. Cooks product enables the natural reproduction of human tissues and the biologic repair becomes a natural, functioning part of the body.  BD

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This story is one of the more scary items I’ve seen reported by the media.

The New York Times ran a story about a nurse (Anne Mitchell) in Texas who informed state regulators that a doctor (Rolando G. Arafiles Jr., MD) at her rural hospital was practicing bad medicine. What did she get in return? How about a charge of misuse of official information, a third-degree felony in Texas…and a potential for 10 years in prison.

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Once again the drive and race for data is on the move, insurers will fall over themselves 10 times over to get a hold of data to analyze.  I agree with the comments from the Komen Foundation, an insurance company should not be doing this type of evaluation, its easy to be a Monday morning quarterback when you are not the doctor and the patient and looking at statistics only.  They live and die by all the numbers and with their numbers relative to breast cancer, look at what they do when it comes to testing for the Breast Cancer hereditary gene.  Even if they do allow it, it is all kinds of red tape for both the patient and doctor. 

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What happens if you get the wrong medication?
Wrong vaccine?
Wrong shot?
Wrong dose?
Wrong type of treatment?

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They say everything is up to date in Kansas City, so maybe it should not be a surprise that it is the source of a new and colorful tale of how leaders of health care organizations are different from you and me.  The Kansas City Star reported about the professional life of the recently fired CEO of Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences:

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What next, and I do have to say I have never heard of anyone wanting to drink in order to get a sufficient supply of vitamin, as you dont go to a bar to normally seek out vitamins either.  Marketing, marketing, marketing.I would have no idea if this has any effect on the taste but there is a video you can watch with a couple folks saying its ok.  This was the dream of an MIT graduate and is being sold in San Francisco as the starting market place. 

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At an Aug. 2009 post “Why Siemens Healthcare Fails” I described medical informatics talent management issues that were apparent in a job posting at Siemens Medical Solutions, a company that a decade ago seemed to value medical informatics expertise. (They in fact wanted to hire me then, an offer former employees tell me I was fortunate to have rejected due to a better offer from pharma).

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