January 2012
2 posts
cloud2health.com is preparing for iphones &... →
Top 10 Mobile Health Searches from Healthline
http://www.linkedin.com/news?viewArticle=&articleID=1015173680&gid=679187&type=member&item=87755621&articleURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mhimss.org%2Fnews%2Fhealthline-ranks-its-top-10-mobile-online-health-searches-2011&urlhash=SD2g&goback=.gde_679187_member_87755621
June 2011
2 posts
Google Health to Close: What does it say when one...
Who’s going to disrupt healthcare? We are.
http://thenextweb.com/google/2011/06/24/google-health-has-six-months-to-live-so-whos-going-to-disrupt-healthcare/
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Gaming Theory meets Healthcare
https://play.keas.com/try_it_now
February 2011
1 post
Some draft rules for cloud computing:
Reblogged from JP Rangaswami (http://confusedofcalcutta.com)
The cloud, like the banking system, like any truly global system, is about openness and standards and transparency and trust and guarantees.
Here they are, ten guiding principles, in draft form:
Transparency: Companies that provide enterprise cloud computing platforms should explain their information handling practices and...
December 2010
2 posts
Patient Centered Medical Home (NCQA):
Crossing the Quality Chasm: 10 Simple Rules for the 21st Century Health Care System
Crossing the Quality Chasm put forth “10 Simple Rules for the 21st Century Health Care System” to guide the redesign of the health care system. These rules underlie PPC and describe a system different from most health care today.
1. Care based on continuous healing relationships. Patients should...
imedcenter.com wins HBJ Healthcare Hero Award for... →
October 2010
4 posts
New medical office embraces technology
Vinti Singh, Staff Writer, New-Times
Published: 08:11 p.m., Saturday, September 25, 2010
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DANBURY — In the future, patients will carry all of their medical records on a USB drive or a smart phone.
In Danbury, the future is just days away.
imedcenter of Danbury, which will have its grand opening Oct. 2 at 46 Mill Plain Road, will be a paperless office with no records room.
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July 2010
1 post
Connecting Healthcare-an update
imedcenter.com’s lead-edge Health 3.o prototype in Danbury, CT continues to operationalize and see patients during the “soft opening” phase. We’re wired up and striving every day to be as paperless and “eco-green” while we try to solve data and work flow interchange issues, mostly between the different players of the healthcare system.
A good example is trying...
May 2010
3 posts
May 7, 2010 -- imedcenter.com sign goes up.
Working with the Harley of Computers...
Jason Scheurich LTD wiring up imedcenter.com
April 2010
9 posts
imedcenter.com: wired for Health 3.0
Healthcare Debate 3.0
imedcenter getting better.
Mike Santoianni of New England Electrical wiring...
Fixing Disconnected Healthcare-a little messy at...
How do you want your healthcare? imedcenter...
Thank you, Dave Martone, for helping to Build the...
imedcenter of Danbury "framing the future".
How to Build a Health 3.0 Center
March 2010
3 posts
Healthcare Connected Fast →
This connectivity will be important, particularly when sharing large data files, such as MRI examinations.
Healthcare off for the weekend?
A patient called me this Saturday morning sick with a recurrence of diverticulitis, an acute inflammation of his colon. Second episode.
He was originally evaluated, not to long ago, with a CT scan, and other pertinent lab work at a local hospital. If his condition worsens over the weekend, he may require a specialist (surgeon or gastroenterologist) at another facility to review the scan and data...
February 2010
3 posts
We're pleased to present our new logo:
Google announces ultra high-speed broadband...
Google plans to offer fiber direct to home of 1 gigabit (or gigabyte) per second. 1 gigabit is 1 000 000 000 bits.
Most of the time in today’s healthcare world, we still photocopy paper documents and mail them out to the different requesting clinicians. There are people out there trying very hard to change this painful inefficiency. There is a healthcare digital revolution...
January 2010
4 posts
What's the healthcare strategy?
As with the rest of the country, I’ve been trying to figure out where we are going with healthcare in this country. I was hoping to give my opinions on the final healthcare bill passed by the Senate, but that doesn’t seem to be happening anytime soon.
Many people in the healthcare world have been on the sidelines trying to figure out which way to go. What’s the strategy?
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The Inflection Point of Healthcare
Last evening, a well-educated, kind, 27 year old was pointing out some great features of Apple’s iTunes to me. This person is working on a Master’s Degree in a field unrelated to healthcare. We got to talking about Apple and how everything works together with such ease. The iphone/ipod/macbook, etc., connected.
Healthcare, for the most part in the US, I explained is not. This young...
Ouch, that hurts.
Here’s the average healthcare consumer going for a wellness check-up at the pediatrician in 2010.
The only problem- certain insurance companies no longer allow the pediatrician to perform a routine finger stick. This quick test checks to make sure that all is OK with the child’s blood level. Standard stuff. Maybe costs $5-$10.
Instead, parent and child must leave the office, drive...
2010
There is a balance to the number 2010.
Healthcare in our country needs to be brought into a state of “harmony or proportion” or “position of equipoise” (Merriam-Webster).
All of us in healthcare have alot of work to do. This year is going to see huge legislative and information technology changes. Get ready.
It’s gonna help alot of people. Let’s rock 2010!
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December 2009
9 posts
On the wrong side of history.
We all know that healthcare in the United States involves alot of money. But reading about the attempts by the pharmaceutical and health insurance industries (as well as Hospital Groups) to block the reform initiatives on a state level really sinks to a new low.
The hospital issue is a separate discussion.
Shouldn’t the pharmaceutical and insurance industries back off, even just a little...
Healthcare Bill to pass the Senate. 2074 pages...
Now things really get interesting. This bill is monumental.
AP Special Correspondent David Espo reports about the Senate Bill.
“At their core the bills passed by the House and pending in the Senate are similar. Each costs around $1 trillion over 10 years and is paid for by a combination of tax and fee increases and cuts in projected Medicare spending. Each sets up new insurance...
USB Glucometer? Who cares? You should.
Bayer Corporation has developed a USB Glucometer: http://www.bayercontourusb.us/home
Why is this big news? It means the healthcare world, and the pharmaceutical companies, are shifting towards the internet.
Malcolm Gladwell calls it the tipping point.
Mr. Mossberg reviewed this hiphop internet device today in the Wall Street Journal: ...
What Matters Now?
Sent by Jeff Seaver from Seth Godin’s Blog. Many Thanks!!
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/files/what-matters-now-2.pdf
Healthcare and Social Networking
Erin Gargan with jumpdigitalmedia.com kindly forwarded an article discussing healthcare social networking and its rapid evolution. (http://www.toprankblog.com/2009/10/social-media-in-healthcare-marketing-5-tips-for-approval/). Got me thinking— what’s this going to mean for the patient and the doctor?
Healthcare social networking has already started. And it’s growing fast....
IT Savvy Companies
Dr. Weill is Chairman of the MIT Sloan School of Managment’s Center for Information Systems Research. In this recent interview from the Wall Street Journal, he emphasizes and details the importance for “IT Savvy Companies” to standardize and innovate, and then link each project together.
Let’s start with standardizing our healthcare system.
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November 2009
6 posts
Medicine
We had an older patient come to our clinic for a flu shot.
He said there should be no such thing as “alternative” medicine. It had negative connotations.
Allopathic, Chiropractic, Naturopathic…all branches of the same tree.
He said there is only medicine, the art and the science. Done right, it works. I agree.
Understanding Flu Vaccine Distribution
The difficulty trying to obtain vaccine for patients (both seasonal and H1N1) points to an opportunity to improve our public healthcare system. Part of the confusion for patients, and providers, is that some vaccine is privately sourced (seasonal), some is distributed from the state and federal government (seasonal/H1N1).
Some people arriving at our clinics looking for their flu shots had already...
“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.”
– WINSTON CHURCHILL
October 2009
6 posts
Health Information Exchange (HIE) the next buzz...
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/ges-bid-to-connect-computerized-health-records/?emc=eta1