Featured Blog Posts – July 2010 Archive (7)

Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) - White Paper

About the White Paper: For those who do not know what is Vendor Neutral Archive or VNA, the term is used by many vendors of PACS software to identify the core of their product--the component

that is used to reliably manage, store, retrieve, and query medical

images and related information. Unfortunately, there is no "official"

definition of the functionality of a VNA. As such, VNA offerings vary

from vendor to vendor. The result is confusion among users…

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Added by Yusuf Hakim on July 27, 2010 at 8:03am — 2 Comments

The Healthy Kids Mobile Apps Challenge

Colleagues,

Let's try something new. Mobile Apps focused on health, wellness and medical care are proliferating rapidly. Innovation contests with money awards are also rapidly growing as a way to encourage new ideas, technologies and strategies...

... MedTech-IQ member,… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on July 25, 2010 at 9:30am — 1 Comment

Health 2.0 Real Time Patient-Driven Data Challenge with Practice Fusion

HealthSaaS is participating in the Health 2.0 Challenge and is blogging about the experience.…

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Added by frankille on July 15, 2010 at 9:30am — No Comments

Metal Toxicity and Disease with Dr. Buttar - Special Bonus Guest

Conversations with the Masters of Healing begins Tuesday and we have a special bonus guest - Dr. Rashid Buttar!

Here’s a little background information on Dr. Rashid Buttar:

Rashid A. Buttar, DO, FAAPM, FACAM, FAAIM, trained in General Surgery and Emergency Medicine and then served as Brigade Surgeon for 2nd Infantry Division, Republic of South Korea and later, as the… Continue

Added by Cynthia Shelby-Lane, MD on July 15, 2010 at 8:00am — No Comments

Guest Blog: The David Petraeus of Health ... By Dana Blackenhorn

Colleagues,

As I have said in the past, Dana Blackenhorn is thoughful and thought provoking ... Let me see what you think of this blog on the recent recess appointment of David Berwick to become the new Administrator of CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services). Excerpts below ....

ENJOY!

CC

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Who wants to spend half what they do now, on something… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on July 11, 2010 at 12:00pm — 1 Comment

Time to Rethink How We Pay for Medical Care and Healthcare

Today we mostly have prepaid medical care insurance with some co-pays and deductibles – both with commercial insurance and with Medicare. In other words, our insurance covers essentially everything from basic and routine care to the catastrophic. And the insurance pays out based on units of care – a visit, a test, a procedure, a hospitalization, a prescription. This creates a system in which providers (physicians, hospitals, drug and device companies, others) get paid for a unit of activity –… Continue

Added by Stephen C Schimpff on July 10, 2010 at 5:22pm — 3 Comments