tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70774756970532412852011-11-27T17:00:46.881-08:00A Blog on Medical Informatics, Health Informatics, Biomedical Informatics, Bioinformatics and Public Health Informatics by Digitaldoc, MDDigitaldoc, MDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06490732171275104383noreply@blogger.comBlogger61100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077475697053241285.post-59653285367087614382008-03-10T18:03:00.000-07:002008-03-10T23:49:27.647-07:00

The Geek factor entrapped me right from the nostalgic days of the MS-DOS, QBASIC and 386 Microprocessors and it's only natural for me to love it when Geekdom come to medicine :-)Recently checked out a Web 2.0 pain-mapping application developed by Reliefinsite.com™ which is a "patented, secure, HIPAA-compliant web-based platform that provides visually-oriented pain assessment and tracking". A

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I caught the buzz this month about Mobile Diabetic launching LogBookFx, a free software application for cell phones for diabetics to track blood sugar levels.Mine was a lazy Sunday anyways, hence decided to check it out myself. Since there are more cell phone users than there are PC users, hypothetically there should be more diabetics with cell phone access than a computer access, implying

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Well... not for everyone in America yet, but we surely have a big start with Aetna and Cigna agreeing to compensate physicians for 'visiting' their patients online.While initial efforts in Telemedicine in US fumbled due to lack of rural connectivity and funds, This had to happen someday since the Internet is now ubiquitous & cheap, patients are increasingly connected and the physicians

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A Hybrid Electronic Medical Record is a combination of Electronic and traditional Paper Medical Records.The paper part of the Hybrid EMR itself can be either tangible paper or scanned images of paper records, thereby giving us two types of Hybrid EMRs:1. EMR + True Paper Records2. EMR + Digitized Paper Records (i.e. Digitally Scanned images of Paper records generated by Document Imaging Systems)

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Electronic prescriptions have the following advantages to offer over traditional handwritten ones:1. They remove the perils of illegible handwriting2. Trap errors such as drug-drug interactions by automatically triggering alerts3. Give physicians ready access to medication histories4. They can provide Pre-stored prescription templates by disease type, which can potentially save the physician

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e-Prescribing or Electronic Prescribing implies that physicians prescribe medications and devices using software applications instead of writing them by hand. According to this article, a bill is on the way that seeks to make e-prescribing mandatory by 2011 for physicians treating Medicare and Medicaid patients. Physicians will receive a bonus for using e-Prescriptions, and will be penalized

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