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Mapping ICD Codes to SNOMED A Daunting Project – Men Who Smoked While Pregnant

March 19, 2010

All medical offices and hospitals are familiar with the current ICD 9 Codes used for diagnosing patient conditions and illnesses and hopefully some standards for mapping the coding over to SNOMED will improve and come along, it is work in…

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Esteem Implanted Hearing Aid From Envoy Gets Approval from the FDA – 1st Device of It’s Kind

March 19, 2010

This is very nice, no more having the “hearing aide” visible and it is implemented behind the ear.  The clinical trial was conducted with 61 individuals, which by clinical trials numbers is small, but the results seem to speak for…

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Stem Cell Research in the US – Focus on UCI Irvine With First FDA Approved Treatment for Spinal Cord Damage

March 17, 2010

The video speaks of where stem cell research is currently in the US and revisits the big breakthrough from a couple years ago when skin cells could be used instead of the actual embryo for research.  That discovery rapidly set…

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Health Clouds Forming in California – State HIE (Health Information Exchange) ONC Grant

March 17, 2010

Hard hat area:  The state project is aligned with the federal NHIN standards.  Last month 15 organizations received grants to begin electronically sending Social Security disability claims via the National Health Information Network.  As I understand the California infrastructure would…

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Microsoft and New York City Launch Virtual Senior Center - Using Windows 7 and Touch Screen Computers to Connect Homebound Seniors to the Outside World

March 17, 2010

This is just an overall “nice” story.  I know as I have a mother who is a senior and the computer is a big connection for her to the outside world.  She doesn’t have Windows 7 and a touchscreen, but…

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Pfizer adopts Microsoft OneNote for Web Collaboration With SharePoint

March 16, 2010

This makes perfect sense since tablet pcs are already in use at Pfizer.  I’m a big One Note fan myself and the article here states that users are basically jumping in on their own.  At Microsoft OneNote has almost passed…

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Clinic in the Bronx Uses Iris (Eye) Identification Scanning for Patient Records – Always Picks the Right Chart

March 15, 2010

If you didn’t know better, you might guess there’s something else going on in the picture here.  This system is more expensive than one that use finger tip scanning, but they were luck with a grant and were able to…

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Boston Scientific Suspending Sales of Implanted Heart Defibrillators – 2 Production Changes Not Cleared by the FDA

March 15, 2010

Here’s more bad news for the company with an expensive recall.  In addition to “stent wars” the company also participates in this highly competitive area.  Just last year the company received approval for a new stent, so I guess when…

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Medical Device Analysis Outsourcing to Third Parties Under Review at the FDA – Are Some Potentially Lethal Algorithms Being Missed In the Process

March 15, 2010

Do you want safety or a lane to get a product to market rapidly?  This is what the FDA is looking at.  Not too long ago it was in the news that the NIH and others were looking to improve…

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Paper Medical Records Found Dumped in Fast Food Trash Container – Add Shredders To “Meaningful Use” Please!

March 15, 2010

The old paper records keep showing up in new places, this time in the trash at a fast food building.  I said this a while back and I think it still holds true, we some public shredders please! 

Public Shredders…

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