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In: Health Concerns
30 Jun 2010My friend and Microsoft colleague, medical search guru Dr. Alain Rappaport, called me the other day. He wanted to tell me about some of the cool new health information updates that have been made to Bing. As you know, Bing is much more than…(read more)
In: Health Care Law
28 Jun 2010On June 15, 2010, the West Virginia Health Care Authority filed a Notice of a Comment Period on a Proposed Rule with the West Virginia Secretary of State amending West Virginia CSR 65-7, Certificate of Need Rule.
According to the Summary and Statement of Circumstances filed with the Proposed Rule the “amendment clarifies the definition of [...]
In: Health Care Law
25 Jun 2010Ryan Brown, a health care attorney at Flaherty Sensabaugh Bonasso PLLC who specializes in medical malpractice defense, health care regulatory work and health care related employment issues wrote this summary of the West Virginia Patient Safety Act.
In: Health Concerns
23 Jun 2010When I was in medical school in Toledo, Ohio, my wife worked in a hospital medical laboratory. Many of her coworkers were the spouses of well paid, union auto workers. My wife used to tell me that her coworkers and their husbands would boast…(read more)
In: Health Concerns
23 Jun 2010Or perhaps I should say, HealthVault has come to the British. I am extremely pleased to announce that as of today, HealthVault is now available in the UK. It was just a couple of weeks ago that I announced the availability of HealthVault …(read more)
Last Friday the Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) issued a final rule providing the details on how organizations can be authorized by ONC to test and certify EHR technology. ONC discusses the details the Temporary Certification Program.
Certification is important because the Medicare and Medicaid EHR incentives under HITECH require the use [...]
In: Health Concerns
16 Jun 2010Last September I posted a piece titled Whats ahead for clinical computing . In October I shared some of my thoughts on how Windows 7 and future operating systems would change the ways clinicians work with computers. More recently, I discussed…(read more)
In: Health Concerns
16 Jun 2010Message from Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer: Starting today, Microsoft Office 2010 is available in 240 countries, 10 languages, and over 35,000 retail stores worldwide. In the course of the next year it will be available in 94 languages and will ship…(read more)
In: Health Care Law
15 Jun 2010Wow! Thanks to the Blogger Team for highlighting my Health Care Law Blog as a Blogs of Note on Blogger Buzz, the official buzz from Blogger at Google, for Monday, June 14, 2010. More on the Historie of Blogs of Note.
Welcome to all stopping by the Health Care Law Blog for the first time. If [...]
In: Health Concerns
14 Jun 2010Tomorrow I have a brief meeting with some executives from AARP . The purpose of the meeting is to review some of the cool things Microsoft is doing in health around the world. In preparing for the meeting I spent a bit of time on the AARP web site…(read more)
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