Accident
In February 2003 I had an accident. I won’t bore you with the details — a freak fall that resulted in a concussion. It was quite an ordeal — but nothing compared to the associated paperwork. After arriving at the hospital via ambulance, the first encounter with the medical system was a person approaching my […]
Healthcare Paper Jungle
I received three pages of information about the procedure which the doctor ordered. The first and third (which very easily could have been one page) pages were about pre and post activities. The second page was clearly most important, at least to someone. I have reproduced it here including the exact punctuation and font styles. […]
Health Care Integration
I just read a piece in CIO Magazine entitled “Health-Care Integration May Be an Expensive Prescription“. The story talks about a bill proposed by Senator Edward Kennedy which would require that hospitals, doctors’ offices and insurance companies develop systems for sharing administrative and patient data. The story says that experts in health-care IT “are leery” […]
Third Age Media Video and Audio Clips
Third Age Media has produced a series of mini-documentary videos about senior citizens rediscovering interests and exploring new careers. These videos have been converted by IBM from a VHS video tape to Bamba and Bamba for Java streaming multimedia files. Bamba is an IBM technology for streaming audio and video to your PC over the […]
A healthy selection of top health sites
Health Sites Here is a great list of Health sites that appeared in USA Today in a special report. Adam (www.adam.com) AMA Health Insight(www.ama-assn.org/ama) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (www.cdc.gov) Drug Infonet (www.druginfonet.com) Hardin Meta Directory (www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/) HealthAnswers.com (healthanswers.com) Health Central (healthcentral.com) Healthfinder (healthfinder.gov) InteliHealth (intelihealth.com) Mayo Clinic Health Oasis (www.mayoclinic.com/) MedHelp International (www.medhelp.org) […]