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Qualcomm Case Study: Medical Office of the Twenty First Century

MOXXI wanted to improve the safety of patients by helping to decrease the number of adverse drug interactions by minimizing transcription errors and providing alerts and reminders about prescription drug interactions and drug-disease interactions. MOXXI provided physicians with a "smart" prescription pad in the form of an HP iPAQ equipped...

Tags: Microsoft Office, Interaction, Qualcomm Inc., Prescription, PDAs, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Handhelds, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources

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CVS: Committed to Being Easiest Pharmacy Retailer With Lexmark Printing Solution

Based in Woonsocket, R.I., CVS has 5,379 locations in 36 states and fills more than one million prescriptions every day. Despite growth projections, CVS had to tackle several challenges including pharmacist retention and privacy legislation. CVS wanted to improve customer services and pharmacy processes, including reducing the time they took...

Tags: CVS Corp., Printing, Lexmark International Inc., Prescription, Printers, Retail, Document Management, Hardware, Peripherals, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting

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Leveraging the Internet to provide patient care

Dr. Howard Stark moved his private practice from his original base in Washington to the Internet. Answering 14,000 e-mails since his online practice began two years ago, he is less a harried doctor and says he feels more like a small town family doctor. Dr. Stark's...

Tags: Patient, Internet, Dr., Prescription, Patient Security, E-mail, Online Communications, Tricia Liebert

Blog posts 2008-01-29

Differentiation and Acupuncture Treatment (zip)

Very easy to study differentiation of TCM and acupuncture treatment. Writer combines rich clinical experiences, edit this book with form of outline. Book has 42 charts, 108 kinds of diseases, 336 acupuncture prescriptions, and 92 earpoint prescriptions.

Tags: Treatment, Prescription

Software downloads 2007-01-03

Doctors' digital duty

Electronic Records & ITThere is a big IT component to having Electronic Medical Records EMR, that is the network to support the application being used. If EMR are needed in a life or death situation the network must be available. What availability is required… 5 nines (99.999%)? ...

Tags: electronic medical records, electronic health record, Electronic Medical Record, prescription, cvm jr, it management

Discussion threads 2006-09-13

RxPro (exe)

Anyone who's ever had to take medication, whether just for a couple of weeks or on an ongoing basis, knows how difficult it can be to keep track of your prescriptions. The more medicine you take, the more difficult it can be. It's an alternative to obtaining this valuable information....

Tags: Prescription

Software downloads 2004-12-28

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Tilt and Wrap Calculator (zip)

Calculates compensated prescription of a spherocyllindrical lens that has been tilted on either x or y axis. Also compensates for vertex distance and induced prism caused by tilts. This software is made for opticians to design a prescription lens in high wrap frames.

Tags: Lens, Tilt, Tools & Techniques, Management

Software downloads 2006-09-22

Diet Pills And Weight Loss (exe)

Diet pills are very tempting things if you want to lose weight, especially if you have tried several conventional weight loss diets without success. Diet pills are divided into two types prescription-only diet pills and over-the-counter otc diet pills. Prescription Diet Pills. These pills are diet drugs. These pills are...

Tags: Pill, Federal Government, Food & Beverage, Advertising & Promotion, Government, Manufacturing, Marketing

Software downloads 2007-07-30

BEA and HP Create Unified Prescription System Spanning Nine Million Patients for Apoteket

Electronic prescriptions used to be limited to the Northern region of Sweden and Apoteket's goal was to achieve more common usage throughout the country. To achieve this, the Swedish state-owned organization with exclusive right to provide prescription drugs, needed to deploy a Service-Oriented Architecture SOA. Apoteket already had an installed...

Tags: BEA Systems Inc., Patient, Hewlett-Packard Co., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Middleware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software

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Is there an e-doctor in the house?

I don't pretend to be a doctor (and I don't play one on TV), so when I receive a prescription for some sort of medication, I don't even try to figure out what the handwriting says on the piece of paper that I hand to the pharmacist. Do pharmacists always know...

Tags: Pharmacist, Medication Error, E-mail, Corporate Communications, Online Communications, Marketing, Sonja Thompson

Blog posts 2007-01-25

QUALCOMM Case Study: CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield is the primary managed care provider in the mid-Atlantic area with nearly 3.2 million members, of which 1.2 million have prescription benefits. CareFirst wanted to extend the effectiveness of its DrFirst e-prescribing tool to improve patient safety and reduce prescription-related costs. CareFirst has enrolled 500 physicians into...

Tags: Blue Cross Blue Shield, Patient, Palm Treo, Qualcomm Inc., CareFirst, Productivity, PDAs, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

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Wyeth Bioinformatics' Research Transformed Using HP and Red Hat Solution

Wyeth is a global leader in prescription pharmaceutical non-prescription consumer healthcare products and pharmaceuticals for animal health. Wyeth needed to identify a stable, scalable, and flexible architecture to facilitate innovation and meet the computational needs of scientific research, increase performance and productivity, and decrease operating costs. Wyeth embarked on a...

Tags: Wyeth, Hewlett-Packard Co., Red Hat Inc., Bioinformatics, Wyeth Bioinformatics, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Hardware

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Qualcomm Case Study: Florida Medicaid Pharmacy Services

The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, Florida Medicaid Pharmacy Services, serves 1.6 million patients statewide, supporting 36 million transactions per year. Florida Medicaid Pharmacy Services wanted to streamline the prescription process by providing accurate, concise and up-to-date records of a patient's medication history to physicians, at the time the...

Tags: Patient, Physician, Qualcomm Inc., Pocket PC, Handhelds, Hardware

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Verona Hospital Setting New Standards in Patient Care With Intel Centrino Mobile Technology and Accenture Wi-Force HS Solution

With ever increasing numbers of new pharmaceutical therapies available and spiralling drug prescription costs, it was critical for Azienda Ospedaliera di Verona Verona Hospital to provide physicians and nurses with a high-performance information system to help more cost-effectively treat over 2,000 patients daily. Verona Hospital recognised the benefit in migrating...

Tags: Patient, Hospital, Mobile, Intel Centrino, Accenture Ltd., Standards, Intel Corp.

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Mandell Moore Bitoric Calculator (zip)

This program will help in determining the basic fit for rigid gas permeable contact lens, given the patients K readings and prescription. Great educational tool. Used by colleges and institutions as an educational tool.

Tags: Tool, Productivity

Software downloads 2006-09-22

SoftaMedCab (exe)

Free electronic medical record, drug and disease library, standard letter and prescription, curves and statistic, transfer encrypted data between physicians, free website, user-friendly, very simple interface. Version 1.0x may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.

Tags: E-health, Web Site Development, Healthcare, Internet

Software downloads 2006-05-26

Is this really the best we can do?

I signed myelderly father (83) up for one of the 43 separate Medicare Prescription drugplans available in the Louisville area. That's right 43 --- how the heck is an83-year old man, a man who cannot even switch between the TV and the VCR so hecan watch Laurel & Hardy movies,...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Insurance, Medicare, beneficiary

Blog posts 2006-05-15

Phentermine Tolerance Report (exe)

Are you taking Phentermine, but not losing as much weight as you hoped? You could be one of many people who have a tolerance to Phentermine, rendering it less effective in your weight loss battle. The Phentermine tolerance report addresses simple changes you can make to help get the most...

Tags: Tolerance

Software downloads 2005-07-13

Pharmacy Quiz 2006 (zip)

Pharmacy Quiz 2006 is an easy, efficient, and user-friendly program for learning hundreds of drugs. Features include quizzes for drug brands, generics, drug classes, treatments, drug stems, and prescription abbreviations. It is a very helpful program for pharmacy technicians, pharmacists, nurses, CNAs, LPNs, EMTs, medics, doctors, medical professionals, and anyone...

Tags: Pharmacy Quiz 2006, Branding, Marketing

Software downloads 2006-10-03

Freedom of Choice

Why is it when leftists American Liberals talk about "freedom of choice" they are only referring to their freedoms? They will scream from the roof tops that they must have the right to kill the unborn but one should not be able to choose what they will sell in their...

Tags: ProtiusX, morning after, plan b, freedom of choice, off-topic, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., pharmacy, stock

Discussion threads 2006-08-30