Tag Archives: information

Google Health, a good start.

2008.05.19 – 5:57 pm PDT

I read today first on LinuxMedNews that Google Health has launched.

Upon accepting the additional Google Health agreements for my Google Account, I was shown a list of eight partners where I could link up to for importing data. Nice for now, I want MORE.  I easily linked my Walgreens prescription info thereby adding that part of my medical history.  Which it still hasn’t done quite yet as of writing this.  I highly doubt State Fund Insurance Compensation ([tag]SCIF[/tag]) will ever become a partner, if they do I can only forsee good coming of it.  I am also populating some other fields too as I write.

I am very impressed with the quality of the interface for adding basic health information, like height, weight, blood type along with Conditions, Medications, Allergies, Test Results, and Immunizations.  It is quite clean and is a perfect example of what I’ve come to expect from Google.

Now for the fault.  There is no way for a person to their own documents, records and images to the system.  Not too sure how much use I will really get out of the Google Health platform until that roadblock has past.  But even then it’s a good start with what information it can collect.  I’d like to see something where a person could scan their document and then batch upload the images to Google for Optical Character Recognition or other processing.

TechCrunch has a more thorough image filled post if you’re interested.

Seeing that they want to host all of my data, it would be nice if I could some how link my Google Calendar which has all of my thousands of appointments and such, so that I can be easily reimbursed for mileage somehow.  Maybe with the Google AppEngine?  /me wishes he could sit down, then functionally design and build such a thing.

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DTV transition coupon info.

2007.03.29 – 8:33 pm PDT

I was trying to find some information about the DTV transition coupons. Here’s what I found in a govt pdf information sheet. At the beginning of 2008 you will have the opportunity to request a coupon. After February 17, 2009 you will need the converter box to watch over the air DTV. (Also if you want to learn more about the 700 MHz band aka. the reason we need these new boxes. Om wrote a very good article on it.) There is other stuff you could find interesting, but I doubt it. Here’s the meat;

Coupon requests

  • Households must request coupons from NTIA between January 1, 2008 and March 31, 2009.
  • Consumer coupon requests will be taken via a toll-free customer support center, a Web site, fax, and through the mail.
  • Upon request, a maximum of up to two coupons will be sent to households via the United States Postal Service and will expire three months after they are mailed.
  • Each coupon will be worth $40 towards the purchase of an eligible converter box from a certified consumer electronics retailer. Coupons have no cash value and may not be resold.
  • Coupons will be electronically trackable and uniquely numbered, similar to gift cards, so that transactions will be verified at the point of sale.

Coupon redemption

  • Once consumers begin receiving their coupon(s) in 2008, they will be able to use them toward the purchase of eligible converter boxes through certified retailers.
  • Only one coupon can be redeemed per converter box. It is unlawful for consumers to combine coupons toward the purchase of a single converter box.
  • It is unlawful for consumers to redeem coupons to purchase consumer electronics items other than eligible converter boxes.

[tags]DTV, transition, 2008, 2009, $40, coupons, vouchers, converter, box, consumers, information, reference, time line[/tags]

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about

2006.06.11 – 9:17 pm PDT

This is the about page for my blog. My blog contains many categories, and includes a tagging system for it’s articles, pages, and polls.  Maybe I will write more in here sometime.

[tags]site, about, page[/tags]

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2005.10.17 – 9:21 am PDT

Ms Tse,

First off, if your going to cite labor code at me, then you better put what code number code section, whatever it is you cite. I unlike you do _not_ have a gaggle of lawyers working for me to protect my rights as a person or corporation.

Secondly, on my several now previous visits to California, SCIF made complete arrangements, including my hotel stays, as you well know because you made them. So the same procedure was not in fact used for my arrangements this time as you falsely stated.

You never informed me that this time I would have to make the reservations for a room.

Oh and the Information and Assistant Officers don’t know why the people who work for SCIF are such two faced jerks. But it’s still clear to me that you just feel like making things difficult for me. By “forgetting” to inform me of pertinent details until the last minute.

mr friedman

Margaret S. Tse wrote:
> Mr. Friedman,
>
> Per the labor code, we are responsible for providing funds for hotel
> room which was issued on 10/5/05. The same procedure was used for your
> prior travel arrangements which was explained to you at the time.
>
> If you have any questions please contact Information and Assistant Officer.
>
> *Maggie Tse*
> Claims Adjuster
> State Compensation Insurance Fund
> Phone: (818) 550-5238
> Fax: (818) 291-7604
> E-mail: mstse@scif.com
>

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Drugs: Neurontin

2004.07.23 – 11:44 am PDT

Well, just did some research, and found something very interesting about Neurontin.

Taken from: http://www.citizen.org/ELETTER/ARTICLES/neurontin.htm

A March 14, 2002, New York Times article revealed that the manufacturer of the seizure medication gabapentin (NEURONTIN) illegally promoted the drug to prescribing physicians for at least 11 “off-label” (unapproved) medical conditions, using their own employees, euphemistically called “medical liaisons.” Many of the bases for the safety and effectiveness of gabapentin for these 11 unapproved uses appears to have been fabrications by the corporation. This included paying physicians to appear as the authors of medical journal articles on unapproved uses for gabapentin when the articles had actually been written by others working under the direction of the company’s marketing department.

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2. Pain Syndromes, Peripheral Neuropathy, and Diabetic Neuropathy. Parke-Davis medical liaisons were trained and instructed to report that “leaks” from clinical trials demonstrated that gabapentin was highly effective in the treatment of a number of pain syndromes and that a 90 percent response rate in the management of pain was being reported. No such evidence existed. Medical liaisons were trained to claim support for these findings as a result of inside information despite the fact that no such information existed. The only basis for these claims were anecdotal evidence of minimal, if any, scientific value. Many of the published case reports, according to the court papers, had been created and sponsored by Parke-Davis in articles that frequently hid the company’s involvement in the creation of the article. The company’s payment for the creation of these case reports was also concealed.

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Parke-Davis’ concocted uses for gabapentin turned the drug into a “blockbuster.” A blockbuster is the Wall Street description for any drug that sold $1 billion per year or more. In 2000, the company reported that gabapentin had earned $1.3 billion. As much as 78 percent of these sales were for uses without evidence that gabapentin was safe and effective. In 2001 a market research firm estimated that gabapentin sales totaled $1.7 billion.

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What You Can Do

If you or a family member are taking gabapentin for one of the 11 unapproved, often apparently concocted, uses listed above, you and the prescribing doctor should evaluate the need for gabapentin.

So the reason Neurontin was perscribed for me, pain, was a hoax. Atleast back in 2002. I wonder what has changed if anything. I knew I should have been more leary of this perscription.

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2004.07.02 – 6:35 pm PDT

OK, I think I’m now a blog-whore. Reason being, I have to organize my information better, and on to multiple blogs.

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