The Readmore 2014

Does it cost more (or less) to live in West Virginia? Numerous times this question has either come up or been posed to me. The Charleston Daily Mail had a blurb today on a recent report issued by the WVU College of Business & Economics examining cost of living.The report looks at 4 cities in West Virginia: Charleston, Morgantown, Martinsburg and...

I have to agree with ESPN.com, "IF IT'S PANDEMONIUM YOU WANT . . . No. 3 USC lost. No. 5 Texas struggled. No. 7 Auburn struggled. This may have been the greatest Saturday in West Virginia history."USC's loss sets up a great Thursday night game between the Mountaineers and the Cardinals....

The Charleston Area Bloggers (CAB) are planning to meet at Capitol Roasters on November 11 around 7am to 9am. Come early, late or anytime in between. Wi-fi is available.If you can't make it the group is setting aside Wednesday, December 6 @ 7am for the December get-together. Mark your calendar and plan to attend.Rick Lee and Oncee have posted about...

CCHIT is the first group to be designated by HHS as a RCB. How's that for health care acronyms!The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technlogy's (CCHIT) designation as as a Recognized Certification Body (RCB) will allow for those marketing health IT products to move forward for approval as a certified interoperable product. The article...

What current U.S. Supreme Court Justice has roots in West Virginia? Answer. Tip to SW Virginia Law Blog.Tags: SCOTUS, law, supreme court, WV, West Virgin...

The Charleston Daily Mail reports today that Vonage has finally entered the West Virginia market. I've been waiting for Vongage to come to West Virginia after having used the service in North Carolina at my brother in law's house. Based on my experience it's a great service.Those of you who aren't famililar with Vonage and voice over internet service...

The first Healthcare Blogging Summit will be held on December 11, 2006, at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC, co-located at Consumer Health World.I've been invited by Dmitriy Kruglyak, the organizer of the summit to participate as a panel member of the session on Healthcare Blogging - Facts & Issues. The panel members include:Dmitriy Kruglyak...

Healtcare IT News reports that Robert Kolodner, Interim National Coordinator for Health Information Technology will only be in the position thru January 2007 and will then return to his position at the VA.To maintain momentum the health care industry need a charismatic national leader on health information technology to help guide and coordinate a...

A lesson on losing hospital patient data.260,000 patient records were accidentally left in a new computer bag by a medical billing contractor who had copied the records onto CDs to work from home. The employee had decided the new recently purchased computer bag was too small and exchanged it at the store leaving the CDs inside. The person who later...

The Red Tape Chronicles highlights HIPAA (un)enforcement in Health Care Privacy Law: All Bark, No Bite?The post provides an update on the number of HIPAA complaints filed with OCR (22,664 since 2004) and the fact that no fines have been levied for violating the HIPAA Privacy Rule. The article also cites that 332 criminal cases have been referred...

Ohhhhh . . . Tuesday Morning . . . feels like a hangover. I'm finally coming down from the caffeine buzz of last weeks Grand Rounds hosted by Kim at Emergiblog. I'm in withdraw after a week of working on the incredible submissions for this week's edition of the best from the medical...

Ohhhhh . . . Tuesday Morning . . . feels like a hangover. I'm finally coming down from the caffeine buzz of last weeks Grand Rounds hosted by Kim at Emergiblog. I'm in withdraw after a week of working on the incredible submissions for this week's edition of the best from the medical...

The Unbounded Medicine byline reads, "Medicine as it must be: unlimited." A great perspective for those working in today's health care industry. Unbounded Medicine does a great job hosting this week's edition of Grand Rounds, the carnival of medical blogospere.Next up, Kim at Emergiblog will be hosting the October 17th edition of Grand Rounds. After...

Over the last year I've toyed with the concept of a feature guest post or podcast recounting stories of West Virginia medicine reflected through the eyes of my dad, an 82 year old West Virgnia doctor. With help from my dad who has a knack for story telling the "West Virginia Doctor" Series is being born.What prompted me to get this feature post started?...

The Government Accounting Office (GAO) recently issued a privacy report on Domestic and Offshore Outsourcing of Personal Information in Medicare, Medicaid and TRICARE.Following is the summary of the Report findings.Federal contractors and state Medicaid agencies widely reported domestic outsourcing of services involving the use of personal health...

Via a post from The Health Care Blog, I was alerted to a second hospital CEO blogger. Paul Levy is the Pres/CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and is blogging at Running A Hospital.To my knowledge this is only the second hospital CEO blogger. Nick Jacobs, the CEO at Windber Medical Center, who blogs at Nick's Blog and periodically...