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George Church is professor of genetics at Harvard medical school and also heads the Lipper Center for Computational Genetics MIT Harvard Department of Energy Genomes to Life Center and the National Institutes of Health NIH Center for Excellence in Genomic Science Church s Harvard lab is a member of the genome sequencing technology development project of the NIH National Human Genome Research Institute He s also the inspiration behind a number of companies including Genome Therapeutics since 1989 the sequencing part of which merged with Agencourt Biosciences in 2003 arguably the largest current generation gene sequencing company recently acquired by Beckman Coulter for more than $100 million depending on earn outs and a 2005 spin off called Agencourt Personal Genomics He has also contributed ideas to Codon Devices a synthetic biology company that constructs large scale integrated genetic circuits for anything from pharmaceutical manufacturing to biosensors and smart materials Codon has funding from Kleiner Perkins including Vinod Khosla personally as well as Flagship and Alloy Most recently Church led Harvard s research project to design a faster and therefore cheaper way to sequence genomes reported August 4 in the journal Science This followed by four days an announcement by company 454 Life Sciences based in Branford CT of a similar achievement Three magnitudes down two more to go Both groups have automated and miniaturized the process which makes it much cheaper faster and more accurate The very first human genome sequence took 13 years and cost $2 7 billion though the second was much quicker The current cost if someone wanted it would be about $20 million or the price of Dennis Tito s trip into space Church s and 454 s separate but similar approaches drop the cost to about $2 million Their ultimate goal is about $1000 though Church points out that even $20 000 would be compatible with our current medical system not for everyone but ak
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Is the Human Heart Just a Number
Part of the new health care system to come will be to computerize all health care records The quot V Chip quot is a microChip which would be embedded in the arm of patients Health care professionals would then scan the arm and retrieve an ID number allowing them to access personal information 515 hospitals have agreed to take part in the <a href= http www infowars com obama health plan poses danger to american freedoms >VeriChip< a> system 100 hospitals are already trained and set up to use the VeriChip so far This is just the first step Combined with the National ID complete with rfid chips Americans will be tracked and controlled In Palm Beach Florida 200 Alzheimer s patients were already microchipped by the VeriChip company for free The state of Oklahoma is debating a bill to microchip prisoners of violent crimes to keep track of them after release Chipping people is wrong At the moment it is a choice to be chipped before too long it will be mandatory This is a violation of privacy as well as a threat to American freedom Do your research and say no to the VeriChip
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J D Kleinke disappointed but still hopeful idealist on health care As J D Kleinke points out Over the past few decades the steady expansion of the health insurance enterprise to pay for almost all our routine care has created de facto buyers clubs large bureaucratic breathtakingly inefficient and often hostile to their members buyers clubs that take 20 percent off the top in transaction and other administrative costs without adding much in the way of real value Kleinke believes it would make more sense to pay for routine care in a way that encourages direct consumer involvement and price performance discrimination while catastrophic care is more appropriately a matter for insurance Among other things it often involves situations where individuals simply can t be well informed empowered buyers For almost everyone but the seriously ill though the insurers are not the right ones to be in charge As Kleinke says Most people will take paternalism from their doctors but they won t take it from an insurance company The challenge is that some people want to control their own health care and others don t But a critical mass of empowered individuals is likely to change the system for everyone over the long run So how do those individuals get empowered Right now they are underinformed and have little market clout But employers can help and have an incentive to do so Kleinke s betting on that among other developments at Omnimedix Institute the non profit organization he founded in 2004 to research test and disseminate ways for consumers to manage their own medical data with a focus on personal health records PHRs as a key mechanism Omnimedix is working with a group of large employers led by Intel Corporation to develop and roll out a free portable public utility type PHR designed to break up what he calls the classic health care IT logjam There are hundreds of commercial PHR vendors Kleinke says all hamstrung by the absence of a viable business
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When Microsoft launched its much ballyhooed HealthVault medical records system for individuals see my review here it made such a fetish of security protections that it virtually rendered
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The first phase of a web based regional electronic health record EHR system is on schedule to launch by February 2004 says Donna Strating Chief Information Officer for Capital Health A rigorous evaluation process which involved 39 physicians and clinicians from Capital Health and Calgary Health regions was concluded in January with the announcement of the vendor selected
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Use of netCARE continues to grow Jul 1 2005 In its first year netCARE users viewed more than one million screens of patient information It was like any other Friday for Ruth Cossever a nurse practitioner at Boyle McCauley Health Centre But February 18 would become a memorable day for Ruth and Capital Health Each week
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In a rather ambitious move President George W Bush has launched an initiative to ensure all Americans have access to their personal electronic health records within 10 years Medicine ought to be using modern technologies in order to better share information in order to reduce medical errors and in order to reduce cost to our health care system by billions
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netCARE EHR Early Feedback says Electronic Health Record on Right Track Oct 1 2003 The problem with asking people to try a superior product is having to take it away from them when the trial is over That was the kind of good problem Capital Health faced after 25 clinicians
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This screen shows that the document has been successfully created uploaded or posted into the LAXOR ® Personal Health Record Jump To Slide Number
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All your LAXOR ® Personal Health Record account information can be accessed and modified as needed from this one place Jump To Slide Number 1
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different ways to view it You can also send the document to another person within your LAXOR ® Personal Health Record by clicking Add to File Outbox Jump To Slide Number 1
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your LAXOR ® Personal Health Record The little folder icons also show the different types of documents and how many documents are in each document type folder Jump To Slide Number 1
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specialists and advisors and unfortunately there is no system in place to allow easy communication of an individual s medical information among these providers It thus becomes necessary for the individual to be aware of their own conditions and medications so they can inform their health care provider at the time of
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