Since January, Berci Meskó over at Scienceroll has been writing about how Web 2.0 is changing medicine. He’s written a number of interesting articles, including Medical wikis: the future of medicine? and Medical Web 2.0 Sites.
In Web 3.0 and medicine, Berci writes about WikiProteins, a new site that plans to use Web 3.0 technologies to incorporate real time community annotation into a semantic framework. The article Meet the uber-wiki is a great review of the up-and-coming resource.
According to Nova Spivack, founder of Radar Networks, a San Francisco based startup that is developing a new web-based online service that will bring the power of the Intelligent Web to consumers, Web 3.0 is closer than you think [1]. His company plans to launch their first product later this year.
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Recently, an undercover pharmacy investigation conducted by 20/20 and reported on by Chief Investigative Correspondent Brian Ross evaluated prescription dispensing at some of the best known U.S. chain drug stores.
The results are surprising and the suggestions at the end of this article really could save your life or that of someone you love.
Prescription error
With the exception of a few states, pharmacies in the U.S. are not required to report errors that involve serious injury or death. There are no federal requirements, so no one knows just how many errors occur [1]. The industry says that errors represent only a small percentage of the billions of prescriptions filled every year.
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The federal government has made financial promises over the next 75 years at an estimated value of $50 trillion dollars. According to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), medicare obligations alone represent almost $39 trillion of that amount and have increased 197% since 2000 (1).
You read that right - future Social Security benefits and future Medicare benefits increased 197% from 2000 to 2006.
And - here’s the clincher - in the absence of extensive reform to both the Medicare program and the nation’s healthcare system, the government won’t have the money to meet those financial promises.
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