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Remember the Billionaire’s Summit in May 2009 – Oprah Did a Lot of Listening It Was Reported and She’s on Fire Today With Technology
The meeting was held almost a year ago, but stop and take a look at what Oprah has going on these days. Have you noticed the use of Skype regularly on her show. She could choose to use something more expensive and exotic for her shows, but by using something that everybody can use, like Skype, th…
The FDA Wants A Price Increase Too – User Fees for Medical Device Companies
Small businesses are still given a break for first time applications . Their fiscal year begins in October so if passed, the new rates could be in effect within months for the fiscal year 2011. By comparison what companies spend to get to this point to file may not look that substantial. Now w…
Insurer Refuses to Pay for Credit Monitoring Services Given to University of Utah Patients Who’s Records Were Stolen – The Expensive Credit Monitoring Service Provided Bill of $2.5 Million
Ok this is not a small physician’s office who incurred the breach, which was solved and records returned, but in the meantime protection had to be offered to the tune of $2.5 million dollars in fees. The University of Utah is now tied up in court trying to get the carrier of the courier company to…
Sleep Farting – There’s a Solution, The Better Marriage Blanket (Video)
Now what is it in our DNA that causes this (grin). This look like a real product but I’m not sure here, but who am I to say. Makes a great wedding gift (funny). Gee I wonder if this problem is discovered in some of those sleep apnea studies, never thought about this before (grin). It is char…
“Is This All There is” One Senator Announced His Retirement at Age 54 – A Culture of Nonparticipation (Opinion)
The article here addresses much of the political feelings and goings on in Congress, but for my little post here, I’m going use a simple analogy here, lack of participation and growing with the times. I think visuals speak much stronger than words and being a “geek” here I have found that I can sav…
Blue Cross Premium Increases To Be Resubmitted in California – Algorithms for “Desired Results”?
This is certainly a welcome sign here to have the reports substantiated to ensure that the grounds for any increases are indeed correct. I talk about this quite a bit and just because a great looking report with tons of statistics generated by mathematical algorithms look convincing and we assume t…
Dennis Quaid files Lawsuit Against Baxter for Not Recalling Heparin
A bit of history, this was addressed before and settlements were made but obviously the attention never went further to recall the heparin with the similar labels. One item I read here that I had not seen before was that the twins had staph, hospital acquired infections. Maybe I missed it but aga…
Medical tourism keeps adding more innovations as the concept moves along. Now through this company in California you can have your surgery done outside the US by a US doctor. Not too long ago I posted about surgeons who travel from facility to facility and it appears if signed up here they can tra…
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Press Conference Today – California Supports Healthcare Reform
I happened to watch this today live and one of the best things I have heard in a while was said, “I’m not a party servant, I’m a public servant”. I am guessing this comment relates to the fact that he’s not following what the rest of the GOP seems to be doing relative to reform. I actually like…
Kaiser Permanente Testing 2 IPads at the Garfield Healthcare Innovation Center
This is an update from an article that ran in the SF Gate not too long ago relative to what Kaiser Permanente was going to do with the potential of bringing in some new hardware – the Ipads. As you can read below they have 2 of them and it is work in progress. If you are not familiar with the “Gar…
First GINA Violation Appears To Be In the Works – She Has BRCA2 Gene And Was Released From Her Job
There’s still some additional information needed here so we can learn more about this case. It comes back around to “breast cancer” and a woman losing her job as they found out she tested positive for the BRCA2 gene. Now it states “she told them” of the results so I think that’s the part we need t…
Donald Trump Talks About Financial Reform, Arizona and A Few Other Topics – Larry King
With both healthcare reform and financial reform on everyone’s mind, Larry King talks to “The Donald” to get his views and some discussion about Arizona. He sees China as a threat to our financial security. He says Goldman was just part of the problem and they are “one of many” in the ointment. H…
Provenge from Dendreon Gets FDA Approval and Prostvac Gets Fast Track from FDA – Prostate Cancer
There’s a lot prostate cancer news today from the FDA. Provenge from Dendreon is a process to where blood is taken, send to Dendreon and injected back to the patient, using their own immune system to battle and extend life. In a prior post I went into detail about the process and how it works. D…
Johnson and Johnson fined $81 Million over Topamax Promotional Sales –Off Label Marketing
Recently in the news through another division, Johnson and Johnson won a large court case so perhaps some of the awarded money in the “stent wars” could be going to pay fines? Johnson and Johnson Revenue Increased – Helped Along with “Stent War” Settlements Also, the company has faced additional c…
Security Breach in Orange County – St. Jude Heritage Healthcare Has 22 Computers Stolen And 22,000 Members Notified
The encryption process came a little too late here, was in progress but not completed. Five of the stolen computers contained records that were password protected but not encrypted. Here’s the link to the insurance companies they represent and work with. Just for the mention here while on the to…
Gordon Brown’s “Nightmare on Elm Street” Affair – United Kingdom
This is a little off topic but over the years we have seen the exact same thing here when it comes to politics and I think politicians everywhere are having issues with some of the new technology that captures video and sound, you think? This one was bad, “she’s an old bigoted woman”…whew…. Don’t …
Some States are Opting Out of “High-Risk” Pools for Health Insurance – Nevada for One
In view of the new healthcare reform, we are seeing some resistance from some states and even seeing states enacting some strange and different laws, again relating to healthcare reform. An example below shows that 2 states have jumped in to create laws that will protect citizens from being “chipp…
