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Epocrates EHR Too Late For the Show and Looking to Sell Their Mobile Medical Records System
This is kind of too sad as I have used Epocrates for years on my cell phone and PDA before that to look up formularies. Even on this blog I put a courtesy search box for their web services to make it easy to look up a drug. The problem here is that they have way too much competition and the late st…
Judge Says No to Cardinal–Suspension Remains on Shipping Drugs from Florida Facility–Where Were The Algorithms/Analytics To Find This?
As you read on here and with the way we use business intelligence for everything and even abuse it today in some areas, here’s a case to where the CVS pharmacy would have stuck out like a sore thumb if the average store dispenses 69,000 a year and this store dispenses 1.8 million pills. I know any …
FDA Approves First 4 in 1 FluMist Vaccine For Ages 2 to 49
We get some extra vaccine power in this FluMist vaccine it appears so I guess might as well get all you can at once and you inhale it. Strains of two types of both strains A and B are included. BD WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials have approved the first vaccine that protects agains…
Feds Bust Doctor in Dallas, Texas Area for Medicare Fraud–No Yacht and No Escape from the US Now… Biggest MD Fraud Case in History
When you read through this he had it all pretty well planned out so this was not an “accidental” case of errors with medical billing by any means. Getting busted one and then going around to create another company to keep functioning is like really asking to be caught and there’s greed in fraud for…
United Healthcare Buys Two HMOs in Florida–More Cheap or Free Hearing Aids for Seniors Perhaps–Subsidiary Watch
Not too long ago the cheap and free hearing aides were in the news. These are distributed through yet another United Healthcare subsidiary, of which there are many, more than any other health insurer has. As you can read below the bonus was a free hearing aid for those in Miami Dade county who enr…
Gordon Gekko Comes Back to Help the FBI With A Public Service Announcement to Help Fight Financial Crime On Wall Street
This is a little off topic but interesting that Michael Douglas, who played the role, twice, was asked to do a public service video but I guess it gets attention as he played a pretty ruthless character and I watched both movies myself just as like movies. What’s interesting is when you read his co…
More Birth Control Pill Recalls–Patient Found This Error with Pills in Bubble Pack in Reverse Order–The “Shitty Deal” With No Bar Codes to Make Them Easier to Find…
I goes pay to ask questions and look around anymore as you never know what you might find and obviously this woman knew her pills enough to the fact that she was able to recognize that the wrong colors for the wrong weeks were in the wrong places. This time it’s generic pills on the hook. No bar b…
Blue Cross and United Healthcare Duking It Out In Nebraska Over State Health Insurance Contract–We Have More Subsidiaries My Cost Algorithms Are Better Than Yours?
Ok so the title got your attention but gee if you have followed news about insurers then you do know that United has tons of subsidiary companies and Blue Cross doesn’t even come close in number and as you have read too they are not all insurance companies. We have all different types to include he…
HHS Facebook Application Winners Announced for the Lifeline Challenge–But Are Any Privacy Policies/Protections Included?
This is just my personal opinion but I think these are nuts and could not for the life of me figure this contest out and the press release says nothing about privacy so again we know who mines data on the web and who sells data so that is my first question here in wondering why privacy was not menti…
The “Shit” Cancer Patients Say–Five Time Cancer Survivor and the Best Looking Amputee in Denver – Woody Roseland
This is quite the video and being he’s a five time survivor he knows the chemo routine and you have have to admire his humor and going though a day in the chemo session here and making the best of it. He has a website you can visit to hear his story. The cancer came back 4 times! ";" src="htt…
FDA Finds 14 Additional Chinese Companies That Supplied Contaminated Raw Materials Used to Make Heparin And Puts Out Alert –Time To Start Raising More Pigs in the US?
We all remember the Baxter incident from a few years ago. The FDA has put out a warning list with additional companies listed and they did not know or state if they were current distributors of the raw material that makes the blood thinning drug. Back in October of 2010 it was back in the news aga…
Closed Hospitals in the Los Angeles Area Get a Second Life for Television and Movie Filming as Turn Key Sets
Some facilities are better than others but when you stop and think of the shows we see on television, hospitals are all over the place as someone is always getting shot, or something along that line. The location though formerly used for Scrubs though was not as nice as some of the other locations …
Foundation Medicine - Personalized Medicine for Biopsy DNA Studies - Will Cost $5000 for the “Pan-Cancer” Test - Any Oncologist Will Be Able To Use The Center For Testing
This is very interesting article and goes in depth to discuss how running the DNA on a biopsy can help doctors with prescribing cancer drugs and many of which are still in early testing stages. It could also lead to more patients in that respect being referred to a clinical trial. The big problem…
Minute Clinics Moving to Allscripts Medical Records System So I Guess E-Clinical Works Who Started With CVS Clinics Is Out the Door? How Do Medium/Small Companies Compete with Huge Corporate Conglomerates
Back in January of 2010 this article was out with the two companies collaborating on e-prescribing so what did Allscripts do, edge out eClincalWorks with a corporate package deal? I don’t know that’s what occurred but it’s pretty accurate about 85% of the time today with mergers and acquisitions in…
AMA Selling Online Physician Portal to AT&T–The Amagine Project, There’s Money in Selling And Aggregating Those Algorithms
I guess if you are attending HIMSS this year you can find out more about it at their booth. Writing code or in this case having an outsourced company do you development turns into money, right? The AMA appears to have been just as busy in developing their software house as many vendors have. Bac…
Healthcare Blogger Gets Spammed by Hedge Fund Using Internet “Reputation Restore” With Some Really Bad Algos–Attack of the Killer Algorithms Chapter 20
First of all who was the blogger, it was me of course and this is my story on how this all took place. If you are not familiar with “Reputation Restore” you can search it on the internet and find many companies who will provide this service for you if you feel you have been slammed with bad publici…
