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Former Wall Street Banker Dies in Court Room After Jury Returns a Guilty Verdict for Setting His Mansion on Fire in Phoenix
He was no longer able to make the big payments on his house in Phoenix and the jury found him guilty of setting his home on fire in order to cash in on the insurance. This appears from what everyone is saying to be suicide in the courtroom and as others are saying this may end up being a bo…
Cigna To Purchase Medicare Advantage Plans In Texas and Arkansas From Humana To Satisfy Purchase of Arcadian Medicare Advantage Business & More Plans Left To Sell –Subsidiary Watch
Corporate acquisitions certainly are not simple today. Humana purchased Arcadian and in the interest of not having a monopoly they need to sell off and divest part of that business. This is fine for the that sake, but the current policy holders get shuffled to Cigna. In addition there are additio…
Kinect Accelerator Day Where Developers Showcase What They Have Developed–Several Innovative Healthcare Applications Represented
This is post worth taking a look at and I’ll just try to summarize what is covered here relative to healthcare from the “Next at Microsoft” blog. This apparently was a big day for VCs to come and take a look at what’s happening with Kinect and healthcare was represented well. Dr. Crounse from Micr…
US CIO Steven VanRoekel and CTO Todd Park Talk About What Is Happening With Government Innovation (Video)
This is nice to have the two of them together, policies, people and permission are the 3 “P”s that VanRoekel begins with and nice to hear “permission” included in there. They discuss the Blue Button in healthcare in one area and the importance of exposing government to new technologies. Open d…
Melinda Gates Talks About Family Planning– Steven & Melinda Foundation” Returns (Video)
This a return visit and Melinda Gates gives an update on their work in the world and also discussed family planning here in the US and all over the world. A while back she spoke at one of the TED conferences and really gave a great talk about family planning. Colbert talks about how controversia…
SEC May Have Nasdaq Fix Their Code and Upgrade–CEO Blames The Tech Department & CIO - IBM Might Land A Big New Project
What happens when you have a CEO that doesn’t know or have his hand in at least a little technology, this maybe. IT Departments are an easy target for just about anything and sometimes they are at fault an sometimes not. End users usually hate them as they can’t give them everything they want and …
FDA Approves Mirabegron–New Drug for Over Active Bladders
The drug is taken once a day and there was a higher rate of tumors compared to placebos during trials. BD U.S. drug regulators approved Astellas Pharma Inc's pill for overactive bladder on Thursday, boosting the Japanese drugmaker's foothold in the market for the condition. Mirabegron, the fi…
Healthcare Reform Laws Stand–Time For More Work On Health IT Business Models/Software/Algorithms For Insurers And Time For Congress To Sift Out Their Differences and Explore Using Some Better Lawmaking Models For the Future
Ok this is not the same type of response you are seeing everywhere else but if you read here often enough you wouldn’t expect a “magpie” type of editorial either, so we continue on with the opinion of another bird, a duck:) I do have to say I found the ruling interesting and overall good as when yo…
Advocate Health Care Conducted Drug Study Without Patients’ Consent In the ER Comparing Outcomes of 2 Drugs –FDA Sends Warning Letter
This was a study that basically turned into a clinical trial when the processes were changed. Originally one drug was being studied but then the clinical investigator decided to compare 2 drugs and at that point patient consent was required, but they didn’t do it. The FDA wants a plan submitted to…
FDA Approves New Diet Pill But DEA Has To Approve Dosage Levels First Before It Can Be Sold
Why does the DEA have to approve? The drug is in a category for potential abuse. Belviq works on activating a receptor in the brain, serotonin that helps you forget about wanting to eat. The concern here is the similarity with the drug fen-phen that was pulled from the market as it had potential …
Hospital and Cerner Split Ways Over Medical Records System Purchase–Hospital Appears to Have Lacked In House IT Expertise for Guidance and Implementation
After reading this article and having been in this business for a while it somewhat tells me that the expertise needed by the hospital was not there and they didn’t understand the complexities of how a hospital medical record system worked. You can read where the hospital only has 2 IT people and I…
UPS Healthcare Fulfillment Centers Continue to Grow And What Effect Could This Have on the Future Further Changing the Pharmacy Benefit Business?
Before I got into healthcare I spent about 25 years in logistics and about the time I left the industry, this trend was already beginning and it used to be where the shipments were created on the platform or dock of the common carrier and now it has grown to where the common carriers and parcel carr…
FDA Approves New Blood Test for Prostate Cancer For Men With PSA Levels Just Above Normal Range
Perhaps this will add some additional definitive information on the PSA testing which has been in the news frequently for discussion as to whether it should be used for screening or not. This test appears to add some additional decision making information if any actions or treatments are needed/dis…
Obamacare – GOP Senate Candidate Richard Mourdock Accidentally Puts His Prepared Response on YouTube Saying Healthcare Was Defeated –Colbert Report (Hilarious Video)
This is funny and Colbert does a great job as usual. I wonder how long this was up on YouTube:) He pre-taped and posted his response, what a predictor and he says the Supreme Court ruled that Healthcare Reform was unconstitutional. The GOP gets less smart all the time. Colbert said he didn’t…
Roche To Cut 1000 US Jobs–Closing New Jersey Facility and Head of Pharma Research Leaving the Company
This is the location to where Valium was created and was the former headquarters for Roche prior to the purchase of Genentech and the corporate offices moved there. This seems to be a slow shut down that they hope to have done by the end of 2013 and the facility is huge. It somewhat reminds me of …
SEC Playing Catch Up With Technology–Working With Big Data Experts To Analyze Social Media Impact–It’s About Time As Reuters Is Already Way Ahead With Psychological Analytics Using Machine Learning To Foster Trading on Emotions
I must say this is a “good” thing for the SEC and glad someone moved on it as there is no other federal agency that needs big data and intelligence analytics worse. By contrast you can see what Reuters is offering with adding a new tweak so you can see when fat ladies think about singing, when they…
Madonna On Tour Uses “DNA Sterilization Team” to Clean and Disinfect Her Dressing Rooms–Beware of the DNA Snatchers…
I wrote the post back in December of 2010 with the title to beware of the DNA Snatchers of the future and now it looks like the future is here, or at least Madonna is not taking any chances. Private investigators soon may take on a whole new identify. As we have all read your DNA can easily be pic…
One More Source of Healthcare Expenditures–Hiring “Experts” to Help Hospitals and Providers Document and Code As The System Complexities Grow for Reimbursement Leaving the Clinical Side Behind With Priority At Times With Patient Care
In reading this article, this is what is happening now as folks are calling in the “consultants” who they have to pay to teach the doctors, nurses and others on staff how to document so claims are paid correctly and promptly. Who pays for this, the hospitals, so one more expense coming on board for…
Accretive Health Fails to Adequately Respond to Congress And Loses Contract with Second Hospital–A Total of Nine Notebooks Were Stolen or Missing
This keeps getting uglier and when you look at it, it was the business intelligence algorithms that drove all of this as that is the way to profit and make money. Now there’s nothing wrong with that if you are ethically doing business, but as you read in the news, we are all of sudden finding a ent…
Cook Medical Sponsors Clinical Study–New Endovascular Technique With Potential to Reduce A Large Number of Leg Amputations For Patients Suffering from PAD
this is the first study to examine the a new, endovascular approach to treating critical limb ischemia (CLI) – a symptom of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) and if you are not familiar with PAD (peripheral arterial disease) , here’s a couple back links and an interview I did with Cook Medical a whi…
