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Some US Pharmacies Sell Inventories to Gray Markets and Huge Profits are Made When Hospitals Buy As There is No Alternative For Life Saving Treatments
Five drugs normally costing $10-$20 were regularly marked up to prices of $200 or more through the gray market was found by an investigation of Congress. This is scary and sad as a drug that would normally cost $10 goes for as much as $500 on the gray market. Jay Rockefeller lead the investigation…
New Laws and Benefits Take Effect August 1st For Women, GOP Still Wants To Repeal Healthcare Law And Their “Default Topic of Abortions” Prevails–Update Law, Not Total Repeal As It Can’t Be Done
Here we go again with a law that needs amendments and changes and that is not due to the fact that it was a bad law, it’s good law, but for goodness sakes talk intelligently and address areas that need change and stop the over all repeal, it’s not doing the GOP any favors. I agree that the law …
FDA Approves the Ingestible Smart Pill “ChipSkin”–Part of the Proteus Wireless Monitoring System that Currently Uses Patches For Heart Rate Monitoring
This may sound a little confusing as the monitoring system and the smart pill received separate approvals from the FDA. There’s also a smart patch which reports back to the Proteus system and that part has been approved. See who the big investors are here with the product, none other that Novartis…
Advertising Reaches a New Low–Marketing Campaigns to Promote Walgreens Private Label Drugs and Products at BlogHer Conference –Commentary
This is a new low in my terms and shows how bad some marketing has become. Below in italics is an email I received today promoting the BlogHer Conference upcoming in New York. Do I care about having the Medical Quack in Lights on Times Square, hardly. I hope the information and opinions attract r…
Investigation Continues With Radiology Technologist Accused of Infecting Dozens of Patients With Hepatitis C in a Long List of Hospitals Where He Worked
This is just scary as to how long he was able to go and how many hospitals he worked at the the cath lab. He was taking the pain killing drug to inject into himself and then the syringes were re-used giving the patient something other than the pain medication they were prescribed. 30 people alone …
Accretive Health Barred From Operating In Minnesota for Two to Six Years–One 3rd Party Collection Agent Patients Won’t Have to Deal With at the Hospital For A While…
If you forget how this all was started it was due to a stolen computer with company personnel sharing actual patient data with investors on Wall Street. The link below can bring you up to date. As Steven Colbert called them the “debt panels”. I hope the patients get some restitution out of all of…
Dendreon to Close New Jersey Plant and Cut 600 Jobs
Sad ending to all the politics and investing stories that took place over this company and it’s not going anywhere but things will be much more difficult and not to mention they have some tough competition today. They made history for sure with their drug and the new treatment to extend lives of me…
Black Hat Conference Shows How Biometric Identification Can Be Fooled and Hacked With Duplicating the Actual Iris–Some Healthcare Entities Are Using Eye Identification for Medical Records
This is something worth paying attention to for sure and is not a panic to think that all systems currently using such systems are a failure by all means. This is more or less a new warning for the companies that manufacture authentication system as such to take another look around and go the next …
Olympics Celebrate the NHS–One of Britain's Greatest Accomplishments With Free Healthcare for All- A Message Sent to the US As Patients Here Struggle With Algorithms, Math and Contracts To Receive Care?
If you have not caught any of the opening events these videos show how proud the UK is of their National Health System as being one of their greatest accomplishments. It has a little bit of everything from the Grim Reaper to Marry Poppins in coming in to take care of the children. Michael Moo…
Cook Medical Cancels Plans for Factory Expansions–We Need Companies That Create Tangible Products As They Create Jobs–Tax The Data Sellers/Brokers Who Make Billions With Data Mining “Killer Algorithms” And Give the Device Companies a Break
Yes I have said this many times and those folks with a few geeks that mine data, to include banks, social networks, high frequency traders, insurance companies and so on make billions with a little code out there on the internet, while companies such as Cook can’t afford to expand and make life savi…
Florida Pharmacy Association Suing the State As Medicaid Patients Can No Longer Use Pharmacy of Their Choice With Amerigroup HMO Contract
Here we go again with the battle of the contracts and restricting patients to where they can and can’t go. When all of this started it was not so bad years ago but now that business intelligence has entered the picture so strongly, the choices are getting fewer and the association here states the c…
FDA Approves Prescription Fish Oil Pill to Treat High Triglycerides–Vascepa
Amarin is the pharmaceutical company that makes the pill. Patients who have fish or shell fish issues are advised to be careful. More information below. BD From the website: “Amarin Corporation plc is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the commercialization and development of therap…
MMRGlobal Expands Outreach to Asia and UK With MyMedicalRecords PHR Services (Personal Health Records)–Sponsor News
If you read my post earlier this week, MyMedicalRecords is a brand new sponsor at the Medical Quack and this makes sense as there’s a lot of PHR information at this site. New press release out today on the expansion beyond the US with meeting with government officials and healthcare regulators in …
The Institute for Research on “Humanism in Medicine” Created by The Gold Foundation–To Better Define the Role of Compassion, Altruism, and Respect To Support the Importance of the Doctor/Patient Relationship
Now this is a bit long over due but very welcome in my opinion. The Institute for Humanism is concerned that the Affordable Care Act will divert attention from the doctor-patient relationship. Have we not all looked for compassion in healthcare at some point and find it missing? It happens as p…
Cerner EHR Remote Hosting Service Goes Down This Week for Several Hours Causes Concern For Hospitals and Physician’s Offices Across the US
How safe is the cloud? The good news is that like any of the other outages it was restored and some hospitals reported they were not able to chart the entire day. With complexities today and data platforms, we are almost all learning to live with it, but with healthcare it’s critical. Obviously i…
Medicaid Cuts Take Place in 13 States in Order to Balance Budgets–Business Intelligence Algorithm Shift of Dollars and Cents
These are a few of the highlighted areas. Thank goodness California doctors were not cut anymore as it’s so hard to find MDs who still take Medicaid. Yes it is the business intelligence software that helps government and companies on figuring where to cut money, where to move company branches, and…
Health Insurance Companies Continue to Outsource Jobs Overseas With Large Focus on the Philippines–Subsidiary Watch
The mention in this article is WellPoint and their subsidiary company Radiant Services which has moved many of their jobs overseas. Also too, I don’t know how it is in other parts of the country, but hospitals here in southern California employee a lot of nurses from the Philippines as their traini…
Hospitals Forgive Medical Care Bills for Victims of Aurora Theater Shooting–No Release Yet on How Many Victims Have Insurance Coverage And What Type of Coverage They Have
This article makes some pretty strong statements and for good reason. What about those who are not involved in a tragedy as such? Granted is is nice that the hospitals chipped in here and again one does wonder if the forgiveness includes those who do have health insurance? It does make one wonder…
First Robotic Assisted System for Coronary Artery Stent Procedures Cleared by the FDA–Interventional Cardiology/Radiology
If you have seen the daVinci robot then this one will look a bit similar as far as the interventional cardiologist or radiologist being seated at a console to guide the stent through your body. The image below gives the picture of how it works. A few years ago I had the chance to speak with Dr…
