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Bellevue Hospital Evacuation Still Underway as Reserve Power Stopped Working And No Plumbing
This is the longest operating hospital in the US and the pride of New York which has been known over the years for it’s psychiatric care but they do a lot more. If the hospital can re-open in 2 or e 3 weeks it will be doing good with the extensive damage suffered. There were over 700 patients in…
Well what do you know, we have a PLOS One scientific study that describes why the public, government and many others run away from math. I have this page dedicated to showing all how Quants and those who do not have “Pain” with math or have healed themselves create formulas to take the money and th…
Ameridose Sister Company of NECC Company Linked to Meningitis Outbreak – FDA Recall for “All” Their Drugs Which May Worsen Existing Shortage of Sterile Injectable Drugs
So far there have not been any problems associated with any Ameridose drugs. Ameridose is a different type of company which is FDA approved for distribution of injectable drugs. The company has the same owners as NECC and was actually a spin off of that company a few years back as business was goo…
Health Insurers in California Prepare to Negotiate Contracts with “Covered California” the Branded Name for the California Insurance Exchange–Complexities of Contracts Today Running on Corporate Servers 24/7 Opens the Door for More Sophisticated Algorithms
The insurance exchange business since it was created under the Affordable Care Act has certainly changed it’s landscape since the law was signed. In addition to the state run insurance exchanges, there has been a flurry of “private” exchanges, some run by insurer subsidiary companies appear. This …
Hospitals In New York Encountered Data Disruptions with Electronic Medical Records Systems While NYU Scientists Scrambled to Save and Transfer Research Materials And Information During the Storm
By now we have all probably read about the dramatic evacuation at NY Langone but in addition to the patients themselves there were a few other areas that were affected. Of course getting patients out of the facility was the number one priority but there were a couple reports of some of the othe…
Bayer Buys Utah Nutritional Supplement Company for Over 1 Billion–Schiff Nutrition
Recently too Bayer purchased the pet and animal business from TEVA and this seems go along with what others pharmaceutical companies are doing as far as diversifying as prescription drugs come off patent. Most of the Schiff products are sold in retail locations with Costco and Wal-Mart have the lio…
Those Shoes have Teeth! Predator Shoes Just in Time for Halloween
Now you know where all those teeth go that the dentists pull:) Well maybe not really but when you look at the teeth on these shoes it appears they are not supposed to look the same. Each pair has over 1000 denture teeth. I think there some some on Wall Street that these might appeal to:) Shoes t…
Cleveland Clinic is Next Medical Center to Enroll IBM Watson–Too Bad Our Lawmakers Won’t Use This Technology to Enhance Research To Make Better Laws
Cleveland Clinic joins the ranks of a few other hospitals that are giving big data a shake to sort through the information and allow doctors to sift down to what they need and where they need it without a huge amount of time and effort. Memorial Sloan-Kettering made their announcement and their foc…
“The Doctor Algorithm” –Yet One More Way to Sort and Filter Medical Big Data For Decision Making Processes–MEDgle Software as a Service
Here’s yet one more decision making tool taking advantage of sorting big data. If we get enough of these folks they may all merge one day and have one heck of a system:) It is working in India as the video presentation states. Yes we have financial slant here with the information offered asking “…
NYU Hospital Back Up Generator Fails In Manhattan, Patients Being Evacuated
Patiens are being moved to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Mount Sinai. You can see the ambulances but it looks eerie with no lights. Coney Island was also reported of being surrounded by water. That’s kind of scary seeing everything dark outside the hospital. BD New York News |…
Watson Received Approval for Generic Actos Drug After Judge Orders FDA to Approve It
It was just in August that Mylan pharmaceuticals received approval for their generic and a court case came afterwards, filed by Watson. Side effects include cold-like symptoms, headache, sinus infection, muscle pain, and sore throat and is a treatment for those with Diabetes 2. Now there’s a secon…
New York Digital Health Accelerator–Health IT Hub For Emerging Technologies–Remember All Start Ups Don’t Make It And It’s A Potentially Good Place for Health Insurers to Shop for Inexpensive Application Code
This is a good thing but it is important to remember that all start up companies don’t make it. When you look at the list of investors, you can see that Aetna and United Healthcare are in there as they are not going to miss a potential deal when the price is so reasonable versus having code written…
Healthgrades Updates Their Hospital Scoring Algorithm–Hopefully the “Dead Doctors” and Errors Having Doctors on Staff At Hospitals They Have Set Foot In Gets Corrected Among Other Things..
Here we go again and I’m sure I don’t win any scoring points with the website since I have found discrepancies on their site as blogged on this site over the last couple of years. It all started with me with finding my former doctor, who had been dead for 8 years still listed on their site and I’m …
Additional Information About NECC and Ameridose Continues as FDA Inspection Report is Released
It appears that cleanliness of the clean rooms is what lead to the fungus contamination as well as some of the related articles used in the clean rooms to sterilize. I read somewhere that they turned off the air conditioning from 8 pm to 5 am and that sounded strange. In my prior life in sales I h…
Doctors in Germany Remove 62 Pound Tumor From Woman Who Had Been Diagnosed as Obese
This says a lot for getting a second opinion, but she lost 62 pounds in one swipe. The woman also lost a few other body parts such as her ovary and uterus as that’s where it was attached. The article said the tumor filled up a wheelbarrow and she was was very happy to have it gone It sure is ugly…
Johnson and Johnson Still Not Out of the Recall Business–Surgical Staplers from Ethicon Division And Has Also Stopped Selling One of the Products
This is a class one recall now as of last week. Notices were sent out to stop using the product immediately and to contact Ethicon. One product, the Proximate HCS hemorrhoidal circular stapler has been discontinued. The products were distributed during 2011 and 2012. The problem was with “firing…
Alere Device Maker Received Warning Letter From the FDA Stating The Response To the Agency Was Not Adequate Regarding the Triage Products Recalled
The company will need to revalidate the entire assembly process of the Triage product. The recall was made back in July of this year. The Triage product helps diagnose health conditions such as heart attacks and heart failure, pretty important. The FDA feels there are too many potential incident…
“50 Shades of Rape” –Tina Fey Calls Out the Gray Faced Men…What Happens When Digital Illiteracy And Extreme Algo Duping Takes Over, Their “Default” Topic
This is good and really funny and makes a point. Best I can figure is that they don’t know what else to address or talk about that is relative to making laws and protecting and helping US consumers. Todd Akin sits on the House Science Committee….what a choice and he just can’t find the science stu…
Prostate Cancer Treatment and Monitoring Working In a New Direction with Web Based Proactive Surveillance Combining Efforts of Johns Hopkins and Cedars Sinai
I have always been a fan of registries as they offer so much information that is maybe contained in the data base but is buried and not available in a format that offers intelligence. Patient information is de-identified and there are certain provision for patient to meet to participate in the Nati…
