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Consultants Without Borders, the American Professional Political Consultant - The Daily Show
This is so funny and one of the best satires they have put in a while! Making the best of incredible Llama ads! BD The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook Jason Jones investig…
One More Reason To Repeal the Medical Device Tax – Device Companies May Sell Your Data to Pay Their Taxes – Money Has to Come From Somewhere And They Create Jobs in the US
Let’s use some common sense here and I have been a big advocate of removing the tax and putting it where it belongs and guess what, this plays right in there so more of your data is at risk of being sold. This is a very profitable business where companies make millions and billions selling data a…
HealthTap Buys Avvo Doctor Rating and Referral Business and Website
If you read here often enough you know I’m not a big fan of these websites simply because they have so many errors and dump it back on the doctors to have to go to all their various sites and fix their profiles which few of them have time for. There are better services where they actually opt in an…
Here We Go Again With the Old Paradigm Witch Hunt and Over Dramatized Media Reports Regarding Medical Record Stimulus Money Audits And Claims Reviews–Total Waste of Time and Will Hold Back Real Progress
You do really have to fully acknowledge the digital illiteracy of what seems to be mostly the GOP folks that are in office today. You know if the participated in their own health concerns electronically, half of this crap would be on the table for discussion but they still subscribe to “it’s for th…
Women in Science–Hacking the Vagina With A Hands Free Vibrator Built With Open Source Software Demonstrating Motion Control of a Device…
No this is not an X rated post at all but the principles shown here are pretty fascinating on how it was designed and how a 3D printer was used to create the container to hold the wireless device. Be sure you have your wireless network encrypted so this doesn’t get out on the network with an expose…
800 Medical Device Companies Send Letters to Congress Regarding Excise Tax on Devices–Suggested Alternative Has Been Here At the Medical Quack for Months..Tax the Data Sellers Instead
Now that the time is getting closer, the heat is on. When the healthcare reform law was created things were different and the economy was better. Any business in the US making tangibles is having a hard time as Wall Street way over inflated the value of software algorithms, social algorithms you n…
Smith and Nephew Buy Texas Wound Care Firm Healthpoint Biotherapeutics–$782 Million
This seems to be a match of related and similar technologies. It was just earlier this year that the PICO system from Smith and Nephew received FDA approval which is a small device used either at home or at the hospital for therapy to help wounds heal. Just a couple weeks ago the company said th…
MemorialCare in Southern California Buying Assets of an Existing HMO to Create It’s Own Health Plan Names Seaside Health Plan
The new plan will be names Seaside Health Plan and licenses have been applied for. In addition Seaside will also will participate in a state project that addressing the needs of children with certain diseases and chronic conditions. Seaside will support managed care Medi-Cal members. It will be …
New Jersey to Tax Medical Marijuana–Last Roadblock to Launching and Opening Dispensaries
It makes sense to tax and other states are doing it and it is noted that California who is always in the news on this topic will see just under $60 million in revenue. With those who use medical marijuana there’s usually not even so much as a concern about the tax and are happy to pay. We have hea…
UCSF Medical Center Reduced Readmissions With Heart Failure And It Was Not That Magical Flipping Algorithm Everyone Is Looking for That Did the Trick
Everywhere you turn today you are slammed with analytics and not all of it is correct or related properly. If you read here often enough, this old data base person might offer a few words of wisdom in this area since I used to write the stuff and work with doctors on software creation. The crap yo…
San Francisco General Hospital Asking LA Dodgers for a $1.2 Million Dollar Reimbursement for Medical Bills
You may or may not remember this back in 2011 but 2 fans from Los Angeles beat up a San Francisco fan. The 1.2 million is for what is not covered under the man’s personal insurance. That’s a lot of money and after being brutally beaten and spending time in LA, he was transferred to San Francisco w…
FICO Buys CR Software And Gains Access to Revenue Cycle Software Business in Healthcare
CR Software on the website promotes Titanium ORE for medical billing and collection services. FICO has been working to get a hand in healthcare I think for a while. Their horrible mismatched data analytics I think is still out there for medication compliance. We have so many today slapping data b…
Big Data/Analytics If Used Out of Context and Without True Values Stand To Be A Huge Discriminatory Practice Against Consumers–More Honest Data Scientists Needed to Formulate Accuracy/Value To Keep Algo Duping For Profit Out of the Game
This is a great video and the panel really describes the role of the data scientist. They talk about how it gets used and misused at times in the real world like running parametric queries on non parametric data for one example, and people doing really “silly” averages of averages the one panel mem…
American Academy of Family Practice Physicians Survey Doctors Using Electronic Medical Records and Praxis EMR Comes Up Ranked as #1 Preferred
This sounds like a decent size survey and I agree on the fact that Praxis has been around for quite a while as I remembered seeing the concept processor years ago in action just as I was beginning to write my medical records system. I attended a big conference in Los Angeles to where they were a pa…
Siemens to Release the First Wireless Ultrasound –Announced at RSNA the Acuson Freestyle–Scan From Up to 9 Feet Away With Direct Line of Sight
First question asked of course is battery life, which is 90 fun packed minutes of scanning time and it comes with a spare battery pack, so one is good to go for quite a few scans. Not having cords sounds good. Siemens bought a company named Penrith and they are the ones who developed the product. …
Confetti at Thanksgiving Macy Parade Opens Up Investigation As Some of It Contained Private Information From Police Departments And About Romney Campaign Motorcade and More–Privacy?
This is a good one and I’ll be anxious to hear what happens on this one for sure. Did someone decide it was a good time to mix in the confetti with the official confetti that Macy’s uses, or did Macy’s run short and use some from maybe another supplier? These are all just questions since the store…
Ranbaxy Recalling Generic Version of Lipitor–Small Particles of Glass Contamination Cites
This is one of the biggest prescribed generic drugs out there as it was just last year that both Teva and Ranbaxy both announced the immediate sale of their generic Lipitor formulas once the patent expire. Almost 1 million generic prescriptions are written a week for one of the formulas, and that’…
