First off you have to kind of like this name as it’s not your typical name for a device company and actually it’s one you can somewhat 
remember as it stands out. TENS units have been out for a number of years and I remember using one years back and they keep getting better. The Wi-Touch devices that focus on back pain are exactly that, an improvement. It has a wireless device to control the unit and it is small enough to wear under clothing. The battery life is not bad either with 150 30 minute treatments before it needs a re-charge. It also states that the coverage area is much larger and just looking at the images you do notice that and it has replaceable gel pads.
The Wi-Touch will be available over the counter for a cost of $150.00 and the Pro version will need a prescription. The company does manufacture and create standard TENS products as well. Both the Pro and OTC versions of the product are wireless and it appears the Pro version has a bit higher output than the one over the counter. This sure look like a treatment that can help to avoid taking a lot of pain medications for patients if their body reacts positively to the treatment. I would guess that anyone who uses a TENS technology product would be a good candidate for this product. Right now the company only has 7 employees and they plan to release additional products in the future geared towards pain management. BD
Hollywog, a seven-person medical equipment startup on Amnicola
Highway, starts domestic distribution of its one-of-a-kind back pain relief product next week and will begin worldwide distribution in the next two months. Government regulators approved the WiTouch and the WiTouch Pro earlier this week, and the devices soon will appear at chiropractor and physical therapy offices and independent drugstores.
The basic WiTouch, usable only on the lower back, will be available over the counter for less than $150. The WiTouch Pro is for use on the lower and upper back and will be covered by some insurance plans, but will require a prescription. "For a small startup, we have probably the most experienced staff globally for product development and marketing," Thomas said. "I was real fortunate to be able to have them come work directly for Hollywog."
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2012/aug/25/chattanooga-companys-device-targets-back-pain/
was admitted; however, the prosecutors didn’t find any wrong doing either so human error with input or the algorithms created this one as it was a coding error with reimbursing SCAN at the wrong levels, as if all patients were under the care of a nursing home which is a higher level. The whistle blower though says the case was at the fault of SCAN and the case was filed in 2009. 
“coding” suits will keep appearing and shifting money? Again it’s the involvement of the 3rd parties that sell their analytics and coding software based on the promise that they can cut expenditures and save money as well as not leave any money laying on the table at the same time, and the latter is where the coding comes in. 
far this year has not placed the order. The vaccine, called Immune is 95% of the company revenue. There are other vaccines produced that are also a single treatment but vaccines from other companies are not necessarily safe for individuals with compromised immune systems and thus this is where the drug comes in to play. Again this is the only company that makes the vaccine for those at risk and without an order it could run out of money and go away and we don’t want that. Other sources of funding I’m sure would also be entertained as well. BD 
By looking at the pipeline you can see there are also some oncology drugs such as the one in trials for prostate cancer as vaccine. BD 
percent of its revenue, said Anders Hedegaard, CEO of the Kvistgaard, Denmark-based biotechnology firm. It was awarded a $500 million U.S. health contract for 20 million doses in 2007. Without the new order, the impact on the company “would be dramatic,” he said. The firm already has begun firing workers and scaling down production. 
of it a couple weeks ago so I assume I’m fine. The candy has elevated levels of lead and I am curious as to how it got there. Lead poisoning is hard to detect. At any rate, don’t eat the stuff and wait until a new batch comes out. Where’s those bar codes I say to identify them? Maybe one of these days we might get there. BD 
appeal to the insurance commissioner as a next step so it’s wait and see time here with this aware. Of course this is not as big as the Tri-Care contract to where United sued to get that contract. So what will they do next if the appeal is not successful, sue? A few months ago the company hired the former Assistant Attorney General of Minnesota as general counsel so were they anticipating lawsuits over contract disputes? Actually with the Tri-Care contract it appears that the loss by the Blue Cross subsidiary Tri-West is going to put them out of business in April when United takes over and who knows what subsidiaries of the subsidiary Tri-West United could gobble up and buy between now and then. 
avenue of getting a drug to market they could handle it from the beginning with the introduction to the FDA via consulting services all the way down to reimbursement. So you do wonder at times as you know they maximize their use of data if the data runs between subsidiaries to give leads to other parts of the conglomerate to rush in for a sale? An example would be contract cuts for doctors and then another division could rush in to sell them software to be more efficient..think that happens out there? They also just created a new clearinghouse subsidiary to work with Epic medical records. 
division that was purchased last year, Synthes. Occasionally there are fires in surgery but we don’t need a product that could contribute and thus the recall and this is a class one so all need to stop using the product immediately. 
pathetic Congress that is so digitally illiterate they can’t see what’s going on either to create better laws. The head of HHS and SEC by today’s standards are both way over their heads and we need Executives here that have some technology in their background too. Nothing personal and I like that fact that they are women here, but step aside before things deteriorate more and leave with a good reputation because the battle is getting worse and it’s a battle of technology in both areas. We don’t have time for extra briefings, etc. just watch the news every day and we see how far behind we are. Hillary Clinton’s job is different as her job is diplomacy and human ethics so she’s right where she belongs. In areas like the SEC and HHS, people with a law degree no longer fit the bill, it’s the hybrids that understand law and can do some area of technology. So now listen to this video and see what you think.. 
Higgins and conservative broadcaster Michael Graham has found a new lease on life on the Internet and is approaching 500,000 views on YouTube. Give it a listen, and you will understand why: 
with logistics managers who got so frustrated on orders shipped the last day of the month that were not “real” and then they would have the expense of the return of the products once they were refused, so the logistics department paid for this as well. All of this activity was done to meet the Wall Street forecasts but all of this comes back to bite eventually. Sometimes if companies are not doing this the use of “blind” shipments can create more areas of unknowns as well with finding true points of origin. Back in my days as a sale rep these double route shipments did add a few dollars for meeting quota but never enough to where it really mattered as any kind of a dollar maker for sure. 
and the infection was linked to three other patients as it spread, even though in an isolation area. The NIH hospital of course is the model for which other hospitals in the US and world for that matter. 
with the firm. The company was based in Tampa, Florida. Medicare found at this time that they had insufficient funds to assure payment of claims and losses. The plan has 10,000 members and they all returned to the original Medicare plan. 
taxing “any” data seller..law enforcement would have had grounds here, “selling data without a license” so this is really beginning to make sense as well as the ability to generate huge tax funds, maybe even bigger than taxing the rich! The pot here is huge and companies are at all time profit highs because of this as there’s little overhead and some analytics are pretty useless and just written to sell data that they get for free, to make a buck. 
There’s the big part of the insanity today and when a naïve novice looks at such numbers a patient may get denied access to medications. Duh? 
and this too brought up patient permission as they were quite shocked when they returned to their normal pharmacy and were asked to pay $600 as the other pharmacy had already charged the insurance company before they ever got a chance to even pick up the prescription. Again with the EMR data floating out there, what next with the world of connected algorithms for consumers? The prescription situation was noted by several that patient permission would solve that issue too. BD 
clinics is provided by Greenway Medical and now in addition to the clinics access will be available in all retail stores and I’m guessing this is for the benefit of the pharmacists to consult with consumers. Walgreens is going the mile here to connect all the data they can in various areas. From a couple months ago you can see where you can get text messages as to what may be on sale outside of the pharmacy area when you enter a store.
“hawked” for all these services as they seem to have more value to me when I make my own choices and I’m not having a pharmacists pushing it on me. Been there and done that with refills at Walgreens and the auto refills and frankly in addition to filling my prescription from the other side of the coin, how much more are you going to throw at the pharmacist too I ask? If all of this is too much to absorb, good news here is that more Walgreens stores are selling spirits too, so grab a bottle on your way with with your prescription <grin>. So far Walgreens doesn’t scan alcohol like Target does I think, more data for sale with that effort. 
as you can put your medications in there and share with a pharmacists too and this way if I decide to share, they have more than just the Walgreens records. So for me, not big news and I wonder if this is really necessary. We all know that Walgreens makes millions selling prescription and other data too and in 2010 they made just short of $800 million so I wonder if they hit billion dollar mark in 2011? If you read here often enough you know what I say about the data sellers, banks, businesses, and so forth…excise tax them as they get their data for nothing and profits for free. That was Chapter 17 of the Attack of the Killer Algorithm series and there’s a few more posts around her on this topic. So again, what’s the competitor here CVS going to do with Allscripts? I guess we wait and see. BD 
another company purchased that offers state of the art care for seniors, assisted senior living so making money off retirement continues to grow for investors. In particular the website focuses on centers where those with Alzheimer's can live as well as regular nursing homes. Maybe is this better to have a hospital run these types of facilities? Could be as nursing homes run by PE firms has drawn a lot of fire and attention over the last few years. At any rate some PE folks are cashing in here. BD 
. IntegraCare’s current owner private equity firm Flexpoint Ford LLC could earn an additional $4 million in cash based on the company’s 2013 earnings.
Oh it is getting so tiresome listening to such as this is just psychology gone whacked out for lack of a better way to say it. Sure we have an apology but did he really mean it? I think he really believed what he said. Trouble is that when you converse with crowds that have the same stands, you start believing what is “not real” and this was loud and clear and again makes for big news rating. Ho hum, just one more digital illiterate that keeps the world and lawmakers from focusing on what is important. If he slipped once on this topic, what’s to stop him from doing it again and what we heard was what he feels and the public apology doesn’t mean much. Time to get out of the race and let someone with some real intelligence get in there. 
and use some of the same business intelligence that corporate companies use as they are being buried in the dirt and sadly at the same time, they bury us with them as we suffer. They don’t get that servers running 24/7 programmed with queries and algorithms are running the country based on what parameters are entered by those who write code. They couldn’t even recognize a tool for modeling new laws when it was presented to them and thought IBM Watson was just for game shows…well maybe Washington is nothing but that today, a game show. 
desperately needs attention and is a way to generate tax revenue from banks and corporations that reeling in the money in off the backs of US consumers and nobody’s minding this show and we all suffer because all of this is over their heads…digital illiterates. Corporations and banks have to just love this distraction with women’s health issues as they can keep working in the background and make more money. 
ready to go to market and the task is huge. I think one thing that was learned from the show down was that people now know that it takes time and a lot of code to integrate two pretty massive systems and a warning for marketing not to get ahead of itself with sales projections. That’s a real spot to be in as shareholders want the latest updates and you want it to be good to keep money rolling in. This makes sense to work with Microsoft since there’s a lot of their technologies already used within the systems. 
and Microsoft Amalga integration which is part of the new integrated systems to go into the Allscripts system, so I am guessing too that the integrated system is going to have components of Amalga in there as well for the intelligence type reporting. The NHS uses Amalga Healthcare integration services too. 
In addition, American Well video conferencing and doctor consults is also on slate to begin a pilot program. I look back to the Mysis days and this has been one big roll of software and integration in constant motion for sure and the system will be ready for Windows 8. BD 
Steward Health Care System LLC, which has amassed a chain of 10 community hospitals in Massachusetts, signed a letter of intent to buy financially struggling Mercy Health System of Maine from a Catholic hospital group. 
advising that goes along with the process, especially if the test were to show a positive result. Doctors are already maxed out in so many areas and again this would add for a much longer consult time and the old 99213 consult for a positive result is not going to cut it for the reimbursement time. As mentioned, the FDA has approved the OraQuick test which is expected to sell for around $60 for a consumer to do an over the counter test. One wonders is this the correct route to go to home test first and then go see the doctor? Obviously all who would use a home test would need to be plugged in to a resource to where free initial counseling and advice would be given to get the consumer on the right track to include urging making an appointment to see your doctor. 
and lower all the time and there are tons of articles on this blog to substantiate but perhaps refusing the insurer’s payments and billing patients was going just a little too far. She worked in an emergency room and was allowed to bill for the amounts not covered by insurance payments. Here in the OC we have a ton of complications with insurance companies buying physician's groups. One day this big surge of subsidiaries with insurers may come back to bite as the algorithms and contracts are getting beyond workability of many. 
not fall under federal law so they can buy and sell data and use it to market as well. Ever wonder why you get some solicitations at times either in the mail or online? What if an insurance company is using such “scoring”? If there are exchanges set up, what good does it do to help those who are no insured with some bad credit rating information as those are the folks struggling to make a come back and obviously they are the crowd the healthcare reform law is trying to help. If e-scoring is used to determine how to sell and market them with credit scoring sources outside the normal federally approved sources, what’s this going to do? 
Recently in the news the question of why the HCA hospital chain is so profitable…do they use services as such? Might be good question to ponder? 
what companies are using such analytics and how will they be used to cherry pick and deny applicants and “algo dupe the consumer and government”. It’s an algorithm game. Health insurance exchanges will fail if credit companies as such are not brought under Federal Law as the algorithm scoring games will flow. Right now this doesn’t speak well for HHS director Sebelius with her own former state where she was governor returning federal funds for insurance exchanges. Do you think they might know something in Kansas about how some of this works? This is why I keep saying we need someone in charge at HHS with some data knowledge so they can think on their feet quickly as figurehead executives are becoming a thing of the past. 
if nobody addresses it and will make the insurance exchange business nothing but a zoo and disappointment for consumers. Again it is the Attack of the Killer Algorithms and it appears that we have a Congress that has no clue on how to “model” laws that will work. If you don’t look at every angle of a law and how it will play out, this is what you get, the battle of the algos on consumers. Again these types of agencies should be regulated under federal control and they should pay to be licensed and assessed big excise taxes and I think about this as a consumer when I have to pay an excise tax to buy a tire. Tax the intangibles that companies use today for big profits and give the consumers and the companies making tangibles that we need to live a break! 
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Math–This Could be a Subject for Michael Moore to Explore and Document In a Movie
Screenings Too–Killer Algorithms Part 12–Medical Billing Codes Style
Duping” Society Combined With A World of Rogue Algorithms & Flawed Data Continues In Markets As Seen With Knight Capital This Week-Attack of the Killer Algorithms Chapter 36
Study Fraud With EHR Technologies, Namely Medical Records/Billing Software Used by Hospitals– HHS And SEC Continue Getting Their Non-Algorithmic Fannies Kicked–Attack of the Killer Algorithms Chapter 46
SilverScript Senior Drug Program Sanctioned by Medicare Until the Payment And Billing Algorithms are Cleaned Up-Killer Algorithms Chapter 53
