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Chinese Man Builds Homemade Dialysis Machine To Keep Himself Alive for 13 Years As He Could Not Afford Treatment
Chinese Man Builds Homemade Dialysis Machine To Keep Himself Alive for 13 Years As He Could Not Afford Treatment

He couldn’t afford going to the hospital either according to this article as they did find out about him and it was still off limits with insurance even as the basic insurance only covers about half the cost and then other insurance or the patient has to pay the other half..sound like the same expen…

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31Jan2013


Aetna Payment of $120 Million To Settle 15 Year Ingenix/United HealthCare Out of Network Erroneous Payment Algorithms Cuts Income for 4th Quarter
Aetna Payment of $120 Million To Settle 15 Year Ingenix/United HealthCare Out of Network Erroneous Payment Algorithms Cuts Income for 4th Quarter

Here’s one more settlement and it’s affect on profits and I must say that for their time and what Ingenix was doing with their algorithms they had money from both sides, first from the short payments and secondly from other companies like Aetna and Health Net for another licensing the use of the cus…

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31Jan2013


Bill Gates Visits The Colbert Report–Talks About Data and Tracking Money To See Results With the Gates Foundation–Only 250 Cases World Wide of Polio
Bill Gates Visits The Colbert Report–Talks About Data and Tracking Money To See Results With the Gates Foundation–Only 250 Cases World Wide of Polio

This was a first for Bill Gates and Melinda Gates has been on the Colbert Report a couple times.  All the Gates Foundation discussions revolve mostly around healthcare and education.  Bill Gates talks about polio and the results seen on eradicating the disease.  Colbert asks why are you helping othe…

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31Jan2013


Preventive Medicine Saving Money, Not Quite Says New Study So Your Body Is Not Sinking A Big Hole in the Economy But A Huge Increase of Additional Stats, Reports With Media Stir Sets the Stage For Corporations To Acquire More Data to Sell For Profit
Preventive Medicine Saving Money, Not Quite Says New Study So Your Body Is Not Sinking A Big Hole in the Economy But A Huge Increase of Additional Stats, Reports With Media Stir Sets the Stage For Corporations To Acquire More Data to Sell For Profit

I’m glad this report came out and it’s common sense.  Sure there are routine items we have checked when we visit the doctor and education and awareness are key for sure and endeavoring to live healthier life styles.  This should make many feel good and I have said for quite a while that the messages…

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31Jan2013


Woman Wakes Up at Hospital in Brooklyn With Man Groping Her in the ER
Woman Wakes Up at Hospital in Brooklyn With Man Groping Her in the ER

How about finding out you have a level 2 sex offender in the bed next to you, not what I would want.  He crawled into her bed in the ER room.  He just got out of prison a couple weeks ago.  The hospital has security and she got a hold of them immediately and the police came out and took him away.  S…

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30Jan2013


MMRGlobal (MyMedicalRecords.Com) Files Complaint In California Against Walgreen For Technology Patent Violations
MMRGlobal (MyMedicalRecords.Com) Files Complaint In California Against Walgreen For Technology Patent Violations

Walgreen has also been on a pretty expansive acquisition route with their European investment/purchase of Boots Drugs Stores in the UK so I am not sure if they fall into this filing or not but domestically they have made some large drug store purchases in the last few years such as Longs, Duane …

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30Jan2013


Readmission Analytics  Not Much Better Than Flipping A Coin,  Large and Poorest Hospitals At Risk Of Facing Larger Fines, CMS Needs Some New Math Models and Algorithms
Readmission Analytics Not Much Better Than Flipping A Coin, Large and Poorest Hospitals At Risk Of Facing Larger Fines, CMS Needs Some New Math Models and Algorithms

Well this appears to have been a straight linear calculation that went south and even it if were to be done in a linear basis, oh my gosh, trying to find relationships with such varied data would require some real stretching of a formulas for sure.  Everyone was looking for that “magical algorithm” …

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29Jan2013


New York-Presbyterian Hospital To Take Over Debt of New York Downtown Hospital Located Near the Financial District
New York-Presbyterian Hospital To Take Over Debt of New York Downtown Hospital Located Near the Financial District

We are still seeing hospitals without enough money and here’s yet one more that has already been affiliated with NY Presbyterian and this cements it.  The state has not been interested in bailing out hospitals for the most part and due to it’s location it responds to many emergencies, like the 911 a…

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29Jan2013


Johns Hopkins Performs Double Arm Transplant Little Over A Month Ago and Has Movement in One Arm So Far
Johns Hopkins Performs Double Arm Transplant Little Over A Month Ago and Has Movement in One Arm So Far

This is great as he lost all four limbs and served the country and was hurt in Iraq.  It was just done a little over a month ago and he already has some movement with the one arm.  Poor guy doesn’t have legs either so this is big for him.  BD  Twenty-six-year-old Brendan Marrocco was the fir…

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29Jan2013


Patrick Soon-Shiong, LA’s Wealthiest Resident Forms A New Company NantOmics For Cancer Research With A Social Twist to Compare Data
Patrick Soon-Shiong, LA’s Wealthiest Resident Forms A New Company NantOmics For Cancer Research With A Social Twist to Compare Data

This is about a more targeted treatment for cancer with NantOmics the sister company of NantWorks which you can read more about at the link below.  You can read some of his history in the original article on the cancer drug company he sold to amass his wealth.  He sent software out to 8,000 oncologi…

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29Jan2013


Doctor in Newport Beach, California Gunned Down and Killed in Examining Room by 75 Year Old Patient
Doctor in Newport Beach, California Gunned Down and Killed in Examining Room by 75 Year Old Patient

This is not too far from me, next beach city south.  The man doing the shooting was a senior at 75 years old.  The doctor was a urologist.  The patient did the shooting right in the exam room.  He lived in Lake Elsinore so he had a bit of a drive to Newport Beach to see the doctor.  Police have no m…

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29Jan2013


Beth Israel Deaconess Medical System To Buy Jordon Hospital, Severing Ties With Tufts
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical System To Buy Jordon Hospital, Severing Ties With Tufts

Jordan hospital in Plymouth dropped to turning a loss in July and that just could have something to do with being owned by Beth Israel.  Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Milton and Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Needham are two other hospitals already under the system.  Looks like Dr. Halamka has one …

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28Jan2013


Dragon Medical With NoteSwift Software Needs No Mouse At all With an EHR-Amazing Charts & Other Systems
Dragon Medical With NoteSwift Software Needs No Mouse At all With an EHR-Amazing Charts & Other Systems

This was just too cool not to mention.  If you have used speech recognition from Dragon with an EHR/EMR then you will probably find this of interest.  Sure this is the founder of the product and he’s got it down to a science here and in the video he’s using it with Amazing Charts.  There’s also a ve…

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28Jan2013


Time to Take HIPAA Out of the Healthcare Silo–Needs to Be Integrated In Overall Privacy Laws  Healthcare Information Is All Over The Place And Privacy Efforts Will Fail Without Real Algorithmic Levels of Regulation
Time to Take HIPAA Out of the Healthcare Silo–Needs to Be Integrated In Overall Privacy Laws Healthcare Information Is All Over The Place And Privacy Efforts Will Fail Without Real Algorithmic Levels of Regulation

How do we know who’s marketing us and who sells data?  Consumer need a place on the web to look this up and so far all we get are the privacy statements that are written by attorneys that hardly anyone can understand and they done that way on purpose.  We can reference all kind of other informat…

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28Jan2013


EMR Trade Group Asking the ONC When Are You Going to Have the Certification Software Up and Working Again-Can’t Get Systems Approved for Stage Two Meaningful Use–”Killer Algorithms Chapter 52”
EMR Trade Group Asking the ONC When Are You Going to Have the Certification Software Up and Working Again-Can’t Get Systems Approved for Stage Two Meaningful Use–”Killer Algorithms Chapter 52”

Who doesn’t have software bugs today, stock exchanges, Medical Quack, ONC and the list goes on and on and it’s part of life today and when things come to a screeching halt everyone screams. We have this happen in all parts of our lives but when it means can’t get money from somewhere or meet deadli…

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28Jan2013


FDA Approves Merck Over The Counter Version of Oxytrol to Treat Over Active Bladders
FDA Approves Merck Over The Counter Version of Oxytrol to Treat Over Active Bladders

Oxybutynin is the drug that is in the patch used to help patients with over active bladders and relaxes the organ.    A patch can be applied every 4 days.  It is the first drug in it’s class to be approved for over the counter use.  BD    (Reuters) - Health regulators approved Merck & Co's nonprescr…

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27Jan2013


FDA Approves Three New Drugs To Treat Diabetes Type 2 from Takeda Pharma
FDA Approves Three New Drugs To Treat Diabetes Type 2 from Takeda Pharma

Oseni is the branded name under which the drugs will be sold and there is a black box warning relative to cardiovascular disease.  The standalone drug, Alogliptin, has been studied in clinical trials which involved and has been considered safe so it appears when the combinations are prescribed, this…

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27Jan2013


United Healthcare Buys Humedica and Gets More Data to Analyze and Sell To Medical Device and Drug Companies–More Big Profits From Health Data
United Healthcare Buys Humedica and Gets More Data to Analyze and Sell To Medical Device and Drug Companies–More Big Profits From Health Data

Yes United probably makes more money selling data out there than most do as it started years ago with Ingenix and they have a a full set of analytics where they sell data.  It started out selling prescription data and has grown big time since then.  Managing care and selling data are two big profit …

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25Jan2013
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