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NHS As It Has Been Known For Years Changes Dramatically April 1st and Care for the Poor Will Suffer As Trust GP Services Are Outsourced To Private Industry
This is really kind of sad to see the same toll we face over here with problems with money and banks hitting the NHS too. One industry destroying another one pretty much and all suffer. London has become it’s own island of sorts to where portions are where only the rich and wealthy go and the rest…
mHealth and Other Technologies in Healthcare Experience Slow Growth Is As the Data Selling Epidemic for Shear Profit in the US Continues to Grow Leaps and Bounds Leaving Manufacturing in the Hole and Non Competitive
So, do you wonder why we can’t create more new jobs? Well when one can hire a few technologists and mine data and create analytics by the barrel (which half will end up being useless) why would a company expand with tangibles when a few lines of code and some algorithms can made even more money tha…
“Dead Patients Can’t Be Readmitted” As Relates to HHS and CMS and the Elusive Search for Some Penalty Assessing Algorithm Fairies…
I am all for education and all the efforts hospitals are making in this area, it helps but the penalties by the numbers here with folks in executive positions that think that living by the algorithms is making me crazy. We end up just swapping spit if you will as some of these hospitals will end up…
Johnson and Johnson Recalls Millions of OneTouch Verio Blood Glucose Meters
This is an international recall and it being conducted as the machines can malfunction with an extremely high reading. LifeScan is the company that makes the product. The machine still works for lower readings. Be aware if you are uploading information to your PHR via the unit as you might get a …
FDA Approves J and J New Class of Drug for Diabetes 2, Expelling Sugar Via Urination
Some MDs are cautious with the results and use so far as the drug is basically using a “side effect” as a treatment. I wrote this up a few months ago on how it differs from current products on the market. It’s not cheap though as anything new goes for more money and at almost $9 a tablet, it will …
VA and Department of Defense Medical Records Integration/Aggregation Gets A New Twist as DOD Entertains Canning AHLTA & Getting a New System-VA Suggests Choosing VistA
Data, data and more data. I’m sure there’s been a ton of work here with using the existing AHLTA system from the DOD and working with the VA VistA system as there have been several progress reports and trials as well as VistA working with other commercial medical record systems. Now, scrapping ALT…
Hoag Hospital in the OC CMS Inspection Finds Major Safety Issues
You can read the safety issues below and as the Orange County Register points out the vaccines not being stored properly was one of the main issues among other items listed. The hospital has until May to correct and no doubt I’m sure all will be in compliance when another inspection is conducted. …
Medical Device Companies Not Putting Up a Real Smart Battle to Reverse Device Taxes–Need to Offer Alternative Solutions for Missed Revenue, Taxing & Licensing Data Sellers Would Do It
I read yesterday where the Senate voted to repeal the tax but it doesn’t look real promising for the future. I said this about a year ago about taxing data sellers as a replacement and it even being a larger producer of taxes and revenue to go after a crying need that is there under everyone’s nose…
One Company Markets A Service To Send Patients Home With A Tablet To Communicate and Monitor Patients Discharged from Hospitals
We all know by now that follow up with patients discharged from the hospital is key and all are trying to figure out which way works best and what can be sold to allow this to happen whether it be wearable monitors, an electronic monitoring system and of course the most important part of all of this…
MyMedicalRecord PHR To Begin Offering HL7 Connections to Connect/Interchange With EHRs and EMRs And Push PDF Documents In April
Many PHRs have worked with using an HL7 interface and now MyMedicalRecords adds this capability to their PHR. 4Medica on another note is one of the EHRs that has already signed a license agreement with MMR Global back in December of 2012 as I posted (link below) relative to the protected company pa…
Walgreens Enters Contract and Investment With Amerisource Bergen for Drug Purchases and Distribution, Using Global Interests to Flex Pricing Muscles–Independent Pharmacies Concerned
Cardinal Health will be replaced when their contract expires. Amerisource is global and thus with adding Alliance Boots to the distribution, there’s a lot more negotiating power with purchasing. The deal will add $28 billion in revenue to Amerisource. Meanwhile at the shop, Walgreens is close to …
Moen Retirees to Lose Health Insurance January 1, 2014, Off To Medicare And Exchanges for Coverage
In addition, there’s no money given out to help retirees to purchase health insurance as some companies offer, so I am guessing the exchanges may help fill the gap? Moen makes those nice pretty faucets you see in your bathrooms and kitchens. Current employees are also getting less with a new highe…
Not Receiving Reimbursement on Some Molecular and Other Diagnostic Lab Tests From Medicare, They Didn’t Develop a New Algorithmic Payment Guideline System, So It Came To A Halt
According to this article, which goes into detail if you read the entire summary at the link below pretty much says Medicare was changing their system and way to reimburse and has not done so with some of the newer proprietary tests and so now those in question are just sitting there without getting…
“The Creative Destruction of Medicine”–Colbert Report With Dr. Eric Topol–mHealth (video)
I’m returning back after a few days with family and what better way to start that with Steven Colbert and his interview with Dr. Eric Topol formerly affiliated with the West Wireless Institute and now the Chief Academic Officer of Scripps Health. I first started covering some of his presentations d…
Bill Gates on Washington DC–You Don’t Run a Business Like This…
Bill Gates begins talking about the Gates Foundation and their success with eradicating polio and other vaccine efforts. Somebody cancelled a meeting with Gates to see Obama and there’s a little laugh. Nobody says who it was. This was recorded at POLITICO’s Playbook Cocktails first annual event. …
Big Data–The Data Science Code of Ethics-Designed By Those Who Create Models - Don’t Fall Victim To Write Fictitious Code and Models Just to Make Money With Clients Demanding Such
This of course is very much alive in the financial areas and one of the reasons myself and others who know technology think it is absolutely insane that we are looking at anther attorney to run the SEC. Nothing personal but they can’t move fast enough to keep up. This is sad that so many out there…
