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How to Help a Family or Loved One In Need CauseWish CrowdFunding (Guest Post)
This is a guest post from the owner of CauseWish, a crowd funding website and if you look on my right hand side you can see mine cause I have set up with another site. Mine is for help with medical bills and funeral expenses as my mother just died of cancer. I helped spread the word of GoFundMe an…
Former Goldman Programmer Still on the Hook for Code Theft, Perhaps Is It Time to Talk About the Model He Was Writing Code For To Finally Figure Out If That Code Had “Real” Value?
There’s been a lot of talk and especially here at this blog about the “models” that are used for software. The Quants are at the top of the ladder here with having the talent to create the models and then the programmers follow up with creating the software and code that is used to execute the math…
MMRGlobal and Chinese EMR to Integrate MyMedicalRecords PHR Using HL7 Technologies
It sounds very similar to what is occurring here in the US and as the press release below notes the original contract was just to sell the MyMedicalRecords PHR in China and now the integration of both will happen with Unis-Tonghe licensing the technology using HL7 standards. The EMR system will pop…
FDA Approves Plan B One Step Contraceptive Without a Prescription for Women 15 Years or Older Honoring the Original Teva Application as Legal Ruling in April Opened the Door
You may or may not remember how this one went down but HHS Secretary Sebelius decided to step in here and over rule the FDA but then a judge over ruled her. It was political and just a weird thing the way she played it out publicly I thought as the FDA works for HHS and that was in poor taste but t…
All of these tracking devices are nice and offer a lot of information. I look at the practical side here from a couple views. I see people buying them and using for a while but then it also seems like there’s a period to where the “novelty” wears off too, in other words used it for a while and the…
Kcentra Approved by the FDA to Reverse the Effects of Warfarin
It is pretty common knowledge that Warfarin can be difficult to regulate and if the blood gets too thin, we now have an antidote. There are two newer drugs where you can read below that Kcentra does not work as they are a different class of blood thinners. As the article states there are some othe…
Bayer Buys Conceptus Contraception Device Company for Around a Billion
You may or may not have heard of the product but it is a device that functions like having one’s tubes tied to prevent an egg from traveling via the fallopian tubes except the procedure can be performed in the doctor’s office and it is a permanent solution. Essure is the name of the product and it …
3D Modeling Glasses Software Company, Patent Battle Going Up Against Big Corporation Health Insurance Company WellPoint Company–Subsidiary Watch
Here’s one that got by me and I don’t catch them all but try to advice when I find perhaps less notable subsidiaries of health insurance companies that are perhaps a few links down the daisy chain. This is the story of a patent battle of the little company versus the subsidiary of WellPoint. Ditto…
Study on How “Jail Breaker” Cancer Cells Escape Tumors and Spread Through the Body
This study had over 100 investigators from 20 institutions working on it so it’s large enough number to substantiate some new findings when determining behavior patterns between metastatic cell and those that are not. They found the metastatic cells were softer and could squeeze through smaller spa…
TechShop–High End Machinery Working With Software Technologies to Create Tangible Products
This is great and they are making “tangible” products using technology and creating new ones. The owner used to be in software development and wanted to “hold things in his hand” so this is combination process of using software with some type of “manufactured” product, so it’s not just software alo…
Angel of Death–Serial Killer Nurse– Technology Audit Records Helped Break the Case–Hospital Lied or Didn’t Know How Long Records Were Kept 60 Minute Video
The story here is about the nurse that was using medications to kill patients in several hospitals. Somerset hospital was where he was finally caught. The nurse was sentenced a few years ago and this is the history and story of how it all went down after several patients were killed. They also us…
If you saw the news in the New York time and read here often enough then you know what the deal is on data selling, privacy and profits. I have quite a few articles about that topic as well as a couple ideas to help regulate and control some of this epidemic that is making everyone crazy and making…
GeneWatch in the UK Warning of the Dangers and Profiteering With Linking DNA To Medical Records With Building Risk Algorithms For Profit–Personalized Marketing Without Consent
We know that marketing today is on steroids and myself the no call list is even becoming a farce and doesn’t work well anymore. The calls keep coming so again I return back to needing laws that have real IT Infrastructure that regulate as without it, we have laws with no balls. It seems like that’…
Cook Recalls Zilver PTX Drug Eluting Stent Due to Potential Delivery System Separation Prompts
I covered the Cook Zilver Stent quite a bit here as it’s one that goes in the leg to help fight PAD. The recall is for systems that have not been used and patients who have the implant are fine and do not need to worry. Stents in the leg area are more rugged and have stealthier builds than one for…
Richard Cordray, Fail With Understanding Flawed Models and Algorithms -Big Case of“Algo Duping”With Big Data-Save Time, Hire Quants Who Know How Consumer Financial Models Are Built and Function…Geez
He starting to remind me of Blue Cross and their data mining to find out if their insured were buying clothes a size larger. Anyway in reading this article he’s sucked in and watch the 4 videos in the footer of this blog to see how modeling, math and programming works. Sub prime could not have hap…
UPS Acquires European Pharmaceutical Logistics Company CEMELOG Moving Closer to Pharmacy Benefit Management Business Models
UPS is getting closer to being a Pharmacy Benefit Manager or Tactical Partner as when you look at how they are filling orders from medical devices and the IT Infrastructure they presently have in house, well it’s just moving that way. A ways back I was talking to a UPS executive and I mentioned tha…
