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Web Services Allow Small Companies to Sync Data Via Web Services Without Writing Code Between Applications, Used As An Internal Tool for Increased Productivity and Secondly Businesses Will Use To Create Additional Data For Sale
Web Services Allow Small Companies to Sync Data Via Web Services Without Writing Code Between Applications, Used As An Internal Tool for Increased Productivity and Secondly Businesses Will Use To Create Additional Data For Sale

There’s a ton of applications listed here and this company allows the updating and sharing of data as the article explains and you can watch the video to see how this works as it’s building data base information.  The next choice is up to the user to focus on their internal applications they use or …

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30Sep2013


Cigna To Partner With SocialWelth Platform Owned By PE Firm and Blue Cross to Market Apps, Data Selling Epidemic Continues
Cigna To Partner With SocialWelth Platform Owned By PE Firm and Blue Cross to Market Apps, Data Selling Epidemic Continues

You can say one thing, insurers are sticking together here to help make money for each other with subsidiaries.  I keep telling a lot of the data gathering actions take place with subsidiaries so they can turn it around and sell either the data or the data profiles to make money, selling data.  Not …

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30Sep2013


Whether It’s An Insurance Exchange or Stock Exchange Nobody Knows for Sure What You May See When The Screeching & Sometimes Spasmodic Algorithms Come Out To Play..
Whether It’s An Insurance Exchange or Stock Exchange Nobody Knows for Sure What You May See When The Screeching & Sometimes Spasmodic Algorithms Come Out To Play..

Unless you have been living under a rock there have been many glitches on the stock markets of late as volume of algorithms and trading accessing and trading data keep going up.  You are really not sure of the entire outcomes until the “algos” are done playing.  With the new insurance exchanges, gue…

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28Sep2013


Medtronic Gets FDA Approval of the MiniMed® 530G Insulin Pump With Enlite® Using Artificial Pancreas Technology
Medtronic Gets FDA Approval of the MiniMed® 530G Insulin Pump With Enlite® Using Artificial Pancreas Technology

The device is  getting closer to a fully automated artificial pancreas.  It uses Threshold Suspend, which automatically stops insulin delivery when sensor glucose levels reach a preset low level.   The Enlite sensor is used when the patient does not respond to the the alert if let’s say one were sle…

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27Sep2013


Panasonic Selling Their Healthcare Business to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts Private Equity/Consulting Firm For $1.67 Billion
Panasonic Selling Their Healthcare Business to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts Private Equity/Consulting Firm For $1.67 Billion

Panasonic is selling 80% of the business and the 20% remaining interest to help work with the firm.  Two straight years of losses is more than likely what predicated this sale, they need money.  I guess we will see what the private equity firm does as far as managing and hopefully turning a profit a…

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27Sep2013


Jacob Reider To Lead the ONC Until New Leader Is Appointed–Visit His Page on Healthgrades Showing He’s Still Open For Business To See Patients, Along With Links to Dead Doctors, Some On Staff At Hospitals They Have Never Set Foot In And More…
Jacob Reider To Lead the ONC Until New Leader Is Appointed–Visit His Page on Healthgrades Showing He’s Still Open For Business To See Patients, Along With Links to Dead Doctors, Some On Staff At Hospitals They Have Never Set Foot In And More…

Ok I just couldn’t help myself as we have had about 3 years worth of discussion on the web on how bad and old the data is on these sites.  You can read below about the doctor being at the ONC and two years at Allscripts prior to that.  How often does Healthgrades  update their information?  It’s jus…

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27Sep2013


CEO, Vice President and Law firm Representing Tuomey Hospital Resign In South Carolina  As Feds Point Blame At CEO and Board, DOJ Finds Hospital Guilty Of Fraud With Violating Stark Law & False Claims Act
CEO, Vice President and Law firm Representing Tuomey Hospital Resign In South Carolina As Feds Point Blame At CEO and Board, DOJ Finds Hospital Guilty Of Fraud With Violating Stark Law & False Claims Act

From reading this the hospital sounds like they are out of part  of the penalty box, or sort of as the full ruling is not in yet.  DOJ seeks more than $237 million from the hospital in their guilty verdict.  From what I am reading here with the resignations and the information the actions are all po…

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26Sep2013


What's Bugging Hospitals–Not Obamacare As An Entirety But Rather the 2% Loss of Reimbursement Due to Sequester and CMS Rules Lacking Better Models Along With CMS Dissolving Annual Payment Increases
What's Bugging Hospitals–Not Obamacare As An Entirety But Rather the 2% Loss of Reimbursement Due to Sequester and CMS Rules Lacking Better Models Along With CMS Dissolving Annual Payment Increases

You can read all the time about the payment models and the ups and downs of it and the re-admissions penalties are right up there.  I would think by now CMS would have some better modeling in place than what comes down the tubes as when we see all the hospitals caring for the poor getting fined, wha…

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26Sep2013


Pharmly–Website Where Verified Vendors of Prescription Drugs Interact With Verified Purchasers Placing Bids, With Vendors Accepting Orders–Finally Something Useful Out of the Start Up Files
Pharmly–Website Where Verified Vendors of Prescription Drugs Interact With Verified Purchasers Placing Bids, With Vendors Accepting Orders–Finally Something Useful Out of the Start Up Files

This looks good and I have seen this concept before a few years ago where patients put there “surgical” procedures out for bid and that didn’t work but it was also an entirely different need to be filled.  With drug shortages this could open doors for hospitals as an example look for for drugs and p…

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26Sep2013


Jon Stewart Discusses “Little Paper Senator Cruz”–Yet More Startling Proof For the Need to Restore the Tool Congress Needs–The Office of Technology Assessment
Jon Stewart Discusses “Little Paper Senator Cruz”–Yet More Startling Proof For the Need to Restore the Tool Congress Needs–The Office of Technology Assessment

Ok Senator Cruz took the trophy away from John McCain being the “poster child” for restoring this valuable tool for Congress.  Like Stewart says Congress can’t design anything and I can go back in my archives where I suggested they take a look at IBM Watson to help them model, private industry does …

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26Sep2013


Meaningful Use And Patient Portals–Advertising and Data Selling With 3rd Party Apps Software Impact Consumer Engagement and Furthermore Makes It More Confusing to the Patient-Non Data Selling Portal Services are Winning..
Meaningful Use And Patient Portals–Advertising and Data Selling With 3rd Party Apps Software Impact Consumer Engagement and Furthermore Makes It More Confusing to the Patient-Non Data Selling Portal Services are Winning..

Talk about confusing the patient and at the same time hammering on Doctors and Hospitals to get 5% of the patients to access their medical records on a portal that contains advertisements and/or endorsements of data selling 3rd parties can be an issue, so “what the heck is in that portal”… We all k…

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26Sep2013


Johnson and Johnson Wants to Replace Anesthesiologists With Robots for Low Risk Procedures Such As Colonoscopies–Getting Closer To Becoming One of the “Evil Companies”
Johnson and Johnson Wants to Replace Anesthesiologists With Robots for Low Risk Procedures Such As Colonoscopies–Getting Closer To Becoming One of the “Evil Companies”

Johnson and Johnson is about become one of the “evil” companies with the new device to replace anesthesiologists and you know what, their savings don’t amount to beans as far as the over all picture of what is spent on healthcare.  Back in 2008 I wrote about the McSleepy machine in Canada but it was…

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25Sep2013


Prostate Cancer Foundation Announces Availability of  3 Marker Urine Test For Prostate Cancer, More Specific Than PSA Test Alone
Prostate Cancer Foundation Announces Availability of 3 Marker Urine Test For Prostate Cancer, More Specific Than PSA Test Alone

The MiPS test as you can read in the press release combines the best of two worlds for greater accuracy and as stated will save a lot men having to go through the dreaded biopsy procedure if the doctor can determine if the tumor is low or a high risk.  Nobody like a biopsy and thus any tests with an…

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25Sep2013


Stryker Pays $1.65 Billion for Mako Surgical, Knee and Hip Surgical Robot
Stryker Pays $1.65 Billion for Mako Surgical, Knee and Hip Surgical Robot

The technology as I said back I 2009 is like having GPS for your knee surgery to increase the levels of accuracy.  This is what makes robotic surgery popular of course for doctors and patients to cut down on errors and getting precise placement.  It’s also much easier on the patient when it comes to…

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25Sep2013


Wellness Questionnaires Coming Under Scrutiny, Federal Lawmaker Wants Rules–Many Wellness Programs Are Subsidiaries of Health Insurance Companies and Most Mine Data For Sale
Wellness Questionnaires Coming Under Scrutiny, Federal Lawmaker Wants Rules–Many Wellness Programs Are Subsidiaries of Health Insurance Companies and Most Mine Data For Sale

I did a quick trip through my archives and came up with a few examples of insurers owning and buying wellness companies and there’s lot more than I have listed here.  I thought this was good to actually see a few of them.    UnitedHealth Buys Another Wellness Company – Biometric Monitoring For Dat…

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25Sep2013
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