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...

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Monday, September 30, 2013

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...

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Monday, September 30, 2013

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 acce...

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Saturday, September 28, 2013

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 delive...

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Friday, September 27, 2013

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 th...

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Friday, September 27, 2013

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.  Y...

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Friday, September 27, 2013

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...

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Thursday, September 26, 2013

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 ...

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Thursday, September 26, 2013

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...

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Thursday, September 26, 2013

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 ...

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Thursday, September 26, 2013

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 r...

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Thursday, September 26, 2013

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 sa...

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Wednesday, September 25, 2013

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 ha...

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Wednesday, September 25, 2013

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 robot...

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Wednesday, September 25, 2013

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...

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Wednesday, September 25, 2013
 
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