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Sale of Leukemia Drug Halted Due to Substantial Number of Blood Clots and Heart Disease
Sale of Leukemia Drug Halted Due to Substantial Number of Blood Clots and Heart Disease

The drug was only approved a year ago so the numbers of people with clots and other issues arose quickly.  A few people died after only taking the drug for a couple of weeks and many had no risk factors with heart disease.  The side effects were much worse than imagined and the FDA will research to …

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31Oct2013


Food Stamps To Be Cut By $5 Billion- November 1st, Millions of Americans Will Face Benefit Cuts–Farm Bills Pending With Maybe More Cuts
Food Stamps To Be Cut By $5 Billion- November 1st, Millions of Americans Will Face Benefit Cuts–Farm Bills Pending With Maybe More Cuts

Below is an image that has some statistics on those who are on Food Stamps, 1 in 7 households and many have children and of course seniors make up a large group as well.  Food banks are already preparing to help where they can with the upcoming shortage and many of those centers are already overwhel…

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31Oct2013


Congressman Issa Issues Subpoena to HHS to Obtain Documents Related to Website Project And What Role QSSI Played All The Way Around As A Contractor On the Project
Congressman Issa Issues Subpoena to HHS to Obtain Documents Related to Website Project And What Role QSSI Played All The Way Around As A Contractor On the Project

I’m using a political video here as it does contain some good points but in my post I’m going to try and separate reality of complex data systems and the politics.  Some like to believe in magic and some do math, I prefer the latter as it’s not just a “perception” it is the reality of what is happen…

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31Oct2013


One Good Reason to Fix the Sequester as Hospitals and Providers Are Ready to File Lawsuits Against Insurers Passing Back 2% Sequester Cut-HHS and CMS Have Some Real “Perception” Issues And Can’t Model Worth A Darn..
One Good Reason to Fix the Sequester as Hospitals and Providers Are Ready to File Lawsuits Against Insurers Passing Back 2% Sequester Cut-HHS and CMS Have Some Real “Perception” Issues And Can’t Model Worth A Darn..

The sequester if you don’t remember, started in April and since that time doctors and hospitals are getting paid 2% less from Medicare.  For one doctor’s office that may not sound like a big sum of money but for a hospital it is big.  So keep that in mind that all hospitals are getting paid 2% less …

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30Oct2013


Mexican Billionaire and Philanthropist Carlos Slim Helú Gives $74 Million Dollar Gift the Broad Institute For Genomic Research
Mexican Billionaire and Philanthropist Carlos Slim Helú Gives $74 Million Dollar Gift the Broad Institute For Genomic Research

If you read the news of late, Mexico has been stated as raising to the number one spot with obesity ahead of the United States.  Along with obesity comes diabetes and wanting to further genetic research and this was one example he used to explain why he was donating the money.  He also stated that g…

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30Oct2013


Saturday Night Live–Does Healthcare.Gov Sebelius Style..
Saturday Night Live–Does Healthcare.Gov Sebelius Style..

This is funny and in case you missed it.  Blue Cross Blue Balls…Be sure to like us on Facebook, yes the real Sebelius is stuck on Facebook contests more than once…. Here’s a couple related posts… India Technology To Fix US Healthcare.Gov Website Now And Has Assumed The Lead Project Manager and Int…

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28Oct2013


Provisions of Affordable Care (Complexities) Act to Help Eliminate “Under-Insuring” Ends Up With Insurance Companies Cancelling Many Policies, Most Offering Replacements And Conversions and Some Not, What’s Next…
Provisions of Affordable Care (Complexities) Act to Help Eliminate “Under-Insuring” Ends Up With Insurance Companies Cancelling Many Policies, Most Offering Replacements And Conversions and Some Not, What’s Next…

How many bare bones policies are there out there, a lot.  Right now all are not too happy with their policies being cancelled and most do not mind as long as they are offered something comparable along with affordable payments.  That has not been the case though for all and it’s the automated algori…

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28Oct2013


Woman in Tennessee Infected With Injection From New England Compounding Company Meningitis Case Faces Bills and Collections From the Same Hospital That Gave Her the Injection…This Needs a Fix
Woman in Tennessee Infected With Injection From New England Compounding Company Meningitis Case Faces Bills and Collections From the Same Hospital That Gave Her the Injection…This Needs a Fix

The story goes back to October of 2012, a year and the woman has permanent damage but at least she survived where many did not.  She has gone through months of treatment and the stress from the bills is mounting and she has gone through her life’s savings!  The patient said in an interview, they mad…

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28Oct2013


Amongst Discussion For More Regulation Over Hydrocodone FDA Approves First Pure Non-Combination Extended Use Hydrocodone  Drug–Zohydro ER
Amongst Discussion For More Regulation Over Hydrocodone FDA Approves First Pure Non-Combination Extended Use Hydrocodone Drug–Zohydro ER

This is interesting since we have one panel at the FDA wanting more regulation on Vicodin, the brand name for the combination drug that has been on the prescription market for years.  the drug belongs to a class of drugs called opiates or opioids because they are chemically similar to opium. Morphin…

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28Oct2013


Oracle Buys BigMachines Sales Order Automation Systems-Already Integrated With Oracle And Others For Single Sign On To Quote, Calculate and Display Complex Pricing With Multiple Parameters
Oracle Buys BigMachines Sales Order Automation Systems-Already Integrated With Oracle And Others For Single Sign On To Quote, Calculate and Display Complex Pricing With Multiple Parameters

Sorry I have to say this but when I read I immediately thought about health insurance exchanges as they are already using Oracle Access and ID as one of the main stream functionalities of the entire project.  Right now QSSI has created the Federal Hub and with what technologies we don’t know but thi…

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27Oct2013


India Technology To Fix US Healthcare.Gov Website Now And Has Assumed The Lead Project Manager and Integrator Role, QSSI Listed As Indian Domiciled With United Healthcare SEC Filings
India Technology To Fix US Healthcare.Gov Website Now And Has Assumed The Lead Project Manager and Integrator Role, QSSI Listed As Indian Domiciled With United Healthcare SEC Filings

One has to wonder how much of the code for the website was written overseas and with government contractors we know that purchasing commercial software is not always a pre-requisite as the contractors won’t make as much money if they integrate off the shelf software into an entire project solution, …

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26Oct2013


FDA Approves Nonin BlueTooth Smart Finger Model Pulse Oximeter
FDA Approves Nonin BlueTooth Smart Finger Model Pulse Oximeter

This is a professional product it appears but I could be wrong, the company Nonin has both and as we have learned with a few other products, a lot of the time the difference may be the software application or the physical branding of the product.  Back in 2008 I made a blog post about one of their f…

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26Oct2013


FDA Finally Gives Approval To Abbott MitraClip–Has Been Approved for Use In Europe Since 2008 To Help Leaky Heart Valves
FDA Finally Gives Approval To Abbott MitraClip–Has Been Approved for Use In Europe Since 2008 To Help Leaky Heart Valves

In March this year the FDA panel recommended against the device stating there was not enough evidence to show safety.  The device works to fix leaky heart valves in patients who are not candidates for surgery to replace a heart valve.  30 other countries outside the US have been using the device to …

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26Oct2013


Hospital In Wyoming Says They Are Too Poor To Handle ICD Coding Changes Next Year–Don’t Have A Big Enough Bankroll To Cover Transition Period With Reimbursements–Would Need To Get A Bigger Line of Credit If They Can
Hospital In Wyoming Says They Are Too Poor To Handle ICD Coding Changes Next Year–Don’t Have A Big Enough Bankroll To Cover Transition Period With Reimbursements–Would Need To Get A Bigger Line of Credit If They Can

At first this might sound odd but when you read below the recommendations are to have $5 million in the bank during the transition as with all new data systems it takes a while to transition over and ICD Coding will impact everything from medical records, to insurance claims to government reports an…

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26Oct2013


Update on D.r Afridi, Who Helped US Capture Bin Laden, Pakistani Premier Pledges to Reconsider Case As The Doctor Is Still Incarcerated
Update on D.r Afridi, Who Helped US Capture Bin Laden, Pakistani Premier Pledges to Reconsider Case As The Doctor Is Still Incarcerated

If you go to the bottom of my blog after the posts you may have already seen the campaign for the doctor and if not you can find out more information here on how to get involved at the Free Dr. Afridi website. Doctor Who Helped US Find Bin Laden Sits Jailed in Pakistan–Will Zero Dark Thirty Nomina…

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26Oct2013


Dendreon, Drug Maker For Provenge Prostate Cancer Drug Is Seeking A Buyer
Dendreon, Drug Maker For Provenge Prostate Cancer Drug Is Seeking A Buyer

Just a few years ago this company was quite a ride on the investment circle and not short of being a soap opera as well.  The company has been burning through money and reducing jobs for a while now, a far cry from where the company was when their new treatment technology first appeared.  The drug i…

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26Oct2013


Not To Be Outdone by Walgreens In the Data Selling Business, CVS Pushing a New “My Weekly Ad”, Former White House Healthcare Czar Nancy DeParle Now Sits On Their Board, Discloses Award of 562 Shares..
Not To Be Outdone by Walgreens In the Data Selling Business, CVS Pushing a New “My Weekly Ad”, Former White House Healthcare Czar Nancy DeParle Now Sits On Their Board, Discloses Award of 562 Shares..

Here we go, more behavioral analytics when they look at what you buy so they can personalize it, but remember they sell that data too and prescription sales can be linked to the “ID” that does not contain your name.  Is there anyway to escape.  This is big business profits with Walgreens making abou…

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25Oct2013


My eMHR–An ONC-ATB and HIPAA Certified Personal Health Record Announces First “Patient Owned/Managed” Interoperable PHR, But Don’t Expect Any Real Privacy Here…
My eMHR–An ONC-ATB and HIPAA Certified Personal Health Record Announces First “Patient Owned/Managed” Interoperable PHR, But Don’t Expect Any Real Privacy Here…

If you have not seen this one, here’s one more PHR and this one claims to be the only one approved by the ONC. When you read through it it sounds like we have a freestanding or a doctor prescribed PHR program here.  I do have to say their privacy statement is a little easier to read as it’s in a cha…

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25Oct2013


Serco CEO Resigns in Midst of UK Government Fraud Investigation, US CEO Assigned Responsibilities, Company Is Holder of One the HHS Health Insurance Exchange Contingency Contracts
Serco CEO Resigns in Midst of UK Government Fraud Investigation, US CEO Assigned Responsibilities, Company Is Holder of One the HHS Health Insurance Exchange Contingency Contracts

In July Serco in the US was given a contract from HHS to set up the warehousing operation to handle applications for Health insurance.  Their corporate offices are located in the UK and this is where the CEO is stepping down.  The link below tells about what they do as far as the company’s broad spe…

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25Oct2013


Verizon Adds Health Management Platform For Remote Patient Monitoring–Converged Health Management
Verizon Adds Health Management Platform For Remote Patient Monitoring–Converged Health Management

This looks from the wording that it is both a clinical and a consumer platform as when you watch the video you do see some consumer mHealth devices. Not too long ago Verizon announced their Secure Messaging and email service for doctors and hospitals.  I know, it’s hard to keep it all straight at ti…

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25Oct2013
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