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Kaiser Permanente Opens Retail Stores In California And Oregon Inside Malls And A Bus With Navigators to Assist Enrollment With State Exchange Programs
To help sign consumers up in coordination with the Affordable Care Act, Kaiser retail stores are appearing in northern California and one in Oregon. Malls with a lot of foot traffic is where you find them. Below is a listing of where they are in California, so far just in the northern portion of t…
Bill Gates (A Bit Unwired) The Harvard Campaign Video Interview..
This is probably one of the best off the wall interviews with Bill Gates that I have seen, and there’s plenty of humor and he discusses a bit about his personal life and how Microsoft grew from the early days. He talks a bit about Steve Jobs and Apple and how they were friendly competitors and they…
Healthcare.Gov Getting a New Web Host, Moving From Verizon to HP, Site Has No Back Up, Sign Up for Small Business Gets a Year’s Delay
As if we have not had enough changes, here’s one more in the making. From what I am reading here it appears this was “in the works” a while back and not knowing the specifics on the Verizon Terremark data center, it’s hard to comment specifically but we do know that there were issues and hosting se…
FDA Warns 23AndMe To Halt Sales Of DNA Testing Services–Update
The FDA considers the company’s service a “medical device” and therefor needs regulatory clearance. Risk assessments and safety is the grounds for the FDA letter. Cancer tests are the big concern with saliva testing. False positive results is where the FDA is looking as they state a patient could…
CVS Caremark Buys Coram Infusion Business From Apria Healthcare for Over $2 Billion
I guess it’s time to keep up with the other “big drug store chain” as a couple years ago Walgreens made a business swap to secure the Omni-Care infusion business. Nobody really pays a lot of attention to this business until something happens and that did occur with a security breach with Walgreen’s…
Violence Erupts at Texas Hospital Where Nurse Was Killed and Four Others Were Wounded
The video is a family below who witnessed the rampage as they were there taking their daughter in for surgery. The poor nurse just came around the corner to see what was happening and that’s when she was stabbed. It was not a a gun this time, he did all his damage with a knife. The nurse who wa…
Applying for Health Insurance–Using the Exchanges Versus Via Using Traditional Insurer Web Site, The Old Way–Video
This is pretty good and makes some good points for when the Healthcare.Gov site is working for you. He waits long enough and the information comes up and this was done a few weeks ago so keep that in mind. He goes through applying with a health insurance site to compare. There’s a lot of question…
Insurance Business Still Clashing With ObamaCare Relating to Policy Cancellations, Quantitative Driven Analytics and Pricing Collisions: “ACA Static Law” Versus “Non Static” Mathematical Insurance Profit Models…
The ACA was created with good intentions for all to have good health insurance and not “bare bones” types of policies as we are finding out have been sold all over the US as they were “affordable” and are a step up for sure than not having insurance. The one big item that has helped in some ways an…
Aetna Buys International British Owned International Insurance Company InterGlobal
The insurers keep growing with adding more subsidiaries and earlier this year Aetna purchased Coventry insurance. It really is getting to be difficult to see where your bottom line dollar gets spent anymore. Here’s a couple SEC pages (and here) and I don’t they are complete with listing all of th…
CEO Bob Lorsch of MyMedicalRecords.Com Uses His Company PHR Software With Stored Records And Communication Capabilities To Avoid Surgery And In Turn Gets The Proper Treatment At Hospital…
In the software business, there’s a term called “eat your own dog food” and this is exactly what Bob Lorsch did as a matter of speaking, he used his own company PHR to get the correct treatment and avoided surgery. I don’t know how many times I see people promoting software that is “good for you” a…
FDA Approves New Drug From Johnson and Johnson To Treat Hepatitis C
There are two other drugs that have FDA approval that were approved in 2011, however the new drug, Olysio is stated to require a shorter treatment time. The drug is in pill form so easy enough there. The drug is meant for those who have both had prior treatment and those who have not been treated…
Dr. Halamka O’Reilly Strata Conference–Electronic Medical Records Sharing, Insights, Meaningful Use, Patients, Apps And Processes With “People” More So Than IT
Dr. Halamka gives a very candid interview here going back to how he got started with technology and then medicine. He does set a lot of the standards in Health IT today as he’s one of those rare “finds” that has two areas of focus being an emergency care MD as well as a computer scientists. He giv…
FDA Approves Bird Flu Vaccine
This not a vaccine everyone will go out and get like a flu shot but rather an effort to have a vaccine available in the event of a pandemic should it occur. It would be available for those over 18 years of age. So far world wide there has not been a need and most bird flu cases have been in Asia. …
Accountable Care Act–Needs To Take Time Out and Re-Group, Implementing a “Static” Law With Current Day Complex Insurance, Banking and Other Daily Changing Business Intelligence Quantitative Math Models Is Becoming Impossible to Manage, One More Delay Announced
I don’t know about you but this is the conclusion I have drawn here and we are to the point of having way too many segmentations that exist in healthcare and in other places as well that are directly or indirectly affected by the new law to have much of anything make sense! Digital centric laws are…
Boston’s Children’s Hospital Holds Teenager Hostage for 9 Months & Gains Custody When Parents Questioned Diagnosis From Treating Doctors at Tufts & Other Facilities
This is one bizarre story and you can watch the video and there’s a lot of information it seems we have not seen yet. Why would the hospital basically kidnap the teenager? The girl was under treatment for one genetic disorder diagnosis and then when she was taken to Boston Children’s Hospital, ano…
Doctor Reimbursements For Patients Covered By “State Exchange Policies” Dropping Even More Doctors Below What Medicare Pays And In Some Areas Less Than Medicaid
Back in November of 2012, a year ago I reported that in California that along with doctors automatically being opted in with Blue Cross, their reimbursement was looking to be around 30% less than what they receive from a standard commercial policy. Somebody just asked me about that the other day wh…
United Invests in Another Low Income Rental Housing Project–Minnesota–$50 Million This Time
We have doctors seeing Medicare Part D patients being fired right and left but there’s still enough money around to invest in the housing market. United is the first and largest investor in the program named the Minnesota Equity Fund. With current economic conditions with banks and insurers contro…
John Boehner Finally Has Success With Enrolling at Healthcare.Gov–Having A Few Less “Magpies” In Congress Is Always Welcome With Members Being “Hands On” Using Consumer Technologies
I had some posts going back where I used the term “Magpie Healthcare” when it came to executives and members of Congress and the White House never trying for any “first hand experience” and so you can’t say John Boehner is a “magpie” anymore, he dove in there and not without the same frustrations ex…
Hypnotoad Healthcare–Bound To Be The Best Behavior Modification mHealth App To Come Along In Ages, Can Be A Great Addition for Portals Too..(Video)
You know what we have tried just about everything else and if you can’t get folks to engage then why not put Hypnotoad to work, can’t be any worse that some of what has shown up in apps. He’s an interesting character as the sound that comes along here is a recording of a turbine engine played backw…
US Congressman Gets One Year Probation Cocaine Possession In Florida, A State That Passed A Law to Drug Screen Medicaid Recipients…Should Members of Congress Be Screened?
I think we need to start drug screening Congressmen. The law by the way has not been enacted due to a judge putting it on hold. It was passed in 2011. Governor Rick Scott was hot after this bill convinced that Medicaid and Welfare recipients had too many druggies in the crowd. The state did have…
This is kind of interesting since Blue Cross of all the major carriers is participating big time with the exchanges and now wants consumers to call them direct. Yesterday thought it really got bad with HHS and CMS not being honest about all the code being written for the “financial transactions” be…
HHS/CMS Pulls An “Allscripts” Mistake–”Code’s Not Done With Healthcare.Gov”…And Did Anyone Look at the Oracle and Microsoft “Turnkey” State Health Insurance Platforms…There’s a Time and Place for Open Source And The Insurance Exchanges Are Not It Right Now..
Here we go again and now we hear “code’s not done”…well a couple years ago a medical records vendor by the name of Allscripts got into trouble with shareholders with not having their code integrated on time and were projecting sales on the the fact that they could not go forward until the code was d…
