This is still work in progress but it can take the diagnosis time 
down to a few minutes from taking a few days. So far this has only been done with mice and the next move is to bring this testing to humans. The great news is that scientists have been able to identify the footprints. Other scientists have work going in this direction too with cancer and diabetes with a breath test. This would beat having dogs diagnose, which is as close as we have come so far:) Volatile organic compounds is what is analyzed in exhaled breath. BD
Successfully identifying the chemical fingerprints of specific bacteria in the breath could lead to a breathalyser capable of detecting lung diseases such as tuberculosis.
A team from the University of Vermont was able to successfully identify strains of bacteria in the lungs of mice by analysing volatile organic compounds in exhaled breath.
"Traditional methods employed to diagnose bacterial infections of the lung require the collection of a sample that is then used to grow bacteria. The isolated colony of bacteria is then biochemically tested to classify it and to see how resistant it is to antibiotics," said co-author on the study Jane Hill, a microbiologist at the University of Vermont. "This whole process can take days for some of the common bacteria and even weeks for the causative agent for tuberculosis. Breath analysis would reduce the time-to-diagnosis to just minutes."
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-01/11/tuberculosis-breath-test
MMX® colonic delivery technology designed to result in the controlled release and distribution of budesonide throughout the length of the colon. A New Drug Application for UCERIS (budesonide) tablets 9 mg for the induction of remission of mild-to-moderate active ulcerative colitis is under review by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration with a target action date in January 2013. Ulcerative colitis is a form of inflammatory bowel disease that produces ulcerations along the lining of the colon and rectum. 
in 2011 the FDA gave approval for use for patients with neurologic conditions. Treatments can be repeated and at least 12 weeks in between injections is the recommendation. 
the FoundationOne test includes genes that the oncologist might already be testing for. After listening to the video and reading a bit on the website it makes sense as to why Bill Gates searched this one out as the company at the time was really not looking for investors actively. Bill Gates also paid for one of the tests for a friend who was being treated with chemotherapy to see if a new profile would show up and there was enough in the profile to suggest some alternative treatments, so he was sold. BD 
You have a higher risk for heart disease if you: 
medicines, won U.S. approval to sell the first skin patch to treat migraines. 
64,000 independent pharmacies that have agreed to pre-negotiated prices, 
and otherwise but when you get down to the day to day grind of wanting a one stop solution especially with analytics and business use, it’s just not there. We hear CEOs putting out press releases and other media that “we can save a trillion dollars” in healthcare which is simply not true. We can save money but it sounds like someone has meddled in some extreme non linear analytics that has not been verified. As Charlie Siefe says on models, the average consumer reaction and thoughts are something like this “it has a square root in it, I have read about it several times this week so it must be good”. CEOs do that too. 
the information on the website is set up to “dupe” you with thinking there’s value here, not. So even if the model has a square root in it, no value, this is one of those with FICO. There’s a great video at the link below with big companies on a panel discussing “value” and how to find it. 
Good scientific and other good business intelligence algorithms will continue because it makes us smarter but we will have this function of trying to determine what’s a dupe and what’s real…so here’s the next 12 step program for those that think an algorithm is a cure all without the human touch and for those that create the nonsense that clutters the good stuff:) I made this post back in August of 2010 so ahead of my time maybe? You tell me. 
It’s not that I’m so smart it’s just that people who work in the technology field get there before you do as a consumer so sometime we know a thing or two. Should we work on getting an agency started who can help verify accuracy of some of the stuff tossed our way today and should we begin looking for those that are developing a crippling addiction to cure one algorithm with another? Again these were topics from 2009 and 2010…and they still seem to have some merit for conversation you think? BD 
starting to get a little crowded here and now one more potential exchange participant. We already have quite a few websites that are not exchanges but aggregated information on buying health insurance. Now Wal-Mart says they are considering it too. If Wal-Mart wants to do this they can hop on over to Oracle and get the software platform too which is also aligned for states using it as well. As mentioned though the tax benefits would not be there as they are with using a government exchange should Wal-Mart decide to venture in. 
substantiates my campaign for licensing and excise data sellers and that has to do with using information for marketing and fundraising…well…how it the heck do we know who’s using our information…answer: License them and require a federal disclosure page and again get that excise tax in there as companies, banks, and so on make BILLIONS in profits here. 
unencrypted emails if patients want to receive their data that way. OCR said in the rule: "We do not expect covered entities to educate individuals about encryption technology and information security. If individuals are notified of the risks, and still prefer unencrypted email, the individual has the right to receive protected health information in that way, and covered entities are not responsible for unauthorized access of protected health information while in transmission to the individual based on the individual's request [or once it's delivered]." 
Genspace lab in Brooklyn (non profit) was created so novices and beginners could tinker, take classes and she humorously talks about the press and their coverage and she said worked through it, as they thought the lab was going to produce the next Frankenstein, in other words hype it up. There are more facilities like this opening all over and each have their own flavors on what they work on. She says there are points to where the amateurs and professionals need to meet as they have access to pathogens. They follow all laws and regulations and don’t work with pathogens. 
When you look and compare health insurance companies there’s not one as big as United with the “huge” daily chain of subsidiaries that keeps growing at a pretty rapid speed. Most consumers don’t see the entire package here on how health insurance companies operate and make their money, they only look and think about insurance policies, which of course is the first item to look at, but when you dig beyond the first area of business you will find a lot more. 
with the use of analytics and has for years. You can go back to the AMA lawsuit to where United short paid hospitals and doctors for 15 years and I believe the checks are either or on the way back to doctors or it is soon to happen. They made money both ways here as they also licensed the analytics data base to other major insurers so you had Blue Cross, Health Net, Cigna and more jump on the same bandwagon and they short paid as well using the United numbers. This fact in itself makes it very difficult to fully trust some of the reports and studies they create as the CEO had said many times “the shareholders will prosper” and how many of them I wonder are insured by United? It’s just a question that rambles around in my head and for this reason alone you do have to keep your eyes open as everything analytically may be as it seems. 
days, read up on the web and listen to the quarterly reports and that will give you an idea of all the various entities owned and acquired by the insurers, and again United far ahead of any of the rest of them with a huge focus on analytics and all kinds of other companies. You can use the words “subsidiary watch” on this blog and find an army of them with all carriers. You now find United with “retail” stores popping up in the US too. One executive from the company made a comment recently about what buying insurance can’t be more like a bank with tellers, and United has a bank come to think of it with over a billion on deposit from health savings accounts that allows them to make loans and conduct other types of financial investments with the money. I posted this back in 2010 and the money on deposit could have grown since then. 
records for sale to doctors, so the company is very much in the EHR business as well. CareTracker can connect to their “clearinghouse” company which used to be a division of Ingenix which now falls under the Optum name. Ingenix and their consulting services have been around for a long time and a big part of their business is selling data for profit. In addition to CareTracker there’s also Optum Insight, a non-web based EHR system. Here’s a few examples below on their electronic medical records and HIE businesses. 
company that also consults with drug and device companies here in the US to get them introduced to the FDA and consult on the entire process and you see them regularly at conventions. 
other insurers do not have with the 
You might guess where some of this comes from if you own the pharmacy benefit manager and work with various drug stores across the US as data selling is a huge profitable business today making billions in profits for all kinds of companies and I keep using the Walgreen example of 2010 where they made short of $800 million selling data only. 
The two have worked together before with United having contracts with Mayo for patients covered by employer provided insurance being able to use their facilities, which began back in 2010. This venture will be crunching data to compare outcomes with money spent. Researchers will get some benefits here in determining how various treatments work on patients, but Mayo the size they are probably have that going for them already. Mayo doesn’t have any ownership in the Optum Labs division so there’s one big hint there with how the information will be formulated and used. 
not always applicable for decision making when numbers are only crunched. It was kind of embarrassing when HHS accused doctors of “cheating” with billing and even pulled in the Attorney General on the accusation too, with nothing brought to the table and it was a lack of digital mechanical literacy that prompts such “panic” statements. This was embarrassing and it was more than just me on this blog who said so, the tech folks that see right through it just shake their heads and wonder what the heck is wrong with HHS on this one. Myself I had to sit back and remember this is the same agency that saw value with a Facebook contest and believes magical algorithms will totally solve hospital re-admissions:) 
that’s what they live for. It will also stand to fill the pipelines with their studies they put out all the time. Last time I took exception to the tone they use too on some of them with subliminal messages telling consumers in so many words that their ill health is at the root of the US Economy when it is not, Wall Street and banks did it and you can’t put the squeeze on consumers for this. There are positive ways to encourage better lifestyles rather than blame shifting and running some of the propaganda they do. 
Christmas drinking a Coke:) That’s the first thing that popped into my head and this will be interesting to see how the commercials address obesity. Myself I don’t think I could drink a regular coke anymore as “diet” has been on my agenda for so many years. According to the article the commercials are going to show healthy ways to work off the calories you drink which is around 140. For 140 calories I want something to eat and not really drink 
of this, as that is where it is really accelerated and errors are coming in because it is moving too fast. The economy is growing but not doing a lot for the consumer. One of the only ways is to give manufacturing a bigger swing and that is to balance both intangibles and tangibles as they will need the technology. 
Before this company another company, Marion Polk managed the care for the same group of patients and was the party creating contract. Willamette replace them and that is where Salem hospital came under their jurisdiction of contracts and providers. Salem was left out as far as a participating provider at this point and was paid at a lower rate.
a case with hospitals outside the city areas. What this has done is hurt hospitals in other states and they are not happy and who wouldn’t be. It became a rural hospital when it was bought by Partners Healthcare, the group that always seems to be making money and charging more at many of their facilities so one may wonder was there any influence here with making the hospital a “rural” hospital? When the pay system changed the money went up. 
funny and so true. After hearing his numbers Piers has invited Dr. Oz to come back in 6 weeks after asking Dr. Oz how long it would take to make some progress, so looks like we will get a revisit…perhaps it’s all the stress from the recent talk on his stand on guns that’s running up his blood pressure and they mention that too. Well at least the late night shows are in two cities so not too far for Dr. Oz to make TV “host” calls. Just a couple days ago we had 
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Math–This Could be a Subject for Michael Moore to Explore and Document In a Movie
Screenings Too–Killer Algorithms Part 12–Medical Billing Codes Style
Assessing Consumer Credit Scores–Attack of the Killer Algorithms Chapter 21 With Flawed Data
Duping” Society Combined With A World of Rogue Algorithms & Flawed Data Continues In Markets As Seen With Knight Capital This Week-Attack of the Killer Algorithms Chapter 36
Study Fraud With EHR Technologies, Namely Medical Records/Billing Software Used by Hospitals– HHS And SEC Continue Getting Their Non-Algorithmic Fannies Kicked–Attack of the Killer Algorithms Chapter 46
SilverScript Senior Drug Program Sanctioned by Medicare Until the Payment And Billing Algorithms are Cleaned Up-Killer Algorithms Chapter 53
