I have been following this one along for a couple years now and great to see the approval here.
The system works with 
a pair of eyeglasses aiding the process, but gee, what’s a pair of glasses when you can’t see at all.
The glasses have a transmitter that sends that information wirelessly to a receiver attached to the surface of the eye.
After than happens there’s a tiny cable to an electrode array implanted in the retina, stimulating it to emit electrical pulses. The pulses trigger signals in the retina that travel through the optic nerve to the brain, which perceives patterns of light and dark spots that correspond to the electrodes stimulated. In May of 2011 the device was approved in Europe.
Argus II “Artificial Retina” Wins European Approval
"Bionic" eye restores vision after for a 73 year old man after 30 Years of no sight
This is great to see what partial sight has added and the video explains the surgical process needed to use the device. So far it only sees black and white but this is great compared to zero sight. BD
Come on folks bring something to the table or some data. We have same problem with studies out all over the web that won’t give you the data either to verify models. NISS and I have discussions over some of the material they research, study with no data meant in one case over a million available models. Remember Accretive, a 3rd party that even went to far as to show Wall Street executives actual patient files and got busted when they lost their notebook in addition to a few other non ethical activities. See what I keep saying, having folks around with some background in coding, health IT helps a lot so when news comes out, those folks know where to go look, better than a “guessing perception”. 
make the documentation easier. Sure there’s cheaters everywhere but most are not so let’s go after those guys and cut out the blanket accusations. Just because one doesn’t understand the mechanics of an EHR, ask first. Here’s your most common area right here with the 99213 for ambulatory and you can see pre-audits are coming on those. Geez when I integrated my program with a billing program I literally had a visual of a super bill screen they could use and put in their ICD9 codes and it went right to the billing software and created a claim. Back a few years ago the visual of a super bill helped in the move to electronic records as it was something all were familiar with seeing. Today you still see it but it’s not needed as another combined screen makes it more efficient. 
the doctor being able to chart and document versus having a paper chart. That fear of going beyond a 99213 is real and many doctors would not bill for their actual time for the fact that it would stall and delay claims getting paid. There’s more than me that will tell you that, I heard it plenty of times and again part of the benefits of an EHR is the ability to actually bill for the real time spent and have the needed documentation. There’s nothing that a practice hates worse than having claims stalled as now you go into gosh knows how long before it may get paid. 
contractors that are subsidiaries of insurance companies so is there an incentive to watch for this? It’s just a question worth pondering as insurers when they do their own might be watching the pennies a little closer but to cut the amount of claims and bills down when they get paid for processing might take a little money out of the over all till? 
develop and manufacture generic drugs. The actors in the videos were for hire and didn’t have any part of the fraud scheme. I guess the only thing we can say here is to watch who you endorse. The stocks traded over the counter so no exchange representation there as if one is trying to hide I guess that is part of the game. 
Or this one has a new type of screens, have we all seen that out there? Software is eating up the Health IT business for sure. I’m sure there’s a few that don’t agree with that statement either. When you understand the mechanics, the time elements needed to create software, someone like me who’s been on that side too will never share the same opinion as users. We do understand the users and most software programmers and developers work hard to make sure it works for the users, but there are certain parameters we have to operate within too so it’s not always Burger King where you can have it “exactly” your way. 
tell you I’m much less of that today as I have to have a life too:) Now we have yet another new item to deal with when it comes to software, you want to use our software, sign up here for our new Hold Harmless agreement….we don’t exactly know what it’s going to do, but it’s good stuff, but don’t come back and sue us if it’s not what you think it is (grin). This again makes the statement on complexities today as developers can’t guarantee like we used to. 
using analytics with humans came up with a good program to help reduce re-admissions, so get all hospitals a grant and move on it…but again on the other side there are the Algo Duped out there that sill think “the algorithm fairy” still exists to have one stop “math” fix..doesn’t work that way. Over the years one sits back and watches some nonsense on what is important and I go back to that silly Facebook contest when we have other issues that are more complex and relay directly to getting care to patients. 
I think this is still why the VC model (bigger dollars invested here) will still prevail as you are getting more than throwing it against the wall to see if it sticks:) Some call that innovation but I don’t always think so just based on what I see. The losers, “ones that don’t create a stand alone venture” maybe wrote some good code and insurance and other entities are there as sponsors to buy it up. So now what, the developer moves on to yet another accelerator? Those doing this on the side will tire quickly and thus you end up with others participating who are trying to put food on the table too. 
economists use were created by Quants and developers who know the mechanics of what software can do. So in essence their abilities are only as good as the tools created for them to use and the control and algorithms that run today and power that goes along with the code running on servers 24/7 is all created by folks with talent and math beyond their wildest dreams, and for most part nobody’s out there keeping score on accuracy when the dollar takes over. 
most of the big decisions come around acquisitions from what I have seen, which many have been in the Health IT business. WellPoint is number two a far as size compared to United Healthcare who has such a whopping big group of companies they own, it’s hard for others to compete in some areas. I have posted quite a few articles with the two of them duking it out over contracts in various states. Also the Blue Cross group has the upcoming Tri-Care contract loss which was highly disputed and Untied ended up suing to get the contract after a big effort by Tri-Care employees and the Blue Cross subsidiary trying to keep it. 
every day life states the article. Too bad he can’t get the Speaker of the House in a couple of classes:) If he inspired Marissa Mayer back in the early 90s, he’s been around for a while. The doctor lectures around the country at National Youth Science Foundations and says he feels honored that he had an impact on Marissa’s education choices. BD 
patrol programs. The hospitals have gone to the dogs. They can sniff out drugs or help in potentially violent situations. The dogs don’t understand English for commands and are imported from Europe where they have under gone training. The go strolling through the ERs and they are 99% a presence deterrent just being present is enough. Dutch, German or Czech are the languages they understand. While working and on duty, the dogs must be muzzled. BD 
looking at analyzing electronic medical records. This is how it works with the University of Maryland and Oracle gave the University a gift as the University also relies on funding from the NIH. We talk a lot about big data and finding missing jewels and here’s one solution. 
for doctors and patients help reach a diagnosis solution. We always hear e-Patient Dave talk about wanting his data and this is certainly a way to gain patient involvement in their care, the visuals help a lot. Money to fund this from Oracle has been very helpful here too as you hear in the video. I do enjoy listening to the woman who builds data bases and of course she’s key to how this is developed and works. 
solution to compete with IBM Watson? I think so as about 3 years ago he said he wanted to be T.J. Watson:) You can hear what he said 3 years ago (video below) and he’s right on target with the Sun Acquisition and combining hardware and software. Now if you want to move 3 years forward video at the link below. We want to beat IBM, that’s our goal. The video below was before he made his one infamous tweet. BD 
My first thoughts until I listened further was I hope this is the medical school (grin), and of course it was not. You have to love this though as everything was open for research and some we too lazy to research, oh well. So Jon has his day here with his comments and you know what the class was? This is the funniest part of the video yet: 
Below is an embedded list of the MMR Global patents for reference from a prior post for look up. In addition outside of the US, the 
services to consumers and healthcare providers, as well as employers and health plans through both their private and public portals. The public portal, such as the one accessible at 
moved to the web but your number one client is the user, the doctor. With integration I can see how some of this was los in the translation and there have been numerous articles on the web on how this was lost beside me talking about it. I really liked the idea of the Common User Interface, so when you talk about the #1 client, is it not a good idea to have the same or similar interface so doctors can feel at ease and immediately recognize work flows screens anywhere they go? 
It was kind of funny though when I pointed the patient/consumers over to this site as they scratched their heads too as here they got to see “their” idea too, just sitting there so they too recognized we had a little shortage in the collaboration department. I ran around HIMSS in 2008 with the demo on a tablet and it was funny as all the EHR vendors were asking me “who’s system is that”, of course nobody wanting to be missing anything there with a potential new system, was funny:) So when it come to safely on medical records, most vendor have done their homework as far as design, etc. Again the only ones who may have lost some focus here as I see it are the ones owned by insurance companies as money and algorithms for profit is what drives their business. 
of a dent here to help the hospital out. This is the home of Intel, EMC and bunch of others and soon the 49ers. The article says the uptick in cost was due to a large number of elderly (remember tech folks you’ll get there too one day:) and disabled patients. Due to that fact doctors are being paid a little over time. It appears there was a planned targeted savings here of $11 million that was figured into a budget. Medi-Cal care went up quite a bit. 
$26 million more than planned, that would help and leave $ 2 million in change, right? I realize this is a public hospital that offers residency programs and would think with all the money rolling around Silicon Valley that this hospital should be ok, right? The website also says it has VIP suites. BD 
disconnect between the end user and the developers. This is not be design but rather the complex world we live in today and all goes back to perception. Developers and end users don’t share the same perception all the time and both learn from each other too. So is this a trend in healthcare software? Could be. 
yet a bit diversity out there with medical record systems as now unless a full on enterprise EHR is in place you could yet have more EHR systems in the same hospital. A few years ago United bought Picis which is an entire analytics system. You find them also in use at the VA, so again more portion to where United gets a cut of the healthcare revenue out there via a subsidiary.
still impose enterprise EHRs on their EDs because it's simpler to have a single integrated system. 
we are not talking moving anything from HIPAA and HHS, rather integrating like we do with medical records so complete access of the provisions of various area of the law as relates to privacy is easily available and to ensure that HIPAA laws work in unison with other laws and we don’t have contradictions and unintended consequences that could have been avoided. This might give some members of Congress fits of frustration as it would require better law modeling and not everyone coming in with their own set of numbers. We need laws that understands IT infrastructure that monitors privacy and data selling together. 
They made a mistake and put tickets on sale early and when customers who were ready to buy on the date they published as available, tickets were all gone as they put them on sale by mistake ahead of the date. All who were ready to buy on the announced date were screwed and could not get tickets. The erroneous algorithms that were turned loose early screwed everyone, except those who happened to visit the website by browsing or whatever for information. 
lawmakers that prefer to waste their time on women’s health issues that remain in bliss and can’t lift a finger to learn anything about this and help consumers. They are for the most parts “non participants” when it comes to technology and so we continue to get screwed. I had my own Killer Algorithms with my car insurance, why did they list the new owner of my home I sold six months later as second drivers on my policy…Killer Algorithms mining that data with flawed query makers, where the machines erroneously filled in information they thought I had left out! Ok you big data fans, are you completely ready to rumble with growing error factors? 
of “it’s for those guys over there”…before the Attack of the Killer Algorithms get worse. The White House job council disbanded, it had the wrong focus as nothing happens until you get right down to what is rolling over servers 24/7 and climb out of that cloud of bliss, as more and more the ignorance shows. Please get a law in place binding with the appropriate IT infrastructure to regulate, license and excise tax the data sellers making billions and you know, we can do good things with that money, like fund the NIH and the FDA and keep our science research alive. 
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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
