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Medical Quack Gone Broke–Independent Bloggers Just Can’t Make It Anymore…
It’s been 7 years and this blog is like attached to me for the most part and I have given this some real thought here with what I produce with my “views” like everyone else’s that’s on the web and again small independent bloggers can no longer compete. I get asked all the time to do interviews and …
CVS Settles Patent Dispute With Walgreens on Mobile Prescription Apps “CVS Wrote New Software”…
A while back Walgreens filed case against Walgreens and Rite Aid on the patent violation and it’s been settled. In reading this article all seemed to have known about the patent but didn’t care if I’m reading this correctly. Walgreens Suing CVS, Rite Aid, Wants License and IP Damage Reimbursement…
Insurance Carrier Stock Buy Backs Continue to Rise While Consumers Are Finding It Harder to Afford Some Policies and Care With Dealing With High Deductibles And Narrow Networks…
Stock buy backs are up for 3 of the major insurers. The purpose of a stock buy back to increase the value of the stock, since there’s less out there after the fact and basically embellish the officers of the company with a little more money. Your premiums help finance this action as well as the mo…
Professor Stephen Hawking Who Depends on Technology States That Artificial Intelligence Has A Big Danger In Store for Future Human Existence, His Opinion Joining the Ranks of Larry Ellison and Elon Musk…
He uses a speech synthesizer so he can talk to us and talks about why he kept the original voice and now it’s his trademark. He can’t speak without it. He was one of the first people to be connected to the internet. He has his debilitating disease and this is the only way he can function today. …
Dignity Health Gets a Temporary Reprieve on Pension Plan Lawsuit–Employees Claim As Being Under Funded
This not unusual today as employees are watching pension funds closely and with what has been happening all over the US with pension funds, they should. IN this case the debate is over whether or not the pension fund is exempt from federal pension rules as well. Of course it would take a lot of re…
Maybe Time to Join Mayor De Blasio, Senator Schumer and Several Celebrities With Going Back to An Flip Phone For the Sake of Privacy?
I thought this was pretty funny and who knows I could entertain this idea as well. I might get more done. We all know privacy is being lost by the day and the data sellers are taking it away for profit and don’t care who’s dignity they kill, just make that money selling that data. It’s the last l…
Sharing “For The Good” All But Disappears as “Sharing For the Good Money” Is Taking Over–NHS To Continue Selling Patient Records to Health Insurers As Patient Privacy and Dignity Suffer Another Loss…
It sounds like the NHS has some of the same issues we have in the US, a lot of “Dupers” that have no clue on how data mechanics logic works from reading this article. You have to realize today that an insurance company is not just one function, they do a lot of different things to include data sell…
Computer Scientist, Jaron Lanier Explains How Big Data Is Used to Limit Our Freedom–The Value of Your Personal Data…
He discusses the suffering of wealth distribution, recoveries that don’t have jobs included to start out. The internet is not helping but rather is hurting. We have not seen an explosion of wealth, but rather more a seeking of attention, and he specifically talks about the media being affected by …
What’s Going On With the Media–Journalism Interviewing Data Bases, People And Journo Bot Comes In To Play…
Kenneth Cukier from the Economist explains in this 15 minute video how the face of journalism is changing and as readers we don’t all of it, but it’s good to be aware and understand what they are working with today. He states sure we need both, input from people and data. News media companies are …
Online Data Brokers Persist, Listing Consumers on Chronic Disease Mailing Lists And More–Need To License and Index All Data Sellers, Brokers, Banks, Companies, Otherwise You Don’t Have a Complete Listing of Who They Are…
As much as this is in the news, it still persists and people don’t like it, especially when it’s flawed and it really represents some sloppy data work, all to make a buck. The FTC has again asked for help from Congress. The TV station went knocking door to door and people were not happy. One Stat…
HHS Error on Enrollment Figures–Grave Layers of Distraction With Both Government and Consumers, How Easily Distraction Occurs Today Relative to Odd Perceptional Priorities Along With A Cast of Dupers In Tuck, What a Joke..
So how long are we going to be distracted and hang on to this error? For goodness sakes when you errors at such if people had any data mechanics logic they would understand that an error of such is common as the queries require a long process with analytics and there are a team of people that are …
FDA Rules to Require Restaurants, Movie Theaters, Pizza Parlors and More to Post Calorie Counts on Menus-Smart Way to Address Obesity With Education Versus Apps and Algorithms & Infographics Mapping Fat People..
We have seen obesity all over the map from the recent errors at CDC on their website to tons of people who love to make infographics to show us where all the fat people are in the US. I hate those infographics as they don’t do anything other than let the creator say “look what a pretty infographics…
CMS Gives Hospitals an Extra 30 Days to Complete Meaningful Use Reporting for 2014
Penalties will apply for those who do not submit their qualifying data and this also covered the clinical quality measure submissions. Again this gives a little breathing room for now but there’s other issues that need work and follow up as the entire process, much like everything else in the world…
Training Prisoners to Code At San Quentin–What A Great Way to Train Future Hackers…
Ok so hopefully the title got your attention here as that’s what it was designed to do. No this is not all bad as they need something to do that’s constructive and right now the entire US thinks everyone needs to code, code, code. I don’t agree with that but we do need a much larger base of prog…
Many States Trying To Figure Out Where to Get the Money to Keep Insurance Exchanges Open, While the GOP Wants the Money Back Already Spent?
Yes it’s nuts from the GOP at this point to even think about getting the money back and time move on with that idea as it won’t work. Now back on track various states are trying to figure out now that the Federal funds are going away, how to stay open. These are the states that set up their own ex…
Detroit Hospital the Victim of Identity Theft $500,000 Worth of Fake Patient Tax Returns Filed
Here we go again the tax return scheme. Last time it was in Florida with a hospital that had been hit 3 times in 2 years, all inside jobs. One More Reason to License Data Sellers–Income Tax Fraud On the Rise-Who Are You Buying Your Data From And Who’s Buying Your Data? 60Minutes Report Hundreds …
Hospital for Seniors Closed Due to Abuse of Patients…
This has to be one of the worst I have read in a while about senior abuse and a facility. One patient was shoved to the floor by a worker and had to be taken to a hospital. The last patient was moved out at the end of October. It took the facility 2 years to get regulatory qualifications to get …
Goldman Sachs Big Investor in Kensho Analytics & Will Roll Out to Selected Clients– A Siri Service for Investors
Kensho was founded in 2012, so it’s not that old and I say here it’s like a competitor of sorts to IBM Watson if you will but with a specific focus right now on investors to ask questions about the markets. The software scours the web and gives a response. The responses are customized to the type…
