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Nancy Pelosi on Obamacare And The Website “It’s Not My Responsibility” We Just Work Hard and Pass Bills, Blame Sebelius at HHS…Jon Stewart At the Daily Show
Nancy Pelosi on Obamacare And The Website “It’s Not My Responsibility” We Just Work Hard and Pass Bills, Blame Sebelius at HHS…Jon Stewart At the Daily Show

Do you have your insurance..Jon says…again it’s the same old same old…digital illiteracy…folks your jobs are changing with the need for “some” IT knowledge.  Stewart talks about the Obama’s IT guy being incompetent..well yeah just look at the current marketing campaign that targets the reading level…

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31Jan2014


Movie “HER”– Good Example On How Folks Can’t Separate And/Or Unite The Virtual With The Real World, Billionaires Are Made Out of Those Who Know How to Keep These Areas “Gray” With Creating and Maintaining The Addictive Code That Does It…
Movie “HER”– Good Example On How Folks Can’t Separate And/Or Unite The Virtual With The Real World, Billionaires Are Made Out of Those Who Know How to Keep These Areas “Gray” With Creating and Maintaining The Addictive Code That Does It…

Of course the movie is an exaggeration and is for entertainment but when you look at how this man is existing it’s not far off from what we see out there today.  We have a lot of quantitated justifications with a lot of marketing and a lot of computer code out there.  I wrote about that a couple mon…

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30Jan2014


Sanofi Sues Eli Lilly Over Drug Insulin Drug Patents –Is It A Tactic To Stall Generic Version?
Sanofi Sues Eli Lilly Over Drug Insulin Drug Patents –Is It A Tactic To Stall Generic Version?

You kind of have to ask that question as the lawsuit gives 30 months to keep a new generic product off the market, which occurs by just filing the lawsuit.  So Is Sanofi buying time here with preventing Lilly from producing a generic version of the drug Lantus?  Sanofi also has another insulin dru…

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30Jan2014


When Doctors Give Patients Money, Hospitals Pay Patient Insurance Premiums, Humans Helping Other Humans As The Attacks of the Killer Algorithms Grow Stronger Everyday While Gov Can’t or Won’t Model Or Wake Up For That Matter…
When Doctors Give Patients Money, Hospitals Pay Patient Insurance Premiums, Humans Helping Other Humans As The Attacks of the Killer Algorithms Grow Stronger Everyday While Gov Can’t or Won’t Model Or Wake Up For That Matter…

I don’t have a clue as to when buzzer’s going to go off but all the money the Health IT folks are counting on for income from Hospitals is going to reach a breaking point at some time as both patients and hospitals are looking for money.  Of course there are a few exceptions with the UPMC who hauls …

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30Jan2014


Lie Witness News–State Of The Union Address From Jimmy Kimmel Conducted “Before” The Telecast, “We Can Take A Lot Of Social Network Survey Data Content Value And Shove It” After This Great Display of Quantitated BS…
Lie Witness News–State Of The Union Address From Jimmy Kimmel Conducted “Before” The Telecast, “We Can Take A Lot Of Social Network Survey Data Content Value And Shove It” After This Great Display of Quantitated BS…

This is so funny…this was done yesterday before the broadcast…how much faith do you have in surveys?  You can can a lot of what rolls out of Social Networks based on this…sorry folks for all of you that spend your time with queries and algorithms trying to sell it:)  “Did Joe Biden embarrass himself…

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29Jan2014


WellPoint Fourth Quarter Profit Drops 68 Percent, Not All Insurance Exchange Related, Company States Policy Pricing Models For Exchanges Are Correct As The Algorithms All Come Out To Play And Run Financial Code…
WellPoint Fourth Quarter Profit Drops 68 Percent, Not All Insurance Exchange Related, Company States Policy Pricing Models For Exchanges Are Correct As The Algorithms All Come Out To Play And Run Financial Code…

Part of the report included a sell off of the eye glass business which was completed recently.  During the fourth quarter there was higher usage as many visited the doctor to take advantage of end of year services before a new year of deductibles begins and that happens everywhere just about with bo…

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29Jan2014


Former AllScripts Corporate Auditor Charged With Insider Trading, Attempting To Profit From Poor Financial Results..
Former AllScripts Corporate Auditor Charged With Insider Trading, Attempting To Profit From Poor Financial Results..

One more in the Allscripts file as the company has had their issues.  I wonder if this guy had any part in the reporting  to shareholders where they lied about their code being done with integrating another software product they purchased a couple years back that cost the CEO his job?   A couple yea…

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29Jan2014


Office of Inspector General Tells Post Office They Should Consider Offering Banking and Financial Products–Bring It On As New Affiliations With Credit Unions And Other Financial Entities Could Be On the Table For Discussion
Office of Inspector General Tells Post Office They Should Consider Offering Banking and Financial Products–Bring It On As New Affiliations With Credit Unions And Other Financial Entities Could Be On the Table For Discussion

We talk in healthcare about “rural” areas a lot and their access to healthcare, well this could also stand to help provide access to folks in rural areas to make payments easier too.  The report suggests the post office could be selling pre-paid credit cards and why not, as JP Morgan is getting out …

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29Jan2014


CCHIT Announces They Will No Longer Offer ONC Testing and Certification Services, New Focus Will Offer Direct Counsel Services and Work With HIMSS For Software and Policy Guidance
CCHIT Announces They Will No Longer Offer ONC Testing and Certification Services, New Focus Will Offer Direct Counsel Services and Work With HIMSS For Software and Policy Guidance

CCHIT was the first company that provided certification services to electronic medical records vendors and I might guess due to that fact they have certified more vendors that the others who joined in later.  This sounds like the change is not unlike what’s happening in a few other areas of Health I…

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29Jan2014


Repeal and Replace Obamacare?  Not Hardly From a Technological Standpoint As It Needs a Model-Nobody Wants to Swap Out Old Glitches For New Glitches:  Modeling, Virtual Software Worlds and More Importantly Complex IT Infrastructure Reality, Get Hip…
Repeal and Replace Obamacare? Not Hardly From a Technological Standpoint As It Needs a Model-Nobody Wants to Swap Out Old Glitches For New Glitches: Modeling, Virtual Software Worlds and More Importantly Complex IT Infrastructure Reality, Get Hip…

Ok so had everyone had enough of Healthcare.Gov and glitches?  You want some new glitches to add on?  I’m talking flat out reality here with the technology side..have you watched how long it has taken to model and build the ACA with the website being a huge part of it?  Did you notice it was not rea…

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28Jan2014


Aetna Completes $200 Million Dollar Cayman Island Re-Insurance Multi Year Protection Bond Deal
Aetna Completes $200 Million Dollar Cayman Island Re-Insurance Multi Year Protection Bond Deal

Aetna has had other re-insurance agreements with the same organization over the last few years.  It’s kind of an interesting re-insurance program and it’s with same company as before.  Vitality Re V Limited is a Cayman Island domiciled insurance company.  This is an insurance linked security.  Thi…

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28Jan2014


Hospitals Feeling The ACA Crunch In California As Financially Strapped Daughters of Charity Health System Put Six Hospitals Up For Sale
Hospitals Feeling The ACA Crunch In California As Financially Strapped Daughters of Charity Health System Put Six Hospitals Up For Sale

It is strange when you look at how medical money got re-distributed as well as on Wall Street.  Different hospital systems had different models and let’s face it Kaiser was ahead of the game as for years they have had both care and insurance under one umbrella and this the model that others are tryi…

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28Jan2014


Spike In Flu Creating Shortage With IV Saline Solutions In Hospitals Across the US
Spike In Flu Creating Shortage With IV Saline Solutions In Hospitals Across the US

There are 3 manufacturers in the US and they are beefing up production and the FDA is looking for alternatives overseas if needed.  Saline solutions are of course heavily used in hospitals and is like a staple.  It is possible for hospital pharmacists to compound sodium chloride IV solutions using…

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28Jan2014


Emotion Labeling Software to Assist Autistic Patients Turns Into Facial Expression Algorithmic Program Wanted by Marketers to Make Money, Face Coding The Next Invasion Of Your Privacy As Marketers Have No Limits On How They Want To Obtain Anything Measurable for Quantitated Engagement Stats…
Emotion Labeling Software to Assist Autistic Patients Turns Into Facial Expression Algorithmic Program Wanted by Marketers to Make Money, Face Coding The Next Invasion Of Your Privacy As Marketers Have No Limits On How They Want To Obtain Anything Measurable for Quantitated Engagement Stats…

This article discussed a few different software companies jumping in here but the first one Affdex was no developed to be one of those and folks in marketing wanted it so spun off another company.  Now we have this emerging into to the field of marketing.  Next time you go for an interview, get a Ph…

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27Jan2014


Not Only Is It Time to Hold Banks and Corporations Accountable, But Rather Hold Their CEOs, Math Model Creations and Proprietary Computer Code Accountable As Well…
Not Only Is It Time to Hold Banks and Corporations Accountable, But Rather Hold Their CEOs, Math Model Creations and Proprietary Computer Code Accountable As Well…

This week you didn’t have to look much further than J P Morgan to see what holding banks accountable does, well Jamie Dimon, CEO of J P Morgan gets a big raise. Did he tell shareholders he’s got some new models to roll out that will ensure profits?   Is that any shape or form of accountability?  It …

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27Jan2014
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