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Non Invasive Device in Clinical Trials AUM Cardiovascular System Detects Coronary Artery Disease
This has not been approved by the FDA, but it is in clinical trials. This is a pretty amazing device. CADence is the name of the device. For the trials what they are looking for are patients that already have issues to use the device to check for accuracy. The device hums and works from sound w…
CMS Says No More Delay on ICD-10, Why Doesn’t CMS Wait and Complete More Testing First Before Announcing Such
Here we go again with digital illits at the top of the helm making statements as such and anyone in technology knows there could be all kinds of glitches and issues unplanned that could pop up. It would make more sense to me that such a statement be held off until testing is done. They were not ev…
Oracle Pulls 100 Programmers From Cover Oregon Insurance Exchange - Remember They Were the Only Contractor That “Did Not” Withdraw Their Bid When the State Upped The Anny With Additional Social Services Coding Added
Here we go again as the matter of complexities comes back around again. I have been writing about this for a while but we still have way too many out there counting on those “algorithm fairies” and have not landed on earth yet to at least get an understanding on how complex systems are today. Cove…
Dr. Halamka At HIMSS - Providers Are Getting to the Breaking Point Trying To Figure Out How To Survive..He Gets A Lot of Emails…
He gets emails and lots of them. Providers are getting to the breaking point he says. Mostly what he is getting are people trying to figure out how to survive he says, IT Professionals are on the receiving end of the frustration. He’s the eternal optimist telling all they will survive. I would s…
Big Data In Farming, Back to the Data Selling Business Once Again With Concerns of Where the Data is Sold and Who Uses It To Profit, Paying for IP With the Food We Eat Today
One thing for sure is that we all need food to survive and if you read here often enough then you know I focus on the use and abuse of data, for profit and when it is used out of context and for profit. Well the same thing we see in healthcare also exists with farming. Sure we want good food and b…
Walgreens and UC San Francisco Trying New Pharmacy Model With Pharmacists Being More Involved With Patient Care and Paying More Attention to Prescriptions
This is an effort to try and help keep down re-admissions for one and the pharmacy is located on the hospital campus. It is not one of the retail clinics that Walgreens has all over the country but rather a unique drug store. As you can read pharmacists by law were given more authority with patien…
Major Insurance Company in the UK Bought 47 Million Medical Records From the NHS
The Staple Inn Actuarial Society – a major organization for UK insurers created the report on how it was able to use NHS data from a time from of 1997 to 2010 to track medical histories of patients using a DOB and post code. What do you hear about re-matching record, sure it happens all the time an…
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and MIT Co-hosting Public Workshop - Big Data Privacy-Not Possible Unless We License and Excise Tax The Sellers, The Corporate Profit Epidemic Continues to Spread
You can’t really talk about privacy without addressing the “epidemic” we have of data selling. You can’t regulate it without knowing who all the players are and as citizens of the US, we are given no clue at all other than reading the news and that only scrapes the surface. Little data figures in …
Samsung Galaxy S5 - Contains Heart Rate Hardware/Software
There’s not a lot that needs to be added here for comments..and this phone has Heart Monitor that you use your finger to get your rate. They also introduced a new watch…but will we wear it? It really is kind of funny to see the watch make another go at it as it’s been out before but consumers …
LabCorp Buys Covance’s High Complexity Genomic Laboratory In Seattle
LabCorp did not buy the company, just the lab to be clear. The services of the lab will continue to be of service to clients, so no change there. In addition Covance was stopping work on it’s non finished site in Virginia and another location in Switzerland. Seattle is the location of the lab pur…
Tenet Faces Fraud Investigation from the DOJ And Posts Loss For 4th Quarter Related to Purchase of Vanguard Health System
Buying Vanguard was a big expenditure and they bought a big chunk of debt as well. This is what accounts for the 4th quarter loss. During the first quarter in 2013 Tenet lost $88 million, so they have been up and down. Tenet Healthcare Buys Vanguard Health for $1.8 Billion Cash and Assumes $2.5…
Operation Spinal Cap-Former Owner of Orthopedic Hospital Admits He Bribed California State Senator Calderon-Hospital Closed And Sold But Still Listed on HealthGrades
State Senator Calderon sounds like he was really working it for the money. Lumber Fusion surgeries got a kick back of $15,000.00 and the list went on and on for different procedures. The state senator set up meetings and more to work on laws that would allow his efforts to continue. Pacific Hos…
CVS Flip Flops With Medical Records Choice For Minute Clinics, Selecting Epic, Did Allscripts Lose Some Potential Business? In 2012 They Were Announced As the CVS Choice
Well that didn’t last too long as the original electronic medical record used by the clinics were their own home grown EMR which was based on systems created by e-Clinical Works. So I guess they didn’t have time to convert any clinics over to Allscripts. Minute Clinics Moving to Allscripts Medica…
What Can Healthcare Learn From Aviation? Watch Your Models As The Virtual World Can Be Far Different From the Real World When It Comes to Designing And Implementing Software & Hardware
No this is not another what can doctors learn from pilots again…that has been hashed enough and the topic seems to come around when other news is slow. Remember a while back the story about the pilot that convinced the AMA for years that he was a doctor? Here’s the link below if you don’t remember…
Fitbit “Force Wristband” Recall–Device Causing Rashes
The one device named the “Force” is the product that is being recalled. You can send back your device and get your money back. The device has also been discontinued and I assume in time they may create a new model to replace. Some Fitbit Users Are Finding Out They Are Allergic To Wearables A…
Allscripts Ends Up With a Loss for 2013 of $104 Million-United Healthcare Subsidiary Ready To Step In To Be An Allscripts Implementer And Beyond…
It’s been tough for Allscripts ever since they underestimated the time to integrate the code from Eclipsys that they acquired in 2010. Basically the 4th quarter was flat and the company is receiving renewals from several clients. Integration and code rewriting has been a main stay around Allscript…
UnitedHealthGroup Buys Majority Interest of Audax, Gamification and Data Mining/Selling Platform Operation–Subsidiary Watch
This is yet another move from the Optum Subsidiary of Untied and if you visit the their pages at the SEC you will find 15 pages of subsidiary companies, everything from a bank, cheap hearing aids, to hospice for profit. Health Insurance Business Under the Radar With Tiered Subsidiaries–Where All …
“Generation Like”, the Relentless Marketing of Teenagers Online and The Money It Makes, “Fake Like Farms” and The Money Generated There As Well..(Videos)
I’m no fan of Facebook being a privacy advocate but putting these videos here to show how money is pulled out of thin air. Social networks are fine and we use them but in the last couple of years, they have become more than that and it primarily one of the reasons people can’t tell the difference b…
Supersmoker Bluetooth Electronic Cigarette With a Speakerphone That Plays Music, Will This Be Arriving At Your Local CVS Store Soon?
Ok I had to say that in the title…as marketing and what folks and corporations today is pretty nuts and so this is product so I guess with the Bluetooth connection here they want to make sure they get one of these e-cigarettes Bluetooth devices in your hands, even to just carry around as a micropho…
Senator Grassley and Kathleen Sebelius Duking It Out Over Hospitals Paying Patient Premiums–A Case of One “Who Believes In Algorithm Fairies” Talking To Another…
Here we go again with folks duking it out on wording while algorithms on servers continue to run “hog ass wild”…so yeah let’s let the hospitals go broke and not protect their interest with seeing patients who can’t afford their premiums…I swear these folks are both under the impression that algorith…
Larry Ellison, CEO Oracle, HCM Conference Keynote–”Be Careful About Virtual Relationships With Artificially Intelligent Pieces of Software That’s Smarter Than You“, It’s Really All About People”–Algo Duping and the Killer Algorithms Living Amongst Us…(Update) Video
I have been writing about this for quite a while now and recently wrote about the movie “HER” and I did not realize that it was his daughter that produced the movie. It was during the question and answer portion of Ellison’s keynote that this topic came up and I was glad to hear him address it. I…
