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SGR Can Kicked Down the Road for Another Year With Bonus Item That Delays ICD10 Medical Coding Conversion Also For A Year, CMS Will Have More Time To Test And Debug
SGR Can Kicked Down the Road for Another Year With Bonus Item That Delays ICD10 Medical Coding Conversion Also For A Year, CMS Will Have More Time To Test And Debug

This is good news and bad news but the good news we’ll take right now as there won’t be any big administrative billing nightmares as have been experienced in the past.  After the CMS 10 day hold is when that would have kicked in and it is a mess.  So we can be happy about that and who knows when Con…

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31Mar2014


Healthcare.Gov Down For Extended Maintenance On Final Enrollment Day-Maintenance Algorithms Need Their Time As Complexities With IT Infrastructure Continue to Torment Deadlines Created By Humans…
Healthcare.Gov Down For Extended Maintenance On Final Enrollment Day-Maintenance Algorithms Need Their Time As Complexities With IT Infrastructure Continue to Torment Deadlines Created By Humans…

Not the best time for extended maintenance to hit but what do you do? This is part of every major web service around but the timing could not be worse.  Hopefully it runs as needed and nothing out of the ordinary occurs to delay it even further.  I’ll say one thing, the government sure has learned …

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31Mar2014


“Hospital Inequality” - Yet One More Growing Issue With Healthcare In the US..
“Hospital Inequality” - Yet One More Growing Issue With Healthcare In the US..

Maybe this is something worth discussing as it certainly exists out there and since I cover many areas of healthcare, I’m seeing more and more of this with one hospital system doing very well, like UPMC, a non profit with a billion a year in excess revenue (that is profit talk for non profits) and t…

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30Mar2014


North Adams Hospital In Massachusetts Closes Abruptly on Friday, Out Of Money & Court Order To Stay Open Seems To Be Trumped By Lack of Money & Plan To Save The Hospital
North Adams Hospital In Massachusetts Closes Abruptly on Friday, Out Of Money & Court Order To Stay Open Seems To Be Trumped By Lack of Money & Plan To Save The Hospital

The hospital had emerged from bankruptcy a couple years ago and it appears that money could not be made here due to the fact that a big percentage of the payments come from Medicare.  The compensates the hospital with 66 cents for every dollar spent so there’s the gap.  The hospital relies on Medica…

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29Mar2014


Maryland Ready to Drop the “Crappy Code” And Start All Over With Another Contractor For Their State Health Exchange, Sounds Like Even QSSI Doesn’t Want To Mess With It Either..
Maryland Ready to Drop the “Crappy Code” And Start All Over With Another Contractor For Their State Health Exchange, Sounds Like Even QSSI Doesn’t Want To Mess With It Either..

Sometimes that happens to where no matter what you do with an engineered system, if too much of of the coding uses doesn’t work well then you could be wasting a lot of time trying to fix it.  Sometimes it may be just a module that you can re-write and replace to work with the other modules but from …

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29Mar2014


Virtual Worlds, Real World We Have A Problem And It’s A Big One With A Lot of Gray Areas Finding Where The Defining Lines Exist, Confusing Many With A Lot of Weird Values And Strange Perceptions…
Virtual Worlds, Real World We Have A Problem And It’s A Big One With A Lot of Gray Areas Finding Where The Defining Lines Exist, Confusing Many With A Lot of Weird Values And Strange Perceptions…

This unwelcomed phenomena that exists today…”The Grays”…. Well somebody had to say it and sure we are experiencing the return of virtual reality which there’s nothing wrong with it for gaming or viewing let’s say a movie or just a more vivid experience.  When virtual reality first came out, well i…

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28Mar2014


Over 10,000 In North Carolina Had to Wait For Over 3 Months To Receive Food Stamps,  You Guessed It, Computer Glitch Again And People Were Going Hungry, Including Children, Killer Algorithms Strike Again, Everything Stops Until The Algos Work
Over 10,000 In North Carolina Had to Wait For Over 3 Months To Receive Food Stamps, You Guessed It, Computer Glitch Again And People Were Going Hungry, Including Children, Killer Algorithms Strike Again, Everything Stops Until The Algos Work

Everything pretty much stops anymore when the systems “go down” or “don’t work” and this is yet one more situation and folks have gone for over 3 months with no stamps or payments.  We know systems are going to fail and when you get into massive government projects like this, well I think it’s time …

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28Mar2014


Former Police Officer Sues City of Milwaukee Over Release of Medical Records
Former Police Officer Sues City of Milwaukee Over Release of Medical Records

This is a difficult one to really comment on one way or another here.  You read this and you wonder “were there mental problems here”, was the information shared with a psychiatrist actually shared without following procedures?  Obviously if one has real mental health issues, that’s something to be …

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28Mar2014


Spirit Aerospace Used Employee Health Records And Age Information To Lay Off Employees Union States And Filed Federal Discrimination Law Suit
Spirit Aerospace Used Employee Health Records And Age Information To Lay Off Employees Union States And Filed Federal Discrimination Law Suit

CORRECTION:    This is Spirit Aerospace and not Spirit Airlines as I originally stated if you have already read this post.  Anything related to Spirit Airlines has been removed, my error.  The Union and the Employees filed suit with the EEOC Commission, 360 employees were let loose in July.  It ju…

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27Mar2014


Nitroglycerin IV Is the Latest Drug Shortage With Sole Producer Baxter Rationing Orders, These Are Tangibles That We Need In the “Real” World, Meanwhile The Virtual World Seems To Be Bordering On Insanity Of Late..
Nitroglycerin IV Is the Latest Drug Shortage With Sole Producer Baxter Rationing Orders, These Are Tangibles That We Need In the “Real” World, Meanwhile The Virtual World Seems To Be Bordering On Insanity Of Late..

Not too long ago it was saline and granted there’s probably not much money made in producing Nitroglycerin as is the case with saline but these are staples and items hospitals need to have on hand. It’s so bad now that hospitals are afraid of running out.  How about a virtual experience with saline…

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26Mar2014


Another Stolen Notebook With Over 1000 Medical Records On the Hard Drive - 3rd Party Vendor Again…
Another Stolen Notebook With Over 1000 Medical Records On the Hard Drive - 3rd Party Vendor Again…

This one was password protected so some relief there and so far no cases of the date being used has been reported.  Again as in so many of these stories, it’s once more the 3rd party vendor as they travel around who knows where with patients records on portable computers over and over.  BD  var p …

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26Mar2014


Facial Recognition Technology Now Selling Commercial API License For Developers to Use The Technology
Facial Recognition Technology Now Selling Commercial API License For Developers to Use The Technology

No this not a software package you buy off the shelf but it’s getting closer you could say as they have now in addition to law enforcement will sell the API access, which developers use to write an app to commercial businesses.  What does this mean?  Well your local convenience store, gas station, h…

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26Mar2014


Another Answer To Interoperability With Medical Records - Middleware From Zoeticx With Common User Interface, I Knew That Idea Would Not Die:)
Another Answer To Interoperability With Medical Records - Middleware From Zoeticx With Common User Interface, I Knew That Idea Would Not Die:)

There’s certainly nothing new about “middleware” but the difference is in the platform designs we have today and the devices that work with them.   Zoeticx has a bit of a unique answer and it accesses and contains the information on a temporary bases from the servers where the patient medical record…

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25Mar2014


Kaiser Permanente Study With mHealth Efforts Yields Better Communication and Care But Physician Schedules Had To Be Revised To Give Them Time for Their “Desktop Medicine”, So You Can Forget Half of What You Read Out When The Big Billions In Savings Are Predicted…
Kaiser Permanente Study With mHealth Efforts Yields Better Communication and Care But Physician Schedules Had To Be Revised To Give Them Time for Their “Desktop Medicine”, So You Can Forget Half of What You Read Out When The Big Billions In Savings Are Predicted…

What is is interesting is that for some reason people think that using telemedicine will save money by cutting down the time for doctors versus an inpatient visit and according to this report that holds no water at all; however the use of mHealth efforts combined with in office visits certainly seem…

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24Mar2014


United Healthcare Gets Sued Over Refusal To Pay For Lap Band Pre-Op Evaluations and Actual Surgical Procedures, “Algorithm Says”?
United Healthcare Gets Sued Over Refusal To Pay For Lap Band Pre-Op Evaluations and Actual Surgical Procedures, “Algorithm Says”?

This is an odd one here and the entire press release reads below.  Did the risk and cost algorithms change in the middle of all of this?  In read the press release, United approved the evaluations with pre-operative tests to see if patients qualified and then refuses both the surgery and the tests? …

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24Mar2014


Algorithms That Exploit, Sean Gourley CEO of Quid, Physicist Extraordinaire Describes and Talks About How the World Is Being Ruled by Algorithms, Who’s Algos Are They, Am I Going To Benefit From Them, And Where Are The Good Algos?
Algorithms That Exploit, Sean Gourley CEO of Quid, Physicist Extraordinaire Describes and Talks About How the World Is Being Ruled by Algorithms, Who’s Algos Are They, Am I Going To Benefit From Them, And Where Are The Good Algos?

I have featured the good doctor over at the Algo Duping/Attack of the Killer Algorithm pages before and here we have an update since that lecture and guess what, he’s giving us the very same warning again. The algorithms are running the financial market and as I said not too long ago, that’s the pr…

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24Mar2014
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