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FDA Clears Import of More Saline Solution to Help Ease Shortages In the US
There has been a saline shortage going on for a while now and the FDA has cleared Baxter to being importing from their plant in Spain. Also another company Fresenius Kabi, was given the ok to export saline to the US. Spike In Flu Creating Shortage With IV Saline Solutions In Hospitals Across the…
FDA Pays Out A Half A Million To Consortium to Find Out What Patient Preferences Are With Risk Assessments Relative to Medical Devices?
This sounds like another one of those types of studies to “find out how people work” from reading the article. It sounds very strange and all these folks, advocates, industry representatives, and regulators have to be involved in the process. I don’t know about you but the average patient I don’t…
Layoffs Coming to Kern Hospital in Bakersfield - Return of Desperate Hospitals
Here’s another hospital in financial straits and hates having to lay people off as this is their income to support families. I know sometimes people forget that side of it when layoffs occur, the real impact it has on families. They sound like a good candidate for ICD10 risk pools so they don’t an…
Bill Clinton States He’s Tired of Being “Click Bait” for the News Media When It Comes to News Articles About Obamacare and the ACA
He basically said stop making up stories:) We do a lot of different news today and it’s not always the reporters fault as some papers now evaluate part of their job performance on how many “clicks” their news story gets. This actually has nothing to do with the content but it’s rather about ad imp…
“Markets Are Not Rigged” Spoken Like A True Data Mechanics Novice, It’s Like Sebelius at HHS All Over Again, Looking For Algo Fairies at The SEC, One More Government Agency Wrapped Up in “The Grays”…
You can do a Google search and see tons of articles that are basically written in astonishment of this statement from Mary Jo White, Head of the SEC. It is getting old when you have people that write code and math models that try to educate and advise consumers of what’s going on with servers 24/7,…
Palm Drive Hospital In Santa Rosa Shuts Down, No Money
Here’s yet one more in northern California that’s been struggling to say alive for a few years with a couple of bankruptcies. It’s that same old subject that nobody wants to talk about, “hospital inequality” “Hospital Inequality” - Yet One More Growing Issue With Healthcare In the US.. The hosp…
UCLA Rejects Donald Sterling $3 Million Dollar Donation For Kidney Research on the Fall Out of the Decision Made by the NBA To Ban Him…
Of course normally any donation is nice but not any more in this case. This is Los Angeles and I’m sure there might be plenty others to step in singly or a group and replace the $3 Million as there’s lots of folks that can do it here and UCLA is not on the “desperate hospital” list either. There w…
Practice Fusion and Merck Partner With Vaccine Notification Data
This is interesting and normally a medical record component has a place for vaccine monitoring so not quite sure where the “real” value is here with this collaboration other than Merck having some access to data? I see mentioned a lot the comparison of the community as being “valued” information fo…
ICD10 Enough Already, Set Up Some Risk Pools To Help The Poor Hospitals That May Not Have Enough Money To Come On Board When the Next New Date Approaches..
Nobody wants to talk about this we have hospital inequality…so I’ll say it again. Hospitals with money are complaining due to their investment to meet the original date. It’s a break for the poor hospitals to get credit lines and have more time to set up. Ok so we know you lost money on your inve…
Local Arizona Television Station Becoming a Major Patient Advocate In Battling Denied United Healthcare Insurance Claims For Consumers…”Healthcare Nightmares” (Videos)
This is amazing, 3 videos here and the other day I blogged one about the station helping on an Aetna denied claim. This shows how complex health insurance has become. In addition I was reading an article the other day that relates to coding and billing and now that electronic medical records are u…
VA Hospital in Phoenix A Broken Model of Care With Health IT Scheduling Implementations Where Virtual World Values and the Real World Collide, A Deadly Case of “The Grays”…
I’ doing a little guessing here and speculation from what I am reading about the latest article about the VA hospital in Phoenix. You can read through and see the explanations of how a new scheduling system was making improvements and that I don’t doubt at all was rolling through a lot of hoops wit…
Data Selling Grows A Bit More Today With Verizon Wanting to Monitor Both Your Mobile and Home Computer Tracks - We Knew This Was Coming As SAP Wanted Some of This Action to Further Define Targets and Broker It…
Ok so the question is, did SAP get in the door here to make a few bucks too? It seem like all we do any more is support banks and on line advertising. All of this for targeted marketing so I’ll have to start using Tor more often I guess and make sure I have a strong enough scanner to find these hi…
Doctors A Big Target This Year With Tax Fraud, Many Are Finding They Can’t File With The IRS Because Someone Already Has Filed Under Their Name
This year an unusual large number of physicians have been targeted, much so to the fact that various state medical societies and boards are also doing their investigation. The AMA also confirmed that they have been hearing from an unusually large amount of doctors as well. When they to file the re…
Three American Doctor Shot to Death in Afghanistan At Hospital
These were doctors working for a charity from the US, mostly helping children and women. A guard opened up fire and a nurse was also injured in the attack. He was the guard that had been hired to protect the doctors. The Cure International Hospital was founded in 2005 and sees 37,000 patients a …
Injured Good Samaritan Gets $165,000 Bill Denied by Aetna - Local Television Station Helped Him With Part of the Resolution
A few years ago we had lots of these types of stories about insurers not covering major medical bills and it seems like they are now returning and the best help patient can get with some of the issues is to go to a television stations and blast it all over the place. This man tried to save an accid…
18 Months After Hurricane Sandy, NYU Medical Center Emergency Room Re-Opens
Obviously it was remodeled after the damage that occurred and now the ER is much larger as well. This took a long time to repair and get back in working order. There was a temporary emergency area a block down the road but it not able to take ambulances in. 180 patients were there for opening day…
VA Hospital in Phoenix And The Secret Waiting List - Patients Are Victims Of A System Where Meeting Analytical Goals Trumps Any Sort of Ethics And Care-“The Grays” Where People Can No Longer Tell the Difference Between “Virtual” and “Real” World Values
Update: Sharron Helman, Director of the Phoenix VA made almost $10,000 in bonus money as well. We all know the VA is under pressure almost all across the country and this is the sad result when such methodologies are used to hide what is actually happening in the “real” world and virtual statist…
World Privacy Forum Report - The Scoring of America: How Secret Consumer Scores Threaten Your Privacy and Your Future - One Big Element that Fuels the Continued Attack of Killer Algorithms & Demise of the Middle Class Creating Profiteering And/Or Denial of Access
I included this report in another post and the more I thought about it, the more I thought it should have it’s own post as it’s very important and relative. You hear me talk about my “coins” of “The Attack of the Killer Algorithms” and “Algo Duping” all the time, well the “scoring” is exactly that,…
