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Healthcare Policy Experts/Politicians - They Really No Longer Exist and Consumers Are Too Busy Being Chased by Algorithms Anymore to Care About You Anyway…
Healthcare Policy Experts/Politicians - They Really No Longer Exist and Consumers Are Too Busy Being Chased by Algorithms Anymore to Care About You Anyway…

Fact of the matter is we don’t have any of these folks around anymore, maybe except in their own minds.  We can take Hillary Clinton for one and I like her but she’s old news in healthcare as it’s a much different world from when she entered the field years ago.  Right now everyone is all caught up …

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30Jun2014


CEO of Insurance Company Commits Suicide With Nail Gun After Draining Employee Retirement Accounts
CEO of Insurance Company Commits Suicide With Nail Gun After Draining Employee Retirement Accounts

Is is any wonder no matter where you work that retirement funds are something employees worry about.  This was a smaller company and half of what was invested for the employees never got there and we have a lawsuit now as the company went bankrupt.  There was a false front on the company looking lik…

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30Jun2014


“Virtual Unreality” - Maybe A Good Read After the Fake Facebook “Science” Report To Help You Figure Out What’s A Virtual Value and What’s A Real Value Out There
“Virtual Unreality” - Maybe A Good Read After the Fake Facebook “Science” Report To Help You Figure Out What’s A Virtual Value and What’s A Real Value Out There

With all the fuss over the fake Facebook Science, maybe time to recommend a book and I have not read it yet but it’s on my list as it just came out and I read his prior book “Proofiness” which I wrote about a couple years ago.  Here’s a link to a short interview as what’s done with all new books whe…

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30Jun2014


Orion Health Technologies to Build HIE For Sutter Hospitals in California Costing Tens of Millions of Dollars…
Orion Health Technologies to Build HIE For Sutter Hospitals in California Costing Tens of Millions of Dollars…

I haven’t heard Orion mentioned in a while but here’s a couple back links below to where they first of all bought the former Microsoft Amalga HIE technologies a few years ago.  In addition, Caradigm company was created with joint efforts of both Microsoft and GE and it would make sense they are affi…

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28Jun2014


FDA Approved ReWalk System For Patient Use Outside of Rehabilitation Centers
FDA Approved ReWalk System For Patient Use Outside of Rehabilitation Centers

Well I see some new fundraisers coming up as the ReWalk product is not cheap at $69,000 and the product will be available immediately.  Below is the prior FDA approval.  FDA Approves “ ReWalk ” Device That Enables Paralyzed Individuals to Walk Of course when we think of devices like this we think o…

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28Jun2014


Health Plans and Claim Clearinghouses With Virtual Credit Cards-Racking Up Additional Fees From Doctors
Health Plans and Claim Clearinghouses With Virtual Credit Cards-Racking Up Additional Fees From Doctors

Ok so we are looking at money streams once again, same thing we always talk about with electronic transactions and now it appears from reading this article that physician are being marketed to use Virtual Credit Cards to be reimbursed. The rub here is the fee and as the article states on a small bi…

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28Jun2014


Something Froze Over Today As the FDA Approved Afrezza Inhalable Insulin
Something Froze Over Today As the FDA Approved Afrezza Inhalable Insulin

This has been one long haul for MannKind Corporation as it got close once before but the commitment (and the money) has been there to keep it going.  It has been approved for either diabetes type one or type two.  The first product similar to this was one from Pfizer that looked like a bong but this…

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27Jun2014


“We Are Not Ready For Healthcare Data Mining” - Guest Post
“We Are Not Ready For Healthcare Data Mining” - Guest Post

Today, here’s guest post from Cathy O’Neil at the blog “Mathbabe” with many of the same references you have heard from me of late relative to medical data.  You can also view video #3 in the footer of my blog to listen to a lecture she gave a while back.  It’s there along with 3 other videos I consi…

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27Jun2014


Oh Crap, Now Hospitals Are Now Buying Data From Acxiom - Data Selling Epidemic Continues to Evade on Personal Privacy As “Algo Duped-Stat Rat” People Try to Implement Virtual Models That Won’t Work…
Oh Crap, Now Hospitals Are Now Buying Data From Acxiom - Data Selling Epidemic Continues to Evade on Personal Privacy As “Algo Duped-Stat Rat” People Try to Implement Virtual Models That Won’t Work…

Heck Acxiom and LexisNexis will do anything to make a buck and just make our lives miserable.  So now it sounds like they have hospitals convinced they need this data as well.  It’s bad enough with insurers for goodness sakes with all their data analytics and you know what, it has not done a single …

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25Jun2014


SydaSoft Medical Billing Software And Practice Management - Become A Billing Expert With ClaimTek Systems…
SydaSoft Medical Billing Software And Practice Management - Become A Billing Expert With ClaimTek Systems…

SydaSoft Practice Management software is a sponsor at the Medical Quack.  SydaSoft also offers billing services if you would rather not handle in house.  You can find their full product list here and compare to see which might be the best fit for your practice.  “If you are an established billin…

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25Jun2014


Law Firm Investigating UnitedHealthCare Claim Payments in New York Stating Under-Reimbursement By Manipulating Algorithmic Benefit Calculations…
Law Firm Investigating UnitedHealthCare Claim Payments in New York Stating Under-Reimbursement By Manipulating Algorithmic Benefit Calculations…

I don’t know if this is in network or out of network and the reason I mention this is that it sound similar to the old Ingenix out of network algorithms that were used and then declared low-balled and led to the AMA lawsuit against the company for short paying doctors for 15 years.  New Fair Data …

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25Jun2014


IMS Health Buys Cegedim Information Systems to Include CRM and Intelligence Software - Data Selling Business Gets Healthier and Wealthier But Can’t Say the Same for the Health of US Citizens - It’s All About Making Money Selling Data, The Epidemic
IMS Health Buys Cegedim Information Systems to Include CRM and Intelligence Software - Data Selling Business Gets Healthier and Wealthier But Can’t Say the Same for the Health of US Citizens - It’s All About Making Money Selling Data, The Epidemic

This company just had it’s IPO and became public not too long ago and as you can read they hold data on 85% of the world’s prescriptions which means of course they sell a lot of data too.  When you look at the IMS executives, very little in clinical backgrounds compared to capital and other relate…

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24Jun2014


MMRGlobal-A Day Federal Court Along With Quest Diagnostics, Jardogs, Allscripts and WebMD - Patent Testimony Information
MMRGlobal-A Day Federal Court Along With Quest Diagnostics, Jardogs, Allscripts and WebMD - Patent Testimony Information

From reading the press release today this was a day in which both sides made their presentations relative to patent violations claimed by MMRGlobal, aka MyMedicalRecord.com.  MMR Global has already settled with Walgreens and you can read at the link below about the new PHR in a box to be sold on Dru…

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23Jun2014


The Quiet and Unspoken Consumer Movement to Stay Off the Radar - Contrary To All You Read About Sensors, Apps and Wearables, More Folks Are Running for the Exit Doors…
The Quiet and Unspoken Consumer Movement to Stay Off the Radar - Contrary To All You Read About Sensors, Apps and Wearables, More Folks Are Running for the Exit Doors…

You may not hear about this a lot but it’s a big move as consumers are getting tired of being marketed and sold.  I spent many years in sales and also time as a developer and of course I have respect for both but today the methodologies of “chasing” consumers down is growing old.  We don’t want to b…

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23Jun2014


So What Avenue Will Walgreens Take, A Tax Inversion and Move to the UK or Reduction in Costs, Which Means Lay Offs And/Or Closures To Bolster the Value of The Stock?
So What Avenue Will Walgreens Take, A Tax Inversion and Move to the UK or Reduction in Costs, Which Means Lay Offs And/Or Closures To Bolster the Value of The Stock?

Remember HP and their big 50k person layoff announcement?  Well that’s an option here.  Sure companies do lay off and restructure but when you look at stock buy back programs in the masses as we have done primarily to bolster up the stock price, you can’t help but see that’s an issue here and what n…

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23Jun2014
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