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United Makes More Money Contracting to Fix Vermont State Exchange
United Makes More Money Contracting to Fix Vermont State Exchange

Here’s a tale of one more state insurance exchange and the same old insurance company subsidiary cashing in again. I find it hard to believe that there’s nobody else out there that can handle the data issues.  Here’s almost another 6 million to fix the system, not to mention 100 people also working…

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31Jul2014


Emory Hospital in Georgia Prepares Isolation Unit To Treat Patient With Ebola
Emory Hospital in Georgia Prepares Isolation Unit To Treat Patient With Ebola

Emory hospital in Atlanta is preparing to care for a patient from Western Africa.  We don’ t know which patient it will be yet, 2 Americans are infected in Liberia, Nancy Writebol and Dr. Kent Brantly. Ebola is said to not be that contagious in the video but why do so many people get it?  CDC has ra…

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31Jul2014


Baxter Sells It’s Vaccine Business to Pfizer for $635 Million
Baxter Sells It’s Vaccine Business to Pfizer for $635 Million

This is further efforts on the part of Baxter to separate it’s drug other medical products business.  Pfizer is also getting a portion of Baxter's facility in Orth, Austria.  One vaccine is designed to prevent a type of meningitis and the other is designed to prevent tick-borne encephalitis.  BD …

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31Jul2014


Congratulations To The US Government - You Have Successfully Created a Complex Healthcare System Built With Little Or No Trust Where Very Few Want Or Know How to Engage With The Current Broken Model..
Congratulations To The US Government - You Have Successfully Created a Complex Healthcare System Built With Little Or No Trust Where Very Few Want Or Know How to Engage With The Current Broken Model..

Well it’s time for a rant and discussion on this topic and to try and take a look at the entire scenario.  We read every day about “patient engagement” and sure doctors and patients are still engaging with each other but not using the virtual model that our government seems to believe is what we nee…

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31Jul2014


CVS Caremark Sends Wrong Prescription Information to the Wrong Consumers
CVS Caremark Sends Wrong Prescription Information to the Wrong Consumers

The folks affected here know what someone else has on their prescription lists.  The reason for the letters going out was to solicit patients to change to a 90 day prescription fill.  It was a programming error this time and of course we just live with that of late as complexities in healthcare cont…

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30Jul2014


NueMD Looks to the Future, Sees “Mobile”
NueMD Looks to the Future, Sees “Mobile”

NueMD is a valued advertiser at the Medical Quack and are announcing a new upgrade that will stand to simplify the reimbursement process and who doesn’t want that.  Below is a message from the CEO of the company.  Nice how they are all using Ipads to show how mobility works with their systems.  Visi…

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29Jul2014


New England Quality Care Alliance, Next Up Duped On Consumer Credit Card Data And Web Information..As The Scoring of America Rolls On..
New England Quality Care Alliance, Next Up Duped On Consumer Credit Card Data And Web Information..As The Scoring of America Rolls On..

This kind of funny as the chief medical officer says he’s not real sure about it:)  We we know what happened with that Master Card Steroid Marketing Plan, here’s one more that was sold and duped.  What they are worried about here is the fact that they need to match up those who can use care manageme…

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29Jul2014


Amgen to Lay Off 2900 Employees, Close Two Plants As Profits Are Up 23% 2nd Quarter
Amgen to Lay Off 2900 Employees, Close Two Plants As Profits Are Up 23% 2nd Quarter

This is a restructuring move the article states and it’s not due to lost revenue that’s for sure. The Bothell, Washington operation will be closed impacting 600 jobs in Seattle and 50 at the manufacturing plant and it currently is the largest biotech employer in the area.  Biotech giant Amge…

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29Jul2014


Big Clinical Data Registries Next?  Why Doesn’t Congress Restore the Office of Technology Assessment?  More Proof that It’s Needed As This Is Yet One More Complex IT Project That Will Not Contribute Good Care, Just An IT Expenditure With a Lot of Quantitated Justifications Tossed In
Big Clinical Data Registries Next? Why Doesn’t Congress Restore the Office of Technology Assessment? More Proof that It’s Needed As This Is Yet One More Complex IT Project That Will Not Contribute Good Care, Just An IT Expenditure With a Lot of Quantitated Justifications Tossed In

I am not against registries at all as they are very useful and 8 years ago I built on in the EMR I wrote so no argument there at all however, a “Big Frigging Data” registry like this?  Heck no.  This is a flat out burden and big groups like Kaiser Permanente are doing good things with their registri…

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29Jul2014


AAFP Says We’re Not Going To Take It Anymore With Optimization of Provider Networks - Specifically United Healthcare’s Doctor Dumping That Disrupts Continuity of Care
AAFP Says We’re Not Going To Take It Anymore With Optimization of Provider Networks - Specifically United Healthcare’s Doctor Dumping That Disrupts Continuity of Care

This is not the first time the AAFP confronted United Healthcare as they did back in 2012 when they were getting complaints from doctors across the US that they were getting paid at rates less than Medicare.  I hear it all the time in the OC with doctors telling me by use of complex contracts, their…

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29Jul2014


Hospira In Talks With Buying French Company, Danone - Could Be $5 Billion Dollar Tax Inversion
Hospira In Talks With Buying French Company, Danone - Could Be $5 Billion Dollar Tax Inversion

There may be one more on the agenda coming up and nothing is in concrete yet.  Hospira is known for being one of the few manufacturers of propofol.  BD Hospira a Midwestern pharmaceutical and medical device maker, is in talks to pay about $5 billion for the medical nutrition business of the F…

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27Jul2014


Protandim And Oxidative Stress Relief At the Medical Quack…
Protandim And Oxidative Stress Relief At the Medical Quack…

I decided to put on the Medical Quack as I have been taking Protandim now for around 45 days and it is making a difference with how I feel, sleep and with my knees.  I’m not an easy sell but what did I have to lose so I tried it and I have taken all kinds of vitamins over the years and I do have to …

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27Jul2014


United Healthcare Rolls Out Mobile App For Consumers To Address Transparency With Shopping for Medical Treatments, Fine But What About Transparency With Data Selling Which Is Still Non Existent for Consumers, What’s Being “Mined” With this App for Predictive Behavioral Analytics?
United Healthcare Rolls Out Mobile App For Consumers To Address Transparency With Shopping for Medical Treatments, Fine But What About Transparency With Data Selling Which Is Still Non Existent for Consumers, What’s Being “Mined” With this App for Predictive Behavioral Analytics?

Would I used this, nope.  More and more we all know there’s a trade off for apps and services and of course I’m sure this is no different as we all know United is the king at gathering data, data and more data about you, so why would this be any different?  So it’s collected data from members alread…

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27Jul2014


Healthgrades Partners With Athena Health To Provide Easier Access to Book Appointments, Like Maybe Doing Better With Sorting Out Some of the “Dead Doctors” Seeing Patients in the After Life?
Healthgrades Partners With Athena Health To Provide Easier Access to Book Appointments, Like Maybe Doing Better With Sorting Out Some of the “Dead Doctors” Seeing Patients in the After Life?

Well it looks like there’s a new way to determine if some are really dead doctors on Healthgrades, on staff at the hospital stated, and again a way to separate the click bait for ads that Healthgrades has grown to be, along with Vitals, same thing.  The amazing thing here is that AthenaHealth funded…

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27Jul2014


Texas Doctor Working With Ebola Patients in Africa Now Has the Disease Amidst All Precautions and Safeguards-Of Course Still Listed on HealthGrades As Taking New Appointments in Dallas
Texas Doctor Working With Ebola Patients in Africa Now Has the Disease Amidst All Precautions and Safeguards-Of Course Still Listed on HealthGrades As Taking New Appointments in Dallas

Not to take away from the seriousness of this story but again don’t rely on Healthgrades or Vitas for any information and expect even a small degree of accuracy these days.  The doctor is only 33 years old and this is sad indeed as he’s giving him time and effort to help people with this deadly dise…

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27Jul2014


Automatic Renewals With Health Insurance Are Too Risky To Take That Chance - Algorithmic Business Models Have Changed Since Initial Enrollment As Well As Price - Would Not Do It Without Full Research as Killer Algorithms Cycle Through Here As Well..
Automatic Renewals With Health Insurance Are Too Risky To Take That Chance - Algorithmic Business Models Have Changed Since Initial Enrollment As Well As Price - Would Not Do It Without Full Research as Killer Algorithms Cycle Through Here As Well..

This is a good article and while renewals are meant to be something to make life easier, you can’t say that anymore as what you think you are renewing may cause some financial surprises and here once again the convenience is there, but consumers have to look at the consequences as we are still loo…

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27Jul2014


Johns Hopkins $190 Million Settlement Complex But Will Be Paid By Insurance Created by A Pool of Hospitals In the Northeast Years Ago To Pool Risk
Johns Hopkins $190 Million Settlement Complex But Will Be Paid By Insurance Created by A Pool of Hospitals In the Northeast Years Ago To Pool Risk

Between the pooled risk insurance company and a second company formed a long time ago in Bermuda, this is where the payment settlements will come from.  As many as 10,000 patients may be splitting the money so when you break it down that’s not as large as it seems with the big dollar amount but stil…

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27Jul2014


Former Hospital Owner in Texas Convicted of Medicare Billing Fraud And Faking Documentation for EMR Stimulus Funds of $18 Million..
Former Hospital Owner in Texas Convicted of Medicare Billing Fraud And Faking Documentation for EMR Stimulus Funds of $18 Million..

At one time he had 6 hospitals, 4 closed and 2 are struggling with financial issues under new ownership.  The news stated he was allowed to operate this way for years before it was finally addressed.  There were a couple billing coders that were asked and told to change the codes and they refused so…

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25Jul2014


Doctor Shoots Armed Patient in Philadelphia Hospital - Saves Lives But Case Worker Shot By Patient Died
Doctor Shoots Armed Patient in Philadelphia Hospital - Saves Lives But Case Worker Shot By Patient Died

A doctor came to the rescue here after the mentally ill patient had already shot his case worker and I don’t see a problem with that as the patient was headed for doctor Silverman next.  The doctor didn’t kill the patient but wounded him pretty bad.  The case worker died from being shot by the patie…

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25Jul2014


Zoeticx Clarity Server - Middleware HIE Will Save Millions Maybe Billions With HIE And Has 3-6 Year ONC Compatible Time Line, Works Using APIs, Web Apps Where Nobody Has to Swap Out Their EHR…
Zoeticx Clarity Server - Middleware HIE Will Save Millions Maybe Billions With HIE And Has 3-6 Year ONC Compatible Time Line, Works Using APIs, Web Apps Where Nobody Has to Swap Out Their EHR…

You have may have already read about the big CommonWell project with the consortium of big EMR players and what they are working on I’m sure is right along this line as well with using APIs and a cloud platform to connect any type of electronic medical record system.  Again they have more involved o…

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25Jul2014
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