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Sharing “For The Good” All But Disappears as “Sharing For the Good Money” Is Taking Over–NHS To Continue Selling Patient Records to Health Insurers As Patient Privacy and Dignity Suffer Another Loss…
Sharing “For The Good” All But Disappears as “Sharing For the Good Money” Is Taking Over–NHS To Continue Selling Patient Records to Health Insurers As Patient Privacy and Dignity Suffer Another Loss…

It sounds like the NHS has some of the same issues we have in the US, a lot of “Dupers” that have no clue on how data mechanics logic works from reading this article.  You have to realize today that an insurance company is not just one function, they do a lot of different things to include data sell…

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28Nov2014


Computer Scientist, Jaron Lanier Explains How Big Data Is Used to Limit Our Freedom–The Value of Your Personal Data…
Computer Scientist, Jaron Lanier Explains How Big Data Is Used to Limit Our Freedom–The Value of Your Personal Data…

He discusses the suffering of wealth distribution, recoveries that don’t have jobs included to start out.  The internet is not helping but rather is hurting.  We have not seen an explosion of wealth, but rather more a seeking of attention, and he specifically talks about the media being affected by …

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27Nov2014


What’s Going On With the Media–Journalism Interviewing Data Bases, People And Journo Bot Comes In To Play…
What’s Going On With the Media–Journalism Interviewing Data Bases, People And Journo Bot Comes In To Play…

Kenneth Cukier from the Economist explains in this 15 minute video how the face of journalism is changing and as readers we don’t all of it, but it’s good to be aware and understand what they are working with today.  He states sure we need both, input from people and data.  News media companies are …

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27Nov2014


Online Data Brokers Persist, Listing Consumers on Chronic Disease Mailing Lists And More–Need To License and Index All Data Sellers, Brokers, Banks, Companies, Otherwise You Don’t Have a Complete Listing of Who They Are…
Online Data Brokers Persist, Listing Consumers on Chronic Disease Mailing Lists And More–Need To License and Index All Data Sellers, Brokers, Banks, Companies, Otherwise You Don’t Have a Complete Listing of Who They Are…

As much as this is in the news, it still persists and people don’t like it, especially when it’s flawed and it really represents some sloppy data work, all to make a buck.  The FTC has again asked for help from Congress.  The TV station went knocking door to door and people were not happy.  One Stat…

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25Nov2014


HHS Error on Enrollment Figures–Grave Layers of Distraction With Both Government and Consumers, How Easily Distraction Occurs Today Relative to Odd Perceptional Priorities Along With A Cast of Dupers In Tuck, What a Joke..
HHS Error on Enrollment Figures–Grave Layers of Distraction With Both Government and Consumers, How Easily Distraction Occurs Today Relative to Odd Perceptional Priorities Along With A Cast of Dupers In Tuck, What a Joke..

So how long are we going to be distracted and hang on to this error?  For goodness sakes when you errors at such if people had any data mechanics logic they would understand that an error of such is common as  the queries require a long process with analytics and there are a team of people that are …

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25Nov2014


FDA Rules to Require Restaurants, Movie Theaters, Pizza Parlors and More to Post Calorie Counts on Menus-Smart Way to Address Obesity With Education Versus Apps and Algorithms & Infographics Mapping Fat People..
FDA Rules to Require Restaurants, Movie Theaters, Pizza Parlors and More to Post Calorie Counts on Menus-Smart Way to Address Obesity With Education Versus Apps and Algorithms & Infographics Mapping Fat People..

We have seen obesity all over the map from the recent errors at CDC on their website to tons of people who love to make infographics to show us where all the fat people are in the US.  I hate those infographics as they don’t do anything other than let the creator say “look what a pretty infographics…

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24Nov2014


CMS Gives Hospitals an Extra 30 Days to Complete Meaningful Use Reporting for 2014
CMS Gives Hospitals an Extra 30 Days to Complete Meaningful Use Reporting for 2014

Penalties will apply for those who do not submit their qualifying data and this also covered the clinical quality measure submissions.  Again this gives a little breathing room for now but there’s other issues that need work and follow up as the entire process, much like everything else in the world…

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24Nov2014


Training Prisoners to Code At San Quentin–What A Great Way to Train Future Hackers…
Training Prisoners to Code At San Quentin–What A Great Way to Train Future Hackers…

Ok so hopefully the title got your attention here as that’s what it was designed to do.  No this is not all bad as they need something to do that’s constructive and right now the entire US thinks everyone needs to code, code, code.  I don’t agree with that but we do need a much larger base of prog…

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24Nov2014


Many States Trying To Figure Out Where to Get the Money to Keep Insurance Exchanges Open, While the GOP Wants the Money Back Already Spent?
Many States Trying To Figure Out Where to Get the Money to Keep Insurance Exchanges Open, While the GOP Wants the Money Back Already Spent?

Yes it’s nuts from the GOP at this point to even think about getting the money back and time move on with that idea as it won’t work.  Now back on track various states are trying to figure out now that the Federal funds are going away, how to stay open.  These are the states that set up their own ex…

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23Nov2014


Detroit Hospital the Victim of Identity Theft $500,000 Worth of Fake Patient Tax Returns Filed
Detroit Hospital the Victim of Identity Theft $500,000 Worth of Fake Patient Tax Returns Filed

Here we go again the tax return scheme.  Last time it was in Florida with a hospital that had been hit 3 times in 2 years, all inside jobs. One More Reason to License Data Sellers–Income Tax Fraud On the Rise-Who Are You Buying Your Data From And Who’s Buying Your Data? 60Minutes Report Hundreds …

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23Nov2014


Hospital for Seniors Closed Due to Abuse of Patients…
Hospital for Seniors Closed Due to Abuse of Patients…

This has to be one of the worst I have read in a while about senior abuse and a facility.  One patient was shoved to the floor by a worker and had to be taken to a hospital.   The last patient was moved out at the end of October.  It took the facility 2 years to get regulatory qualifications to get …

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23Nov2014


Goldman Sachs Big Investor in Kensho Analytics & Will Roll Out to Selected Clients– A Siri Service for Investors
Goldman Sachs Big Investor in Kensho Analytics & Will Roll Out to Selected Clients– A Siri Service for Investors

Kensho was founded in 2012, so it’s not that old and I say here it’s like a competitor of sorts to IBM Watson if you will but with a specific focus right now on investors to ask questions about the markets.  The software scours the web and gives a response. The responses are customized to the type…

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23Nov2014


Prime Healthcare to Buy St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Port Huron Michigan
Prime Healthcare to Buy St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Port Huron Michigan

Here’s another one for Prime and as we all pretty much know, Prime buys hospitals in financial stress and has been doing that for a few years now and it all began in California where the company is located.  Prime Healthcare Services also acquired Garden City Hospital in Garden City, Michigan, earli…

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23Nov2014


Johns Hopkins -Insurance Plans From United Healthcare Bought Via Exchanges Will Not Be Able to Use Johns Hopkins Physicians or Medical System–Filed Lawsuit To Sue United, Stating Violation of 1997 Contract
Johns Hopkins -Insurance Plans From United Healthcare Bought Via Exchanges Will Not Be Able to Use Johns Hopkins Physicians or Medical System–Filed Lawsuit To Sue United, Stating Violation of 1997 Contract

A few days ago I posted with information from the insurer themselves that doctors will be compensated at a rate slightly above what Medicaid pays, so I’m sure that’s what’s going on here as it’s all contracts and price.  Other United Healthcare polices via employers and I’m guessing Medicare Advanta…

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22Nov2014


Kaiser Permanente Mental Health Workers Demand a Fix for Inadequate Care
Kaiser Permanente Mental Health Workers Demand a Fix for Inadequate Care

Last year Kaiser was fined $4 million by the state of California that stated patients were not getting timely care and access.  The California Department of Managed care was the agency who assessed the fine.  I have read other accountings on the web here and there about this topic so this is nothing…

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22Nov2014


FDA Approves Another Extended Release Hydrocodone Product With Abuse Deterrent Properties
FDA Approves Another Extended Release Hydrocodone Product With Abuse Deterrent Properties

Well I thought we were trying to crack down on hydrocodone abuse and maybe the deterrent properties are the key here.  In the last couple of years I seem to remember more of these types of products being approved or maybe I’m just imagining things?  It comes from Purdue labs, one of the long time ma…

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20Nov2014


Science and Healthcare Technologies–Two Parties on Complete Opposite Ends, Enter the World of the GOP Skeptics and the Democratic Dupers
Science and Healthcare Technologies–Two Parties on Complete Opposite Ends, Enter the World of the GOP Skeptics and the Democratic Dupers

I have never seen anything like this and I’m not happy with either party.  I can understand the battle a bit though as the Democratic Dupers have sucked in so much “junk science” that it has irritated the other side to be the party of no with almost any science.  I get irritated with what I called t…

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19Nov2014


CDC Shuts Down Obesity For the Work Place Web Site–One of Those Failed Models That Continues to Tie Obesity to Financial Losses-A Broken Proof of Concept Model That Does Not Work And Strips Employees of Their Dignity
CDC Shuts Down Obesity For the Work Place Web Site–One of Those Failed Models That Continues to Tie Obesity to Financial Losses-A Broken Proof of Concept Model That Does Not Work And Strips Employees of Their Dignity

What’s the matter with people anymore with being stuck in stat rat world?  Do they think an obese person is going to look at this as something positive?  With as bad as companies have been today with little concern for the people they employ at times (and this is not all employers) do they think thi…

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18Nov2014
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