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“Inside The Dark Web” Documentary -Digital Illiterate Law Makers in a Panic And the Creator of The Internet Is Soul Searching -Data Collecting and Selling That Defies Our Privacy
“Inside The Dark Web” Documentary -Digital Illiterate Law Makers in a Panic And the Creator of The Internet Is Soul Searching -Data Collecting and Selling That Defies Our Privacy

Is the web we love been turned against us is the question raised from this video.  Some of those themselves who created the web are soul searching themselves on what was created and scientists are fighting back. This is great and says what I have said for quite a while, people confuse the virtual wo…

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29Apr2015


Leave It Up to Congress and the White House to Turn the SGR Repeal into a Media Circus…Daily Show..
Leave It Up to Congress and the White House to Turn the SGR Repeal into a Media Circus…Daily Show..

He calls it right again, Jon Stewart nails it and boy are we going to miss him.  Congress like he said is just dropping all over themselves with congratulating each other for doing their job.  It just goes to show how far away from reality we really are today when we need a full on media showering o…

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22Apr2015


With Lower Reimbursement from Insurers and Medicare, LabCorp To Allow Customers to To Go Online To Pay for And Schedule Tests Without a Visit to the Doctor, Looking for New Revenue Streams…
With Lower Reimbursement from Insurers and Medicare, LabCorp To Allow Customers to To Go Online To Pay for And Schedule Tests Without a Visit to the Doctor, Looking for New Revenue Streams…

We knew someday this would be coming and I would say obviously the tests are limited to those which a consumer can understand and are part of common blood work tests that are done every day.  The article mentions that years ago Quest tried the same thing and it fizzled.  LabCorp is also the company …

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20Apr2015


Mayo Clinic is the Latest to Outsource Revenue Cycling to Optum 360, A United Healthcare/Dignity Health Company Pursuing Hospital Contracts All Over the US For Profit…
Mayo Clinic is the Latest to Outsource Revenue Cycling to Optum 360, A United Healthcare/Dignity Health Company Pursuing Hospital Contracts All Over the US For Profit…

If you haven’t seen this way of outsourcing hospital revenue cycling and employees, here’s the latest from the Optum 360 group.  It’s a company owned by both Untied and Dignity Health with Optum/United Healthcare being the controlling party.  You could certainly assume this provides some revenue for…

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17Apr2015


News Rigging Has Arrived! Astroturf and Manipulation of Media Messages-TED Video About “The Fake Grass Roots” Of Big Pharma and Other Campaigns That Fool and Fool Again…
News Rigging Has Arrived! Astroturf and Manipulation of Media Messages-TED Video About “The Fake Grass Roots” Of Big Pharma and Other Campaigns That Fool and Fool Again…

This is a great video and if you read at the Medical Quack, news rigging has been a somewhat frequent content. To a degree, everyone is really becoming more skeptical of what’s in the news.  Here’s a post from a couple of years ago, from Quant Cathy O’Neill, “On Being a Skeptic”.  Who knows better …

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15Apr2015


Optum (United Healthcare) Buys MedExpress Urgent Care Business- 141 Full Service Clinics In 11 States–Company Advertises They Are In the Market to Buy Your MD Practice, As A “Too Big To Fail Insurer” Moves Forward With More Acquisitions
Optum (United Healthcare) Buys MedExpress Urgent Care Business- 141 Full Service Clinics In 11 States–Company Advertises They Are In the Market to Buy Your MD Practice, As A “Too Big To Fail Insurer” Moves Forward With More Acquisitions

No word on how long before “rebranding” may take place with the name yet.  Optum has already been in this business to a small degree in Texas and I believe one in Kansas so far.  The link below tells you what’s going on there and I think they are up to nine clinics now.  MedExpress plans on opening …

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12Apr2015


Pioneering Clinical Trials Using Man Made DNA to Battle Cancer, Ebola, Flue and HIV
Pioneering Clinical Trials Using Man Made DNA to Battle Cancer, Ebola, Flue and HIV

This is exciting stuff as scientists have now been able to create DNA strands that can mimic diseases and the clinical trials involved injecting them into patients  and that process eliminates the disease threat.  A company by the name of Inovio has begun clinical trials with humans and the first di…

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12Apr2015


Because They Lied About Their Code Being Done With Eclipsys EMR Software Merger, Allscripts Agrees to Pay A $10 Million Dollar Fine To Settle Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit..
Because They Lied About Their Code Being Done With Eclipsys EMR Software Merger, Allscripts Agrees to Pay A $10 Million Dollar Fine To Settle Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit..

This is some good soap opera material here.  When this all hit, I wrote that “they lied about their code” and that turned out to be the case, it was not done.  I have a couple analysts call me and they were confused and chatted with me.  “What do you mean the code was not done, they had a deadline t…

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05Apr2015


“RX-The Quiet Revolution”–Documentary Focuses on a Diverse Group of Doctors and Healthcare Professionals Transforming Medical Care and Putting the Patient at the Center of Their Practice…
“RX-The Quiet Revolution”–Documentary Focuses on a Diverse Group of Doctors and Healthcare Professionals Transforming Medical Care and Putting the Patient at the Center of Their Practice…

This a long documentary, 90 minutes but well worth watching.  Below the line you can read what the film is all about.  Actually you get to see some of the values we liked about Dr. Welby making a come back, combined with using modern day technology in a way where it fits.  House calls are back and t…

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03Apr2015


CVS to Share More Medication Adherence Love With New Contracts–Will Have More Data to Sell…
CVS to Share More Medication Adherence Love With New Contracts–Will Have More Data to Sell…

Ok, so now if you wait 2 days to pick up your prescription, your doctor is going to know.  If you don’t pick it up at all, your doctor will know.  With linking other information to paying for your prescription at CVS, you doctor may now know.  Here we go again with “over rated” medication adherenc…

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02Apr2015
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