It’s been a while since we have had any IHHI news but it rocked the news wires quite a bit a few years back. There was a bit of everything ...
Privacy Duping of America-The Intangible Threat Model Has Changed Significantly-Companies Hide The Code On the Web, $180 Billion Dollar A Year Business, Welcome to The Duperville World of Inequality..
This is a pretty good article from Wired Magazine and it’s the truth and pretty much a lot of what I say here, so good to see others join in...
Koch Brothers Buy Irish Medical Device Company Protek Medical
Even the Koch Brothers are dabbling in the medical business, but this one, is an Irish company and as the article mentions, it will be dovet...
Got A Referral for a Specialist? Too Bad You Can’t Go There Anymore as The Doctor Works in a Competing Health System, EMR Records Expressed Over To The “Covered Provider”…
It’s not just insurance that keeps you from retaining your doctor, look at this at how competing Health Systems just capture you, your medic...
Walgreens Spins Off Home Drug Infusion Company–Option Care Bought by Private Equity Firm Madison Dearborn Partners..Option One Formerly Walgreens Infusion Services Subsidiary
We all know that cutbacks and/or changes were coming with Walgreens as was noted in the big $ 8 billion dollar bond sale last year with deb...
Medical Society of New York Wins Down Coding Algorithm Case Against United Healthcare, Short Paying Doctors Again–Killer Algorithms For Big Profits Live Everywhere…
This has been a long case and just goes to show you how far back insurers have been using sophisticated and non sophisticated algorithms to ...
“Information Blocking” Finally Revealed for the Hoax and Make Believe Story That It Is With Medical Records Sharing and Interoperating…
I said from the start that this was an absolute made up story and nice to see Dr. Halamka at Harvard Medical address this. I have seen tons...
CVS Buys Omnicare–Selling Drugs to the Elderly Via Nursing Homes and Assisted Living Homes And Pays Over $2 Million Dollar Fine In California for False Advertising
Here’s another big gobble and former White House ACA leader and Medicare Head, Nancy DeParle who sits on the CVS Board can count more money...
“Economists, They Think That They are Scientists, They Come Up With What They Call Laws, They’re Not Laws” …
Quant Paul Wilmott says it all….if you like this clip, scroll down to the second video in the footer and watch the Quant documentary. Read ...
“The Great Math Mystery”–Software Engineering-Looking for Where It Does and Doesn’t Work-The Physics Connection…
There’s a lot of good discussion here with both the history of math and how it relates and works with the real world. The laws of physics i...
Union Protesting, Accuses Kaiser of Firing Psychologist Who Was a Whistleblower
Kaiser has been under fire for a few years now with not providing adequate mental care and this appears to be a continuation of the process ...
QSSI (United Healthcare Subsidiary) Calls It Quits With Healthcare.Gov-Stepping Down as Primary Contractor/Manager
This is interesting and it could be due to the 8 month extension given QSSI expiring and maybe HHS/CMS decided not to renew? There could be...
Optum Clinics Holdings, New Subsidiary Incorporated In 2015 Raises Over 36 Million (Exchange of Shares) From Investors Unknown-Form D Used to Maintain Secrecy Of Who They Are For Now…
Here’s yet one more subsidiary of the giant insurance/technology behemoth that has been created this year. This is probably du e to the fac...
“Tech Neck” Devices Causing New Medical Condition From Constantly Looking Down At Your Cellphone, Tablet, Etc.
This is pretty interesting and does make sense and I think we can all relate to this one, again depending on how much time you spend with y...
Using BitCoin Blockchain Technology, Next Up To Secure Medical Records?
This is interesting and banks are just barely trying to get into this themselves with using the technology in the financial area so waste no...
Woman in New Jersey Gets 3 Years in Jail for 500K Of Fraudulent Insurance Claims-Don’t Try This At Home, Health Insurers Only Ones Allowed To Commit Fraud , Not You
I read this story and it’s hardly news worthy and I’m not saying I approve of fraud by any means, but look at the dollar amount? The woman ...