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CMS Medicare Proposing More Data Selling of Both Private and Medicare Patient Claim Data - A New Dignity And Privacy Attack on Both Consumers and Doctors
CMS Medicare Proposing More Data Selling of Both Private and Medicare Patient Claim Data - A New Dignity And Privacy Attack on Both Consumers and Doctors

Just when you think it can’t get any worse it does.  If you read here often enough then you know I am a privacy advocate and have had an informal campaign going for a few years on indexing and licensing data sellers, that take your data, without your permission or with a legal statement that you agr…

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30Jan2016


United Healthcare Buys Helios Workman’s Comp PBM and Their Other Related Businesses
United Healthcare Buys Helios Workman’s Comp PBM and Their Other Related Businesses

Here’s another purchase, Helios,  and the big focus here is the pharmacy benefit management.  It was just last year that United/OptumRX bought Catamaran.  What’s interesting about that purchase is that all the folks insured by Cigna now all have OptumRX as their pharmacy benefit manager.  Nothing li…

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29Jan2016


Silicon Valley Is At It Again Confusing the Public With Calling Risk Assessments a Form of A Diagnosis Tool…
Silicon Valley Is At It Again Confusing the Public With Calling Risk Assessments a Form of A Diagnosis Tool…

This should be ruled trickery as that’s what it really is.  When you read the snip from the press release on Neurotrack, this is a “risk assessment” tool and not a diagnosis tool as they would like you to think.  This is software and there’ no genomic technology at all here in looking for markers.  …

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27Jan2016


Silicon Valley Venture Capitalists Funding Orwellian Software Apps For Medication Compliance-Obnoxious Pill Selfies–Time To Think About Boycotting Some VC Portfolio Companies Right Now…
Silicon Valley Venture Capitalists Funding Orwellian Software Apps For Medication Compliance-Obnoxious Pill Selfies–Time To Think About Boycotting Some VC Portfolio Companies Right Now…

I’ve complained about this here and there but this takes the hat.  When you dump out $12 million and on top of that get $7 Million from the NIH for software that is so Orwellian in nature, it’s time to speak up.  This is software you would not even wish on your mother to use, as people don’t work th…

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24Jan2016


CMS Sanctions Cigna-No More Selling Any New Medicare Advantage Policies Until Algo Problems Denying Medical Coverage and Prescription Denials Are Fixed
CMS Sanctions Cigna-No More Selling Any New Medicare Advantage Policies Until Algo Problems Denying Medical Coverage and Prescription Denials Are Fixed

As we may all know Cigna is working to be acquired by Anthem, which would be a huge acquisition.  As you may or may not know, Cigna’s pharmacy benefit manager now is OptumRX, the PBM subsidiary of United Healthcare.  This occurred when Optum purchased Catamaran PBM in 2015 and both have been merged …

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23Jan2016


Zeke Emanuel Joins Venture Capital Group–Will He Still Be Writing US Healthcare Policy at the CAP Think Tank?
Zeke Emanuel Joins Venture Capital Group–Will He Still Be Writing US Healthcare Policy at the CAP Think Tank?

I think all may remember Dr. Zeke Emanuel writing the famous post on the New York Times that basically said he wants to die at age 75 and further insinuated that all of us have served out our usefulness at that age.  A little bit more about Zeke is he also has been writing US Healthcare policy at th…

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14Jan2016


AMA Decides to Buddy Up with the Silicon Valley Data Sellers–Investing In A Healthcare Innovation Company, Yeah It’s Just More Flipping Code To Be Blunt…
AMA Decides to Buddy Up with the Silicon Valley Data Sellers–Investing In A Healthcare Innovation Company, Yeah It’s Just More Flipping Code To Be Blunt…

What a difference a President makes.  Last president of the AMA seemed much more interested in doctors and their work and now we have a shift back to data selling and analytics again.  AMA makes money licensing CPT codes that are used throughout the healthcare industry as well as distributing data b…

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11Jan2016


So What’s the Future With Guns and Healthcare? Will Doctors be Required to Do “Gun Risk Assessments” On Patients Next?
So What’s the Future With Guns and Healthcare? Will Doctors be Required to Do “Gun Risk Assessments” On Patients Next?

Of course we had to ask this question as with complexities, if a doctor should decide to turn information over to the FBI on a patient, there will be a need to substantiate reasons of course.  What even makes this even more interesting is the fact that none of the medical records can be used.  That’…

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07Jan2016
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