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And So It Starts With Funded Health Insurance Communities to Help the Poor and Obtain A Lot More Behavior Data to Mine and Sell For United Healthcare From the Participants…
And So It Starts With Funded Health Insurance Communities to Help the Poor and Obtain A Lot More Behavior Data to Mine and Sell For United Healthcare From the Participants…

If you have read here for a while there have been several posts about United Healthcare investments in low income housing and this one is now building an entire community around “services” funded by those paying rent in an apartment building owned by United Healthcare.  Sure a community clinic is a …

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23Feb2016


IBM Acquires Truven Analytics–Excess Scoring & Data Selling Of US Consumers Continues to Grow–Unlicensed And the Dangerous Quantitated Hype Progresses To Further Deny Access
IBM Acquires Truven Analytics–Excess Scoring & Data Selling Of US Consumers Continues to Grow–Unlicensed And the Dangerous Quantitated Hype Progresses To Further Deny Access

Fortune put it right out in their article on why IBM was purchasing Truven Analytics, for the data.  When companies acquire more data we all pretty much may know what goes next, more “big data” scoring and selling with consumer data.  I’ve been writing about this now for around 4 years or so and it …

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20Feb2016


Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center EHR Hacked And Being Held for Ransom..
Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center EHR Hacked And Being Held for Ransom..

Update:  2-27-2016  It was reported today via the LA Times, the hospital paid $17,000 in bit coins so they got a deal it seems, or the amount reported initially was too large?  They are up and going again and had tech folks help them through it.  I’m surprised it took so long to get out as it ha…

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17Feb2016


Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center McKesson EHR Hacked And Hospital Data Being Held for Ransom..
Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center McKesson EHR Hacked And Hospital Data Being Held for Ransom..

I’m surprised it took so long to get out as it happened a week ago.  It’s been down for 7 days and the FBI is involved as well as the Los Angeles police.  Some patients are being turned away.  9000 bitcoins is the price demanded to give the hospital back the “key” codes to open the system back up. …

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12Feb2016


St. Joseph Healthcare in Southern California Becoming a “Nurse Next Door” Franchisee-Acquiring 26 Locations With Option for Another 12–Their Current Private Home Care Business To Be Transitioned To This Model
St. Joseph Healthcare in Southern California Becoming a “Nurse Next Door” Franchisee-Acquiring 26 Locations With Option for Another 12–Their Current Private Home Care Business To Be Transitioned To This Model

This is interesting and hospitals are under real pressure today to avoid re-admissions as they can be penalized by CMS. The folks that work for the hospital providing this service will now become employees of the franchise location it appears.  The company is located in Vancouver, Canada and has ju…

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10Feb2016


Index and License Data Sellers, Step One Needed for Any Consumer Privacy Efforts to Exist - Spurious Correlations and Flawed Data Risk Assessments Thrive To Erroneously Deny Access
Index and License Data Sellers, Step One Needed for Any Consumer Privacy Efforts to Exist - Spurious Correlations and Flawed Data Risk Assessments Thrive To Erroneously Deny Access

It’s been a while since I hit this one but since last time, of course, things are getting worse out there.  With prediction tools and apps being all the rage today, their reliability and accuracy are not always there.  Before the word “prediction” took over, we used to have words like “trending” and…

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07Feb2016


Hospital CEO and Two Physicians Arrested In Prescription Pain Killer Distribution Ring..
Hospital CEO and Two Physicians Arrested In Prescription Pain Killer Distribution Ring..

Geez this has to be a black eye on the community to have the CEO involved in this, who I imagine will no longer be the CEO if not already removed.  Over 15,000 prescriptions for pain killers written for the CEO?  I think he would be dead if he took all those pain killers over the 3 year period so ye…

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05Feb2016


United Files Lawsuit Against HHS/CMS–Doesn’t Want to Pay Their Portion of the Risk Fiddled $70 Billion Said Medicare Advantage Insurer Fraud
United Files Lawsuit Against HHS/CMS–Doesn’t Want to Pay Their Portion of the Risk Fiddled $70 Billion Said Medicare Advantage Insurer Fraud

This has been kicking around out there since Whistleblower lawsuits were filed. Initially Humana was the first target and between United and Humana they have the most at stake here because they have most covered by Medicare Advantage Plans.  This goes back to the Medicare risk assessment formula and…

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03Feb2016
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