He was no longer able to make the big payments on his house
in Phoenix and the jury found him guilty of setting his home on fire in order to cash in on the insurance. This appears from what everyone is saying to be suicide in the courtroom and as others are saying this may end up being a book or a movie as he was quite the person with his extravagant lifestyle and even climbed Mount Everest.
It is wild when you watch the video as it does appear that he did take something but toxicology reports when done will tell the story I think. He went into convulsions and you watch the video below and see what you think. It was in 2009 that he set his house on fire. The video is a bit graphic. BD
"Burning Man" Michael Marin died after his "medical emergency" in the courtroom yesterday, which came after a jury handed down a guilty verdict in Marin's arson case.
Fox 10 had its camera on Marin's face as the verdict came in, and it sure looks like he put something in his mouth before he started having an apparent seizure and fell unconscious in the courtroom.
CPR was performed on Marin before he was transported to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
A court spokesman said Marin was transported to a hospital after he collapsed, and Judge Bruce Cohen ruled that "footage of [Marin's] medical treatment" could not be aired, but thanks to Fox 10, there's footage of what happened before that medical treatment was needed.
http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2012/06/michael_marin_burning_man_may.php
and take a look at what’s happening with Kinect and healthcare was represented well. Dr. Crounse from Microsoft was present and introduced one new Kinect technology I had not seen yet but it looks like there’s some serious work going on here with using Kinect with privacy as a monitoring tool. You can also 
moved into these key positions the content we hear from the technology areas has certainly improved and not that the former executives did a bad job by any means, but we are now hearing a “more focused” group with actual “hands on” backgrounds and it makes a difference. Both are working on changing the “government culture” and we know what that has been in the past. Parks speaks too about the “stifled” atmosphere that has existed and the talent that has not been either used or exposed in government and he is working to bring a lot of their ideas and methodologies to fruition, in other words let the folks with the talent and ideas function to a greater capacity to make a difference and the talent exists in all government agencies. BD 
have his hand in at least a little technology, this maybe. IT Departments are an easy target for just about anything and sometimes they are at fault an sometimes not. End users usually hate them as they can’t give them everything they want and some still think it’s Burger King where you can have it your way. 
Most of the time though they go off without a hitch. Healthcare software has “glitches” too and these are systems that go through some rigid certification processes to work, so you never know when some code comes up that needs work. When you upgrade though you have new code and it has to be tested as well so not knowing all the details it’s hard to say whether or not an upgrade is the answer but all do upgrade at some point. BD 
for overactive bladder on Thursday, boosting the Japanese drugmaker's foothold in the market for the condition. Mirabegron, the first drug in its class, works by activating a protein receptor in bladder muscles that relaxes them and helps the bladder fill and store urine. The pill is already approved in Japan. 
I do have to say I found the ruling interesting and overall good as when you look at a repeal, gosh think of the mess of “unknowns” it would have created if repealed. We live in the world of the unknown today and when you stop and think about this, why do you think predictive algorithms are so popular..inquiring minds want to know so they can adjust their business models, but some of these models are flawed too, but that’s a story for a different day as the science of predictions will probably never be perfected in my lifetime. Insurers know the money involved in changing IT infrastructures to be law compliant and as in the example below, they can also use this to publish something that would be popular with the American pubic as United and others did. Do you see this as a negative, of course not. 
with all of this as they have been doing predictive algorithms and business models long before most others caught wind of it and the person credited with creating much of the healthcare reform laws at HHS is now sitting on their payroll. In addition, don’t lose sight of the fact that insurers are bidding on the administration of both Medicare and Medicaid contracts, so they make money there if a state or other entity awards them a contract. 
Nobody likes taxes but again until more is written here and the IT business models put into place to run it, we don’t know yet. It’s almost like a judgment of sorts as getting it is one thing, but collecting it is yet another issue. This means new IT infrastructure to put the “algorithms” in place to handle this on a large scale as well, so more “algo men” are definitely needed to pursue this tax business model and structure it so it works and we have “accurate” results rather than “desired” results for profit only. The carriers have already modeled accepting pre-existing conditions and looked for other areas to make up the difference in what is lost in one area to look for gains in other areas of business. 
Actually I would like to see our lawmakers come up to speed and use some big data capabilities when making laws, it would help them. Perhaps instead of generating laws in committees as it is done now, reverse it. Have a full open floor of both and have everyone query and get their information first, and the go off to committees as we would at least have everyone starting with the same figures and information. Anybody need a wake up call in this area..read the link below: 
when the processes were changed. Originally one drug was being studied but then the clinical investigator decided to compare 2 drugs and at that point patient consent was required, but they didn’t do it. The FDA wants a plan submitted to correct this type of action from happening again and the first plan was not sufficient. 
concern here is the similarity with the drug fen-phen that was pulled from the market as it had potential heart issues and side effects. It’s a gradual loss and in trials people lost about 6 percent of their body weight after a year. I don’t know, that’s doesn’t sound like a lot and I think I could do better with teaching myself when to push away from the table or have my jaw wired shut if I were needing to lose weight. I think the jury is still somewhat out on this one until it is actually prescribed and we get more information. BD 
hospital was not there and they didn’t understand the complexities of how a hospital medical record system worked. You can read where the hospital only has 2 IT people and I can tell a story from the past to where I had a hospital as an account where there was few more folks but nobody knew how to install a SQL server and thus I was contracted to do so. SQL server install is pretty matter of fact in today’s world of business, so I can clearly say from reading this that they were not prepared. 
and maybe they will see some progress and get their system installed. The hospital didn’t appear to understand that the systems are modular with features you can either add or not add and the price goes up with each addition as you build the systems as you need them. The case is now in arbitration and I hope it has a happy ending somewhere along the line. CIOs and IT departments face this all the time with unexpected dollars that are needed and it’s not always the medical record software as hardware upgrades and so forth creep in there too. 
and about the time I left the industry, this trend was already beginning and it used to be where the shipments were created on the platform or dock of the common carrier and now it has grown to where the common carriers and parcel carriers have built facilities to do it. Last year UPS reported a number of these facilities and when you continue to read further with the article in the WSJ, it’s growing. 
whether it should be used for screening or not. This test appears to add some additional decision making information if any actions or treatments are needed/discussed. Last year at UCLA a new PSA testing format was developed called the A+PSA test so perhaps with both tests more decision making information can be obtained with fewer false positives. BD 
corporate offices moved there. This seems to be a slow shut down that they hope to have done by the end of 2013 and the facility is huge. It somewhat reminds me of the big Pfizer facility in New England that was closed not too long ago. A couple months ago to answer the call for affordable drugs in India they are reducing the cost of a couple cancer drugs to stay in the market and not be outsold by generics. BD 
someone moved on it as there is no other federal agency that needs big data and intelligence analytics worse. By contrast you can 
“emotions” index and you could get a real education if you read up here on what’s going on with algorithms and queries. Gee, what if we bought into this in healthcare? Now that’s a scary thought indeed. Reuters is not the only one into this by any means. 
In healthcare we certify medical records and the software goes though some pretty rigid testing, but it happens there too with software updates being needed before some doctors could collect their stimulus money. This was big old GE that had to create a fix. 
of the DNA Snatchers of the future and now it looks like the future is here, or at least Madonna is not taking any chances. Private investigators soon may take on a whole new identify. As we have all read your DNA can easily be picked up off a glass where you drank some water, a beverage at a bar and so on. 
ethically doing business, but as you read in the news, we are all of sudden finding a entire slew of folks who are not, surprised? You shouldn’t be as this has been going on a long time but as folks getter smarter about the methodologies that have been used for a number of years, it’s all coming out. Sure someone can like their business algorithms but if ethics are compromised in the act then what do we have? Maybe I should ask someone on Wall Street about that while I’m at it. What started all of this..a stolen notebook that shows their lack of ethics and HIPAA violations. 
but nine notebooks were stolen so nine times the potential exposure possibly, depending on what they were carrying around. The Vice President of the company left a non encrypted laptop with around 24k patients' information on the computer, gee and we wonder why executives are kind of useless today, but you could almost be he preaches to employees NOT to do this:) This was also Chapter 28 of my Attack of the Killer Algorithm series. 
disease (PAD) and if you are not familiar with PAD (peripheral arterial disease) , here’s a couple back links and an interview I did with Cook Medical a while back with Rob Lyles with Cook Medical.. CLU occurs when PAD goes to the worst case and leads to amputation to where 25% of the patients die due to the procedures. Let’s face it nobody wants to lose a leg. Back in 2009 I first spoke with Rob Lyles from the peripheral intervention division. 
cross arterial blockages. Individuals1 and single centers