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Microsoft Launches the “Smart Band” To Work With the Microsoft Health Platform–Much More than Just A Fitness Band
Microsoft Launches the “Smart Band” To Work With the Microsoft Health Platform–Much More than Just A Fitness Band

Here’s the answer to the Apple Healthkit and watch and does quite a bit and the video below from tells you all about it with a hands on beginning with the unboxing.  It was announced last night and it’s already in the stores.  This was nice and not having to wait.  It comes in 3 sizes, small, medium…

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30Oct2014


Health Insurance Companies Exceed Predictions on Profits Hitting All Time Records For the 3rd Quarter of 2014–While The Data and Information Systems Decline In Consumer Value As Flawed Data Is On the Rise..
Health Insurance Companies Exceed Predictions on Profits Hitting All Time Records For the 3rd Quarter of 2014–While The Data and Information Systems Decline In Consumer Value As Flawed Data Is On the Rise..

We are seeing this in other industries too but nowhere is it more visible than with health insurance.  It’s been said many times over on the web that insurance companies profit on complexities and if you look at the past year that seems to hold very true.  Many do not understand their policies today…

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30Oct2014


Feds File Lawsuit Against Honeywell For Tactics Used With Company Wellness Program With Mandated Screening of Employees and Spouses…
Feds File Lawsuit Against Honeywell For Tactics Used With Company Wellness Program With Mandated Screening of Employees and Spouses…

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in response to employee complaints filed a lawsuit against Honeywell for their tactics and the company says the testing and screenings are voluntary but the penalties that could hit is what the problem is and penalties can go up as high s $4000.00.  This…

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29Oct2014


Here Come the Dead Doctors Again Located In Flawed Directories–Now It’s From Insurance Companies Who Can’t Produce Semi Accurate Listings And They Pay These People…
Here Come the Dead Doctors Again Located In Flawed Directories–Now It’s From Insurance Companies Who Can’t Produce Semi Accurate Listings And They Pay These People…

Ok so now we are at the top of the heap when insurers themselves can’t produce accurate listings, but …..they pay most of them so I would think if anyone could get it right insurers would, well that would be wrong.  In this article they examined dermatologists but I would guess there’s not a lot v…

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29Oct2014


Health Exchange Patients Have Trouble Finding Doctors Who Accept Their Insurance–Reimbursement Makes A Huge Difference
Health Exchange Patients Have Trouble Finding Doctors Who Accept Their Insurance–Reimbursement Makes A Huge Difference

You can read below what the insurers said in their comments.  Cigna and Aetna pay the doctors the same on whether or not the plan is sold on the exchange or not.  In California Aetna doesn’t sell any more individual policies any longer and before the exited last year they were already the lowest pay…

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29Oct2014


Pope Says God Did Not Create Algorithms, Mankind Does That And They Don’t Conflict With The Idea of Creation
Pope Says God Did Not Create Algorithms, Mankind Does That And They Don’t Conflict With The Idea of Creation

So there you have it, so when you see magical stuff on your computer screen, it was a human and not a magic wand that made everything happen.  He says the Big Bang theory doesn’t conflict with the creative intervention of God.  What he didn’t address are those who “sin” with their code for profit an…

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28Oct2014


HCA Holdings Buys CareNow Urgent Care Centers in Dallas Fort Worth Area of Texas
HCA Holdings Buys CareNow Urgent Care Centers in Dallas Fort Worth Area of Texas

60 urgent care centers were purchased.  In addition there’s a bit of competition in Texas going on right now too with Optum (United Healthcare) who has also opened up a couple urgent care centers.  Tenet also has their rebranded Urgent Care Centers named MedPost.  Big Boom With Hospital Stand Alon…

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28Oct2014


United Healthcare Under the Optum Subsidiary Buys Alere Health And All of Their Subsidiaries–”Too Big To Fail” Health Insurer Acquisitions Continue To Gain Additional Consumer Monitoring Assets…
United Healthcare Under the Optum Subsidiary Buys Alere Health And All of Their Subsidiaries–”Too Big To Fail” Health Insurer Acquisitions Continue To Gain Additional Consumer Monitoring Assets…

Alere is a consumer and professional medical diagnostic products maker and Optum will buy Alere Health and all of it’s subsidiaries to add to the army of subsidiaries Optum/United already owns.  United Healthcare has been hiding in plain sight for years scooping up one company after another and it’s…

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28Oct2014


Nurses From Hospital in Dallas Tell Their Story About Their Care For Thomas Eric Duncan Who Died of Ebola in the US–60 Minutes
Nurses From Hospital in Dallas Tell Their Story About Their Care For Thomas Eric Duncan Who Died of Ebola in the US–60 Minutes

This is good to hear this side as without the nurses and healthcare workers, nothing gets done.  Two emergency rooms talked about their reactions with the patient.  They also talk about their protective wear.  They were very frightened and went to work and took care of their patient.  The part of …

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26Oct2014


United Expands the “Cheap Hearing Aids” Program to Employers To Allow Workers to Buy Them–Subsidiary Watch
United Expands the “Cheap Hearing Aids” Program to Employers To Allow Workers to Buy Them–Subsidiary Watch

Here’s another United subsidiary you may or may not be aware of but they have been around since2011 and I wrote about them then.  In addition, the company Hi Health Innovations has also worked out a deal with for Veterans to be able to purchase their hearings aids.   Many who have Medicare Advantage…

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26Oct2014


CVS and Rite Aid To Stop Using Apple Pay and “Yes” It Circles Right Back To Corporations and Banks Making Money Selling And Collecting Data and Offering Ad Exposure..What Else?
CVS and Rite Aid To Stop Using Apple Pay and “Yes” It Circles Right Back To Corporations and Banks Making Money Selling And Collecting Data and Offering Ad Exposure..What Else?

This should come as no surprise and I kind of wondered myself when this would rear it’s ugly head being the privacy advocate this blog forced me to be:)  I say that as I never planned on being a privacy advocate but things happen and when you understand data mechanics logic and have spent over 20 ye…

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26Oct2014


Australian Surgeons Performed Break Through Transplant Surgery  “Dead Hearts”
Australian Surgeons Performed Break Through Transplant Surgery “Dead Hearts”

This is the first time in the world this has been with a heart that had stopped beating.  Normally hearts are removed from “brain dead” individuals but not in this case as a “box” has been created to contain and revive the heart to start beating again.  This is huge. There were two transplants done…

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26Oct2014


Verizon Wireless Packaging and Selling Subscriber Information - Acting As One Big Data Broker–Super Cookie Header Explanation
Verizon Wireless Packaging and Selling Subscriber Information - Acting As One Big Data Broker–Super Cookie Header Explanation

Jonathon Mayer, a computer scientist and lawyer at Stanford was kind enough to dig in and write up his explanation and he’s a smarter than me as a computer scientists and lawyer at Stanford.  I just included the image on his full report and and a couple lines that briefly tell you what he found out.…

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24Oct2014


“Ebola”..ZdoggMD Parody Song…(Like Lola From the Kinks)…
“Ebola”..ZdoggMD Parody Song…(Like Lola From the Kinks)…

This is great if you remember the song from the “Kinks” “Lola”..I don’t even think Dr. ZdoggMD is old enough to have to lived through it the first time:)  Ok so I’m feeling old when I hear this song.  The former hospitalist from Berkeley, now in Las Vegas keeps us all entertained for sure!  Pretty…

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23Oct2014


Ebola Vaccine Research Sat on the Shelf For 10 Years–Good Reason to Not Over Look NIH Funding As There Was No Money To Be Made for Pharma To Get Involved
Ebola Vaccine Research Sat on the Shelf For 10 Years–Good Reason to Not Over Look NIH Funding As There Was No Money To Be Made for Pharma To Get Involved

The vaccine was already to test and had performed on animals at a rate of 100%, so what took so long even now to bring this out? Researchers said in 2010 a product could be ready for licensing and it never happened.  Now it is being tested in humans with a very basics test for safety.   Things ha…

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23Oct2014


Head of the ONC Leaves to Move on to HHS As Acting Assistant Secretary Coupled With the Announcement of the Clinical Practices Initiative Funding For Those Physicians That Have Time To Participate In Additional Government Programs…
Head of the ONC Leaves to Move on to HHS As Acting Assistant Secretary Coupled With the Announcement of the Clinical Practices Initiative Funding For Those Physicians That Have Time To Participate In Additional Government Programs…

Well first of all there was the news that Dr. DeSalvo has left the ONC for a better job at HHS as Acting Assistant Secretary of Health and I have to say she might be a lot happier there as being a doctor, he knowledge and skills are right in there with working on tackling Ebola.  So far none of the …

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23Oct2014


Orthopedic Surgeon Talks About Data Mining, Privacy, Medical Records and the Importance of the Doctor-Patient Relationship
Orthopedic Surgeon Talks About Data Mining, Privacy, Medical Records and the Importance of the Doctor-Patient Relationship

Here’s a surgeon that’s in the know with data brokers.  He’s tuned in and knows how data can be used against you.  He talks how the data selling impacts reporting to the type of care patients get. If you read here often enough, you hear a lot about privacy.  He talks about not getting the full stor…

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23Oct2014
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