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“Captive Media”–Advertising Has No Limits - PTV - Wee and Pee Patrol– Ads and Games at the Urinal– And Send Your “Clever Dick” Scores to Twitter
This is correct and I do have to say the company picked the right name as when you have to go, that is if you are a male, you get ads ab...
HCSC Parent Company of Blue Cross in Illinois Hires Special Agent from Chicago FBI Office As VP To Head Up Fraud Detail
What else can you say other than the battle on fraud is getting serious these days. Nobody likes fraud and perhaps with his expertise they ...
The Carl Icahn School of Medicine And the Icahn Genomics Institute at Mount Sinai? He Has Pledged $200 Million to the School
I don’t know about you and the gift is surely a very good thing, but there’s just something about the name Icahn and a Medical School that j...
NBA (National Basketball Association) Gets an EHR and a PHR From Cerner Called “HealthAthlete”
This is a cloud based system to where both doctors and trainers will have access and in case of moving to another team, well of course their...
Physicist Elected to House of Representatives, Some of His Technology is Used in the Big Collider at CERN–Hopefully This is the Start of a New Trend..Bill Foster
I wasn’t kidding in the title here and if the news we have had the last two years doesn’t speak for that, I don’t know what does. He says w...
4 Dead and 17 Hurt When Texas Veterans Parade Float is Hit By a Freight Train
This is just so sad to be having a parade for the veterans and have a train hit the float. There were 2 floats and the first one went over ...
Cook Medical Gets FDA Approval for Zilver PTX Drug Eluting Stent for the Treatment of Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD)
The FDA has approved Cook Medical’s Zilver® PTX®, the first drug-eluting stent (DES) for treating peripheral arterial disease (PAD) in ...
Doctors Without Borders Working On Their First US Mission in the United States After Hurricane Sandy
No this is not a 3rd world country where the group normally volunteers it’s right here in the New York and New Jersey areas. They went to w...
Blue Cross in California Automatically Opts Doctors In for Insurance Exchange Participation And Reimbursement Looks To Be Around 30% Less Than They Receive Now For Individual Policies - Employer Provided Insurance Is Not Affected
This was from the CMA advising doctors on the progress with negotiating contracts with insurers to provide “Exchange Coverage”. Well busine...
Med-Tech Start Up Company in Minnesota Feels the Effect of Sandy As Their FDA Meeting Was Postponed And Could Take Up to 90 Days To Reschedule And They Are Very Low on Cash
This is a company that is very low on cash and the meaning derived from this story is the fact that it is expensive to bring a product to m...
Man Pees on Pregnancy Test Stick And Finds Out He Has Testicular Cancer
The man pees on the test stick and it shows positive, but this does not mean he is pregnant of all things:) He posts it on the web and the...
The Institute for Health Conference In Beverly Hills 2012 and A Visit to MMRGlobal Discussing MMR Pro Systems
Occasionally I get out from behind the desk and every I do I wonder why I don’t do this more often:) My first stop today was to attend ...
Allscripts States They Are Considering Sale to Third Party–Follow the Code Technologies To Think About Caradigm As An Educated Speculation Being A Potential Match
It seems like it’s time to talk about Allscripts again. Back before the company purchased Eclipsys there was work done between Microsoft an...
Humana Joins the Health IT Business With the Purchase of Certify–Software Platform for HIE Information Exchange For Medical Records
Humana is a little later to the game with technology purchases as United has been doing it for years and made big profits with their algorit...
FDA Approves Xeljanz From Pfizer for the Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis in Pill Format
The treatment is a twice a day pill and the competition right now from Abbott is an injectable drug, Humira. Just because it is ...
FDA Commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg Scheduled to Testify Before Lawmakers on NECC Meningitis Infections
The House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee and the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will both be hold...
Excise Taxing the Data Sellers–Nobody’s Supporting the US IT Infrastructure, Especially In Times of Disaster-Companies Have Probably Made Money Off Selling Scraped Data of Those Hurt in the Wake of “Sandy”
Nobody likes taxes but it’s a topic up for discussion all the time. Mining and selling of consumer data is so engrained in the current worl...
City of Houston New Health Insurance Plan Not Saving Money, Costing More–It’s Going to be Hard To Save Money With Health Insurance As Economics Change and Financial Algorithms Continue to Shift Money
This is just one example and there will be more and yes there are obvious areas where savings can be had, but we’re getting down close to th...
American Hospital Association Files Suit Against HHS and CMS Over 3rd Party Audits Disputing Inpatient and Outpatient Documentation Parameters–Maybe Tired of Swapping Spit Over Payment Algorithms
When you read this, what’s the first thought I think of, attorneys and legal interpretations. You reach a point to where you can go back an...
Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert Are Back and Recapping “Sandy” and Give Out Some Well Deserved Recognition–Namely the NYU Nurses for One
These are great videos and done well with recognition and humor. We have seen the images all week on the two cities and the Daily Show show...
A Few Beers, a Moustache and A Cause Is Born–Where in the World Did Movember Come From…
Have you seen that world floating around the web and wonders where in the world did this word come fr...
