Browse by Tags

HHS Publishing Insurance Company Denial Rates on Healthcare.Gov–Consumer “Click Wars” Like the MDs Have Had for Years With EHR Systems–Software and Algorithms

If you have not been to the site, it s worth looking at and there’s one item in common that patients will have that is the same with doctors using medical records – too many clicks to drill down to the information, but over all it’s better than what was...

Published Sun, Oct 10 2010 4:40 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, health insurance, HHS, Patients, Pricing, Certification, Algorithms, websites, consumers, Healthcare.gov, click wars

The Story Behind The Building of Healthcare. Gov - 90 Day Creation, Help From Twitter and the Silicon Valley Made It Possible

The website designer was found via Twitter, so any of you that don’t take value in what Twitter can do to connect, think again. Most of the people on the project had been on the committee for quite a while. Tech Crunch digs in and gets a...

Published Fri, Aug 08 2010 3:56 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, health insurance, Twitter, HHS, Patients, Pricing, Certification, Algorithms, websites, consumers, Silicon Valley, Healthcare.gov, web site

Healthcare.Gov Site Opens To Assist Consumers in Finding Health Insurance – Video and Preview

the site looks nice and very user friendly, compared to most of the sites we see from the government. There’s a video below that explains how the site works and there are additional tabs with information across the top. As mentioned in my...

Published Thu, Jul 07 2010 9:23 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, health insurance, HHS, Patients, Pricing, Certification, Algorithms, websites, consumers, Healthcare.gov

HealthCare.gov Portal Set to Launch July 1, 2010 To Help Consumers Research Policies – Insurer Proprietary Algorithms Will Not Allow for Pricing Information to be Included

This is a big feat in indeed to meet the short deadlines of aggregating all the information with various insurance carriers to one portal site to hopefully make the process of shopping for insurance easier. Initially pricing will not be included...

Published Wed, Jun 06 2010 1:15 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, health insurance, HHS, Patients, Pricing, Certification, Algorithms, websites, consumers, Healthcare.gov

Ho Hum More Health IT Certification Rules Coming Up – Get an EHR There’s One on Every Street Corner

This is not to say that systems need to conform and have certain interoperability formats to provide physicians with a tool where they are not “taken” on their investment, but it’s been spoken many times that the insurers are the ones that benefit more...

Published Wed, Mar 03 2010 3:47 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, microsoft, health insurance, Business Intelligence, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, AMA, software, Fraud, Certification, Algorithms, United HealthCare, payers, Oracle, Ingenix, Dell, Medical Banking, ONC

NHS Hospital Finds Patients Neglected – Managers Preoccupied with Meeting Targets and Cutting Costs

I think the same sort of phenomenon might be happening here in the US too. When you stop and think about how busy healthcare facilities and hospitals are today it can happen. Most of our leaders don’t understand how technology is impacting...

Published Mon, Mar 03 2010 1:53 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, health insurance, Health IT, Congress, Business Intelligence, software, Certification, Algorithms, healthcare reform, Algorithmic centric bills

The Silence is Deafening With Meaningful Use – Start Spelling Some of This Out In Algorithmic Formats

One thing to be said for algorithmic formats is that there would a bit less text to deal with and less money going out for legal advice. Publish the algorithms that need to be met and put them out there, of course along with some text. If...

Published Thu, Nov 11 2009 8:51 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, software, Certification, Algorithms, healthcare reform, Meaningful Use, Blumenthal, Department of Algorithms

The Algorithm Report: HealthCare and Other Related Instances

Ok, everybody who has read this blog for the last 2 years has had to learn this one word, algorithms. Now I even have it on the middle of the page so everyone can understand how it relates to many of the posts I have on the blog. In the news today...

Published Wed, Sep 09 2009 3:17 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, EMR, health insurance, EHR, Health IT, Congress, Business Intelligence, Obama, CCHIT, Certification, Algorithms, healthcare reform, Algorithmic centric bills

The Health Insurance Racket and The Billionaires for WealthCare

Media events on healthcare continue to heat up. First off we have a video from the group Sick for Profit.Com discussing some recent Cigna events and include some excerpts from Wendell Potter. Next we have a group called the Billionaires...

Published Mon, Sep 09 2009 3:38 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, EMR, health insurance, EHR, Health IT, Congress, Business Intelligence, software, Obama, CCHIT, Certification, Algorithms, healthcare reform, Algorithmic centric bills

Is Distraction Getting in the Way of HealthCare Reform?

From what I have been seeing lately, it certainly has that appearance to me. Yes, the president is driving this matter home and sticking to his guns, as we HAVE TO AFFORD healthcare reform, but how we get there is the big heated debate. Yesterday...

Published Sun, Sep 09 2009 10:04 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, EMR, health insurance, EHR, Health IT, Congress, Business Intelligence, software, Obama, CCHIT, Certification, Algorithms, healthcare reform, Algorithmic centric bills

Syndication

Recent Posts

Tags

Archives