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NYC Hospital Falling Between the Profitability Algorithms as Bronx Obstetricians Have Been Threatened With Non Renewal on Malpractice

As the article states below, 8 of the 13 received letters, so do we now have “cherry picking” starting for mal practice insurance like it exists for health insurance beginning? The 8 doctors specifically deal with high risk deliveries so go figure...

Published Wed, Mar 03 2011 7:43 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, Doctors, Algorithms, New York, Bronx, malpractice, obgyn, babies, Medical Liability Mutual Insurance

Blue Cross Transaction Fees Go To Court in Michigan-Contracted Administrator Services-Algorithms For “Self Insured” Claims

It seems we are beginning to dig in to those transaction fees that are charged on medical claim processing and it may not be an easy one to understand and get to the bottom on some of these. When a medical claim is processed, it is run through several...

Published Wed, Mar 03 2011 11:31 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Insurance, My Commentaries, health insurance, Health IT, Blue Cross, Algorithms, Michigan, Contracts, healthcare reform, administrators

Does Every Payroll Service Need an EHR? ADP Payroll Bought One-AdvancedMDs-More Integrated Business Algorithms

Mergers and acquisitions continue in healthcare and perhaps we will see more like this one? If you have not caught on yet, the financial side is kind of ruling today with acquisitions being on steroids. Part of the reason here too is...

Published Tue, Mar 03 2011 5:51 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Medical Records, EHR, Health IT, Business Intelligence, Benefits, Data, Algorithms, ADP, payroll services, Advanced MDs

IBM Watson Did Get a Chance to Go To Congress-Should be a Permanent Home For Greater Intelligence for Creating Laws

This is funny as 2 weeks ago I made a post about Congress being a needier group for IBM Watson’s talent, more so than healthcare right now and it turns out it did get to visit, but I think it should should reside there permanently. Again, Watson...

Published Tue, Mar 03 2011 2:46 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Computers, healthcare, Radiology, Congress, Business Intelligence, Politics, Algorithms, SEC, IBM, Watson, knowledge

HHS announces $200 Million in State Grants To Help Fight Health Insurance Rate Hikes-Time to Apply and Buy Some More Business Intelligence Health IT Reporting Algorithms

Back in June of 2010 HHS announced $51 Million in grants and that was not enough it appears. This is a tough battle as health insurers come back with their business intelligence generated reports that substantiate their demands for premiums increase...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2011 8:53 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, My Commentaries, health insurance, Health IT, Education, Congress, Business Intelligence, Algorithms, United HealthCare, Venture Capital, health reform, balance

NIH Offers Mobile Health Workshop for Behavioral Science With Mobile Health Algorithms And Formulas-We Want To Know Your Thoughts and What You May Do (Grin)

Well here it is now from the government. A couple years ago I started posting about behavioral health and mostly relative to insurance companies. They use data to project risk and keep cost down with their algorithms. Guess what, they...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2011 7:18 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, privacy, Heatlhcare, NIH, Intelligence, wireless, Algorithms, participatory Sensing, business, mobile heatlh, mHeatlh, devices that record data, predictive behavior

Privacy on the Internet–Tracking User History With Cookies and Flash Cookies And More-Use a Program Like CCleaner to Fight Back

Everyone is marketing to try and predict and of course in healthcare this is prevalent too and “why they market their ass off”. Tracking and snooping is part of marketing if you have not figured that out yet today. In the video below even...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2011 4:17 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, EMR, drugs, privacy, EHR, Pharma, PHR, Prescriptions, data bases, Business Intelligence, Data Mining, personal health record, Algorithms, formulas, CCleaner, Flash cookies, do not track

Relying on Experts When They May Not Exist–Many Intelligent and Smart People But Do We Have Misconceived Paradigms-TED

I thought this was a well thought out presentation and difficult to give no less too.I feel she does make some very good points as what and who we designate as experts and wealth is not always the dividing line here, like we sometimes think it may be...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2011 4:42 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, My Commentaries, Heatlhcare, Intelligence, Algorithms, TED, decisions, perceptions, dangerous, Noreena Hertz, doctors nurses, paradigns

Health Train Express Says “Don’t Shoot the Messenger”–The Medical Quack-Thanks!

First of all I would like to say thanks to Gary Levin in Riverside for viewing me as a messenger as that’s why I try to do with combining some modern day mathematical processes (algorithms) that work with healthcare today, both the good and maybe not...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2011 2:35 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Congress, Politics, Algorithms, messenger, Health Train Express, Medical bloggers, karma

New Way to Apply For Health Insurance–Crowd Source Insurance Applications But Apply For Each Family Member Separately-Risk Algorithm Advice From Insurance Broker

Ok reading the title above one might wonder what’s up with this? This is an article here that offers some tips when applying for health insurance and this is directed for those who can afford it . Firs of all to avoid telling any fibs on an...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2011 9:23 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, health insurance, Congress, Heatlhcare, Risk Management, Algorithms, Laws, applications, private insurance, RSA

Medicare Charges More than 100 Doctors, Nurses and Physical Therapists With Medicare Fraud In Multi State Round Up

This is good to see some progress being made. Technology will eventually help recognize some of these patterns too with running reports and queries to look for items that fall outside the normal realms. One example in this article shows one...

Published Fri, Feb 02 2011 12:34 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, medicare, medical billing, Fraud, Doctors, Investigation, FBI, Algorithms, nurses, DOJ, crime

President Obama Meeting with Tech Industry Leaders–CEOs and Some of the Smartest CEOs (Algo Men) Who Write Code

If you have not seen the news the President is meeting with some of the brightest leaders in technology today. I have been saying this for a couple years now at the Medical Quack that intelligence and decisions in healthcare are being derived from...

Published Thu, Feb 02 2011 4:45 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Business Intelligence, Code, Algorithms, formulas, Banks, Steve Jobs, President Obama, Larry Ellison, jobs, JPMorgan, Chief of Staff

US Medical Device Companies Look to Europe and Other Countries for Approval and Sales-Some Not Even Selling Here While We Over Inflate Value on Social Algorithms

The approval process too has been hit by economics. Due to the money needed to be spent for FDA approval, some companies simply don’t have the money to go through the approval process, depending on how long, trials, etc. are required. Device companies...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2011 11:03 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, healthcare, Social Networks, Medical Devices, Venture Capitalists, Money, Investments, Budget, Algorithms, Europe, value, balance, jobs

CMS Head Dr. Don Berwick Addresses the Ways and Means Committee of the House (Luddites Included)

Here we go again with the impossible quest for the perfect answer and there isn’t one but we seem to have those stuck in the 70s still asking the same types of questions and kind of showing some type of juvenile type responses that I would not expect...

Published Fri, Feb 02 2011 11:51 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, medicare, Congress, CMS, Politics, Algorithms, Medicare Advantage, healthcare reform, ObamaCare, Non participants, Don Berwick, grilling

Meet the New Government Start Up Agency-The Financial Protection Bureau Of the US Treasury

I don’t have to do too much explaining as to why this new agency exists. Transparency and not fooling the consumer with complicated small print and “algorithms” of computation that also take advantage are the name of the game here. The web...

Published Tue, Feb 02 2011 1:06 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Education, Government, Transparency, White House, Algorithms, Elizabeth Warren, fine print, Consumer Financial Bureau

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