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Digital Illiterate GOP Senators Asking President to Withdraw Don Berwick Nomination-Back to the 8 Track Mentality

Here we go again, back to the soap operas and and attention getting commentaries. I am guessing once more, based on what I read here that we have a return of the 70s folks with 8 track tape values. Dr. Berwick has not even had enough time...

Published Thu, Mar 03 2011 5:54 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, medicare, Business Intelligence, CMS, Obama, Berwick, IBM Watson, Health IT. Donald Berwick, digital illiteracy, Senators

Blue Button Mobile Available for Veterans to Download and View Personal Health Records

Northrop Grumman has developed a mobile application called VA-214 whereby personal health records can remotely access MyHealthVet from an Android or iPhone. I have had a series of posts on this topic and you can read more and learn about the...

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

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, microsoft, medicare, PHR, VA, Medicaid, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, CMS, personal heatlh records, mHealth, Blue Button, Northrup Grumman

Department of Defense to Seed $500 Million For Companies to Develop Dual Use Technologies-“Collaboration Not Innovation” DOD Can’t Keep Pace With the Iphone

Well here you have it, an admittance of not being up to speed with technology and again this goes back to the prior administration and their neglect of technology with the “non participants”. The US Government is paying for this in almost every...

Published Thu, Feb 02 2011 7:30 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Windows Mobile, healthcare, Grants, Heatlh IT, CMS, DOD, Department of Defense, iPhone, pentagon, Silicon Valley, luddites

Northrop Grumman Debuts the National Health Data Data Base Repository From the Contract Awarded Last Year

The contract was announced last May, 2010, a contract worth $34 million. There are some good things happening here, like the comparison of duplicate payments and some potential fraud analysis. CMS Outsourcing Creation of “Meaningful Use” Database...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2011 1:23 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, health insurance, data bases, CMS, Doctors, Outsourcing, Data, Meaningful Use, infrastructure, Northrop Grumman, contractors

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

State of the Union Message Was Clearly About Technology and Healthcare For Survival-Blackstone CEO Thoughts Are Positive from Davos (Video)

This was probably the most unique State of the Union message that I have heard and nice to hear all of the technology mentioned including healthcare too. As I watch the camera span the members it was interesting to watch faces and reactions and...

Published Wed, Jan 01 2011 7:56 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, medicare, VA, Medicaid, CMS, White House, personal heatlh records, Davos, Blue Button, Blackstone, State of the Nation

Insurers Made $450 Million with Interest Income by Holding Medicare Funds for Around 46 Days Before Releasing Payment

One more finding from the Office of the Inspector General on how profits are being made and the 2 sides here conflict as far as if this would actually show a savings for Medicare if the time were slimmed down. The irritation I think is more of the...

Published Mon, Jan 01 2011 8:43 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, EMR, medicare, EHR, Claims, HHS, CMS, Non Profit, Algorithms, incentives, Wellpoint, Contracts, healthcare reform, Meaningful Use, shareholders, OIG, Office of the Inspector General

Update on Physician Compare Sites-One MD Reader Found CMS to be More Accurate

The CMS system is not without errors and as mentioned, this is the first run at it but a physician reader did his comparison and shared his findings. He said in his area at least he didn’t find any “dead” or “retired” doctors on the list, so that...

Published Wed, Jan 01 2011 10:19 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, drugs, healthcare, medicare, medical billing, Cancer, Oncology, CMS, Fraud, Orange County, Health Insuance, American Cancer Society, Treatment, Glen Justice, AVVO

CMS States Over 4,000 Providers Have Registered for EHR Medical Records Incentives-First Incentives Paid Out Last Week

The entire incentive package goes up to as high as $44,000 for Medicare and up to $63,000 from Medicaid for using electronic medical records. Hospitals of course stand to gain much in the way of incentives for their incentives. The longer...

Published Tue, Jan 01 2011 4:16 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Medical Records, medicare, Health IT, Medicaid, CMS, e-MDs, Doctors, Patients, stimulus, ARRA, HITECH, EHR incentive

Health Insurance Companies Not Supporting Repeal of Healthcare–They Don’t Want Big Expense of Algorithmic Data Resets Either As “Algos” Are Their Business Models

Here we go again talking about the expensive “data resets” that everybody in technology understands and gets but there’s some politicians out there that don’t seem to be able to digest that this is there and the expense behind it. Even Walgreens...

Published Mon, Jan 01 2011 6:07 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, healthcare, Medical Records, health insurance, Health IT, HHS, CMS, Doctors, Servers, HIT, healthcare reform, medical care, CIOs

Nation's First Physician Recipient of Health Records Incentive Payment Using e-MDs Medical Records in Oklahoma

If I am reading correctly the check was issued 2 days after registration began, and that’s fast service. The amount of the check as just over 42K for their use electronic medical records and the ability to show meaningful use. This is a small clinic...

Published Fri, Jan 01 2011 3:18 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Medical Records, medicare, Health IT, CMS, e-MDs, Doctors, Patients, stimulus, ARRA, HITECH, EHR incentive

HHS Insurance Oversight Office Change Will Now Be Part of Medicare-Lot of Algorithm Work Over Here with Monitoring Insurance

This is probably a good move so closer attention can be paid and Medicare as we all know is making up for a lot of lost time under the prior administration that didn’t seem to delegate any importance here as it went years without someone to run it. ...

Published Wed, Jan 01 2011 5:08 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, medicare, health insurance, HHS, CMS, Data, Algorithms, Mergers and Acquisitions, innovation, Berwick, subsidiary watch, Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, Angoff

Yahoo Search-Dead Doctor Listings and Flaws Alive and Well There too! Is Everybody on the Web Drinking the Flawed Data?

If you are a doctor you might check out and what is listed about yourself on the web as it appears someone out there has the key and dollars to the “master” data base here and is probably making a few million marketing it. It appears that even last...

Published Tue, Jan 01 2011 12:44 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, My Commentaries, drugs, healthcare, medicare, medical billing, Oncology, CMS, Fraud, Orange County, Health Insuance, Healthline, yahoo, Glen Justice, AVVO

Governor Schwarzenegger Appoints Members to California Board to Oversee Healthcare Reform

We are going to miss our governor when he leaves office and granted I may not have agreed with him 100% as nobody does that today, but overall he made some decent decisions and moves, especially when it comes to technology. I’m going to miss those “Tweetcast...

Published Sat, Jan 01 2011 9:37 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, health insurance, Health IT, Twitter, California, CMS, Government, healthcare reform, reform, Non participants, exchanges, Schwartzenegger

CMS Physician Compare Site-Same as Websites For Profit? Same MD Convicted of Medicare Fraud and Dead Chimney Doctor on the List

Well if you read the Medical Quack often enough you know that I have poked around these site a bit as I want to check for accuracy after finding my former doctor who had been dead for 7 years still listed. I think everyone got the word via this...

Published Thu, Dec 12 2010 5:56 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, My Commentaries, drugs, healthcare, medicare, medical billing, Cancer, Oncology, CMS, Fraud, Orange County, Health Insuance, American Cancer Society, Treatment, Glen Justice, AVVO

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