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Physicians Hand Out Medical Excuses In Wisconsin in Support of Keeping Collective Bargaining Alive (Video)
Meaningful Use-Time To Investigate Beyond Proof of Concept and Half Baked Technologies, A Security Reality Check
Microsoft States More Techies Will be Moved Into Executive Positions–Congress, White House Are you Listening-This is a Good Idea
FDA Launches “FDA Basics for Industry” Website–Information and Resources for Regulatory Processes But Nothing for Recalls
In California Republicans and Democrats Work to Implement Health Care Reform

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Physicians Hand Out Medical Excuses In Wisconsin in Support of Keeping Collective Bargaining Alive (Video)

Whether you are in a union, or have never been in a union, if collective bargaining were to go away, you will not like it on either side if you are in the middle class in America. Everyone wonders why doctors never get together and speak up much...

Published Sun, Feb 02 2011 10:50 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, Government, Politics, Doctors, Wisconsin, teachers, unions, excuses, collective bargaining
Meaningful Use-Time To Investigate Beyond Proof of Concept and Half Baked Technologies, A Security Reality Check

Half baked is a lot of what we are getting out there today . Everyone in different aspects of Health IT has their own special interest and some of these areas are not playing very well with other technologies. Take a look and think about why...

Published Fri, Feb 02 2011 2:10 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, Hospital, healthcare, Medical Records, CIO, HealthIT, Government, Doctors, ONC, CHIME, information technologies, choices
Microsoft States More Techies Will be Moved Into Executive Positions–Congress, White House Are you Listening-This is a Good Idea

We all know Microsoft is the king of code and they do a lot of stuff right but right now are losing a bit of ground in the mobility area with consumers and thus the shake up and changing around. Sometimes new ideas are a good thing along with new...

Published Tue, Feb 02 2011 3:16 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Microsoft/Windows News, My Commentaries, microsoft, Medical Records, Health IT, Education, HHS, Government, healthcare reform, role models, engineering, techies
FDA Launches “FDA Basics for Industry” Website–Information and Resources for Regulatory Processes But Nothing for Recalls

This is part of the FDA’s efforts for transparency and to improve communications. The site included “basic” information to help companies communicate with the agency. The commitment is to release an answer in 5 days for inquires. FDA...

Published Wed, Jan 01 2011 3:11 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, My Commentaries, FDA, Government, Transparency, websites, Regulatory issues, processes
In California Republicans and Democrats Work to Implement Health Care Reform

California is coming out swinging and putting the IT infrastructure and programs in place to work with reform. There are a couple videos here and this is “try” like almost everything else in healthcare and at least the exchanges are being put in...

Published Tue, Dec 12 2010 6:52 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, health insurance, Health IT, California, CMS, Government, healthcare reform, reform, Non participants, exchanges, Schwartzenegger
Newly Elected Congressman, Anesthesiologist Wants His Government Provided Health Insurance Now–Study Those Algorithms for Eligibility One Might Suggest

This is kind of funny actually, coming from a doctor of all things, but being outside the realm of a family practice, he doesn’t seem to get it as this is how the rest of us are handled with provisions and algorithms with eligibility and what gets covered...

Published Tue, Nov 11 2010 12:57 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, Medicine, health insurance, Government, Senate, Algorithms, Cobra, freshman, anesthesiologist, Andy Harris, gap, algoirithms
Website Created to Report EHR Safety Issues and Share It With the FDA and Other Government Agencies

Hey I have a grand idea here, let’s rate them <grin>, a bad on my part here but with recently writing about all the errors and mistakes on doctor rating sites, could not help myself to give the MDS a little boost if you will. Back in February...

Published Tue, Nov 11 2010 12:24 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, My Commentaries, Health IT, FDA, HHS, Government, Senate, Algorithms, Grassley, resources, Non participants, tech denial
Medicare Chief Berwick Scheduled to Testify Before Senate Finance Committee Next Week- A Witch Hunt or Collaboration?

The good doctor has hardly been in office long enough to make a dent yet, but hopefully the Senate Finance Committee will be open ears rather than continuing to venture on what we have seen in the news with the “witch-hunt” tactics that have been reported...

Published Thu, Nov 11 2010 2:07 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, healthcare, health insurance, CMS, NHS, Government, Politics, Senate, Algorithms, role models, GOP, Berwick, Finance, Algo man
In Coders We Trust: Laurel Ruma Describes Gov 2.0 As A Platform–Become an “Algo Man”

This is a nice presentation on government and technology and what is being done, they need coders to build as the last administration didn’t take this seriously or did not understand the meaning. The government needs a militia of coders to work...

Published Thu, Oct 10 2010 2:54 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, healthcare, Government, coders, innovation, Algo man, algoirthims, Gov 2.0, O'Reilly Media, Sunshine Foundation
Data Addiction and Abuse –The Up and Coming Next 12 Step Program Is On the Horizon–Side Effects Include Lack Of Data Quality, Integrity And Spasmodic Algorithms

I like technology and all the information that becomes available but with the current status of the economy and mergers and acquisitions occurring today, we can stand a little less innovation in the software area , now this excludes of course the work...

Published Wed, Sep 09 2010 12:57 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, My Commentaries, health insurance, HHS, Government, Data, Algorithms, collaboration, health data, healthcare reform, data addiction, 12 step addictions
Privacy-New Ruling Gives The Government the Right to Track Your Every Move With GPS–Please Get “Elect Digital Literate Representatives” in Congress And Consider Adding This as a Pre-Requisite To Hold Office!

This is the kind of stuff that happens when we have “non participants’ or “dead heads” when it comes to technology making laws and supposedly looking out for citizens, they are oblivious. The only way to keep government snoopers out is to install...

Published Wed, Aug 08 2010 5:47 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Technology, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Medical Devices, FDA, Congress, HHS, cell phones, Government, Recalls, role models, Pelosi, Bar Codes, tech denial, GPs
$46 Million in Grants To Help States Regulate High Health Insurance Premiums Hikes–First Stop for the Funds Are New Algorithms & Infrastructure Updates So The Money Works

When you look at how the money can be used, it says it right there, go to the IT folks first otherwise none of the rest will work. You need all the algorithms to analyze and come up with game plans before you do you anything, so hopefully each state...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2010 7:57 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, My Commentaries, health insurance, Health IT, HHS, Government, Profits, states, Sebelius, Grant, exchanges, insurance commissioners
Outrage Over U.S. Plan To Train Offshore IT Workers–US Taxpayers Footing the Bill

This article just goes to show what distraction, disruption and lack of focus can bring today. As I have mentioned before when you get non IT individuals making decision that involve IT and tech, you end up with some very strange results and this...

Published Wed, Aug 08 2010 2:20 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, healthcare, Budgets, Heatlh IT, Government, Politics, Outsourcing, IT, jobs, offshore
National Conference of State Legislatures Using Microsoft Tags At This Year’s Convention to Allow Attendees to Stay Informed and Engaged

This is great and goes right along with my advocacy for using Microsoft Tag Bar Coding. At present I have about 30 articles on the Medical Quack written on this topic, why, because the technology stands to save lives is the the biggest reason. ...

Published Fri, Jul 07 2010 2:40 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Windows Mobile, Microsoft/Windows News, My Commentaries, drugs, healthcare, Medical Devices, FDA, Congress, HHS, cell phones, Government, Safety, Recalls, role models, Pelosi, Microsoft Tags, Bar Codes, tech denial, National Conference of State Legislatures, NCSL
“Meaningful Use” Regulation for Electronic Health Records – Information and Updates

Today is the day most in Health IT have been waiting for with the new regulations and rules. The New England Journal of Medicine has condensed the 864 pages (embedded below) of the new rules and regulations into a simple graphic format, and you...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2010 12:07 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, EMR, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, Hospitals, HHS, Heatlh IT, obesity, Government, Politics, Doctors, Patients, Surgeon General, stimulus, healthcare reform, Meaningful Use, role models, ONC, Magpies, picking, HHSInsurance

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