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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

Abortion Group Contesting Sale of Caritas to Private Equity Firm Cerberus–Pushing the Decision to Lose the Religion Sooner?

Is this going to be an early buy out with the $25 million dollar contribution to charity for the Catholic affiliation with the hospital chain, or does the group stop the sale and hospitals close up. As far as what I read in the news, that...

Published Wed, Aug 08 2010 8:13 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Hospitals, Money, Investments, abortions, Caritas Christi Health, Cerberus, private equity

Americans Cut Back on Visits to Doctors–Which Means Less Use of Healthcare Software and Websites–Software Folks Have Not Figured This Out Yet & Keep Littering

This is kind of ironic as visits to doctors slows down, the speed and amount of new software doubles its pace it seems with everyone having something that is “new and better” than the other guys. We have that too with medical billing software so...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2010 6:32 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, healthcare, Social Networks, Congress, e-Patient, Money, Survey, Algorithms, role models, Kathleen Sebelius, Non participants, tech denial, non-participants, personal

US Congressional Representative Gets Pulled Over for Using a Cell Phone While Driving And Was Live on the Air Doing Radio Interview

I talk quite a bit about the paradigms of “its for those guys over there” with our Congress and leadership and by gosh, here’s a perfect example, on the air for all to hear. How many times have we seen this in the news about not using your cell...

Published Sun, Aug 08 2010 3:31 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Social Networks, Congress, e-Patient, Money, Survey, Algorithms, Oprah, role models, Kathleen Sebelius, Non participants, tech denial, non-participants, personal

HHS To Conduct Study on Patient Perception on Health IT – Got A Better Idea Why Don’t They Become E-patients Role Models, and Participants – Make IT Personal and Believable

I say this quite a bit here at the Medical Quack, there’s nothing better than first hand experience and it saves time in trying to figure out what others think too. This is why we have the big boom on social networks. It’s a given fact that...

Published Mon, May 05 2010 12:57 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, My Commentaries, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, Social Networks, PHR, e-Patient, Money, Survey, Algorithms, role models, Kathleen Sebelius, Joe Biden, Non participants, personal

Biden Says Savings with Electronic Records are Big – Is He an ePatient? Let’s Get Personal Here As That is What We Want to Hear, Not the Same Old News of How Health IT Saves Money

In short I would say the last 5 years there’s not a day that goes by that I don’t see at least one article about how someone is “saying” electronic medical records save money, but I guess it continues to be “news fillers” of sorts. In my opinion, this...

Published Tue, May 05 2010 9:10 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, Social Networks, PHR, e-Patient, Money, Algorithms, Kathleen Sebelius, Joe Biden, personal, non participans

The AMA Discontinues It’s Business Relationship with Sermo

As everyone who read this blog knows I am not a physician, but provide the technology and business end of health care here, and on that one note I looked over the AMA page and found something missing, a forum where members can speak and make suggestions...

Published Thu, Jul 07 2009 12:56 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Physicians, AMA, CPT, Money, Advocacy, Sermo, role models, KevinMD, business relationships

American Medical Association and American Hospital Association Said Both Should Work with Insurers and set aside Adversarial History

After reading the headlines, I wonder how many members were maybe lost here. I have heard from several doctors that they have discontinued their membership in the AMA, and this is over a few years, not all just recent. One item that is perhaps...

Published Tue, Jun 06 2009 2:08 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, My Commentaries, healthcare, health insurance, Medical Devices, Hospitals, AMA, Money, iPhone, Congressional Algorithms, AHA, opinion, honesty, Obama Healthplan, dishonesty, deception, bedfellows

States Do not have the Money to manage the Funds – Stimulus for the Stimulus?

This is an interesting report here and relates back to business intelligence information needed to report back as to where and how the money is and will be spent. To accomplish this, you need business intelligence software to pull this all together...

Published Thu, Apr 04 2009 3:13 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Business Intelligence, Hospitals, Budgets, software, Money, Obama Healthcare Plan, stimulus

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