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General Dynamics And McKesson Receive Contracts to Assist Department of Defense Health Systems to Include AHLTA and Vista-How Many Hands are In this Contract Pot?

Every time you turn around we keep hearing of yet another new contract for the VA and DOD and here’s more. Are they going to give up on their own and get one from McKesson? In the meantime there’s a lot of development going on with VistA too...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2011 2:54 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, healthcare, McKesson, VA, Heatlh IT, Veterans Administration, Department of Defense, collaboration, innovation, GAO. Government Accounting Office, General Dynamics

Feds Charge ex-Home Diagnostics CEO with Insider Trading Violations With Acquisition From Nipro Diagnostics

Last year Home Diagnostics was sold to Nipro Corporation and the case here involves alleged information being given out before the transactions took place and of course there were those who benefited financially. The press release was from June...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2011 1:45 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, CEO, Medical Devices, FDA, Diabetes, Glucose, Blood samples, Insider Trading, Profits, Mergers and Acquisitions, SEC, Nirpo, Home Diagnostics

Heritage Providers Continues to Promote $3 Million Dollar Prize to Create An Algorithm To Predict and Prevents Hospitalizations

Back in December of 2010 the initial press release came out and there have been a few other press posts since that time and now we have a video, dialing for algorithms almost. Heritage Provider Network In California Announces $3 Million Prize-Behavioral...

Published Sun, Feb 02 2011 11:53 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, healthcare, privacy, Social Networks, Patents, Data Mining, queries for money, websites, algoirthims, Heritage

Study Shows Women Who Experience Hot Flashes May Have as High as a 50% Reduced Chance of Developing Breast Cancer

Well for once I feel lucky if this is true. Those bothersome irritating sessions of hot flushes are contributing to something good! Nobody likes to talk about this subject but for women it’s just a part of life and perhaps these flashes are burning...

Published Fri, Jan 01 2011 3:52 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Hot Flashes, Cancer, Study, women's health, hormones, menopause, Hot Flash Havoc, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Hospital Lawsuit over EHR Systems and Money-Meditech, Epic and “The Consultants”-“Meaningful Money” & “Health IT Literacy”

We have now moved beyond “meaningful use” and in this case are looking at “meaningful money” of sorts. This is a type of decision that many healthcare companies look at today,do we keep adding on or do we rip out and start from scratch, and money...

Published Fri, Jan 01 2011 2:05 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, Computers, healthcare, Medical Records, Lawsuit, Health IT, Security, Epic, Data, Algorithms, virus, consultants, Methodist Hospitals, Meditch

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

Dow Jones Files Lawsuit Against HHS To Overturn Ruling To Keep Medicare Physician Compensation Confidential In the False Name of Transparency-Distraction is More Like It

This is the biggest filing to create nothing more than a huge distraction and source of disruption that I have seen this year. Again, like so many other items we see in the news today, with the general consumer having no idea how data and mathematics...

Published Tue, Jan 01 2011 10:38 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, healthcare, medicare, Lawsuit, HHS, AMA, Doctors, Algorithms, Media, American Medical Association, Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones

Insurers Scouring Social Networks for Underwriting Risks and Behaviors for Red Flags-One More Warning to Be Careful As Algorithms Will Be Deployed to Find Risk

The article goes on to say that the information should be used as a red flag type of warning and not as final proof of any type of fraud, but in today’s world, who knows what could fly. As you can see mentioned below, one firm actually published...

Published Mon, Jan 01 2011 10:02 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Technology, Insurance, My Commentaries, healthcare, privacy, Patents, Data Mining, queries for money, websites, Facebook. social networks, algoirthims, Patients Like Me

Study From Price Waterhouse States the U.S. Medical-Technology Business Is Losing It’s Edge-Time to Think About Priorities

In doing this blog and researching and reading about what’s happening here and what goes on globally I guess I’m kind of close to it as well as the journalists who bring the article to press that I blog about. We see jobs and technology going over...

Published Wed, Jan 01 2011 1:33 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, healthcare, FDA, China, India, Economy, Investments, Study, JP Morgan, innovation, jobs, Price Waterhouse, ventur capital

Blue Shield Not Listening to Insurance Commish in CA-Time for Mr. Jones to Hit Up the CA CIO for Some Auditing Algorithms

Ok, so what’s the reason for this title? The only leg apparently there is to stand on here is to prove that Blue Shield paid less than 70% on healthcare. Guess what you need some audit algorithms and not take them for their word as there might...

Published Fri, Jan 01 2011 5:22 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Insurance, Microsoft/Windows News, My Commentaries, healthcare, health insurance, California, Non Profit, Algorithms, Blue Shield, premiums, audit, healthcare reform, medical care, rates, CIOs

Sams Club (Walmart) Selling $99 a Year Healthy Living Plan From US Preventive Medicine–Wellness for Data Resources

In May of 2010 US Preventive Medicine, a Dallas based company raised $25 million in equity financing, just some to be aware of and now they are in partnership with Sam’s Club to make you get healthier. You know all of this targeted healthcare information...

Published Thu, Jan 01 2011 7:58 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, healthcare, Blood Tests, Diagnostics, websites, tools, coaching, Prevention Plan, Sams Club, softare, heatlh risk, health risk

In Health Care Cutting Costs Is Paying Off for Investors-Business Analytics May Create Profits but Without Balance Care Suffers

We also now have private equity firms buying hospitals. There’s a hospital and clinic group in southern California called Prime Healthcare and they basically bought up hospitals who were upside down financially and many times it was either a purchase...

Published Thu, Jan 01 2011 6:47 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, healthcare, Investors, health insurance, Algorithms, Cost, formulas, Profits, blockbuster drugs, private equity

CareCentrix Benefit Management Firm(Private Equity Partner of Water Street Healthcare) Buys Sleep Management Solutions To Enforce Sleep Apnea Device Compliance

CareCentrix is partnered with Private Equity firm Water Street Healthcare Partners so we are for profit here. In December of 2010 they made this announcement with CareCentrix. Water Street states their investment capital comes from limited partners...

Published Wed, Jan 01 2011 1:25 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, healthcare, health insurance, wellness, private equity, Water Street Healthcare, CareCentrix, providers technology, Sleep technology

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

At CES Walgreens Chief Medical Officer Discusses Their Technologies for Healthcare

This is interesting on how healthcare technologies are following us everywhere, even to CES, as much of the new technology is consumer medical devices. Part of the convention included a Digital Health Summit meeting and the press release originated...

Published Sat, Jan 01 2011 5:13 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, My Commentaries, drugs, healthcare, Medical Records, Pharma, Retail Clinics, Pay for Performance, Data, Walgreens, pharmacists, CES, United, CMO

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