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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

Trademarkia Data Base Opens for Business- Trademarks, Business Intelligence Information-Algorithm To Search With Chatter From Social Networks

This is very cool if you have trademarks or are wanting to file one for sure. I can’t help but think in the pharma end of healthcare that Trademarkia will perhaps be used quite a bit. All the trademarks issued in the US since 1870 claim to...

Published Fri, Feb 02 2011 1:39 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, healthcare, Social Networks, Pharma, Intelligence, Algorithms, websites, business, trademarks, Trademarkia, logos, US Patent and Trademark Office

Glow Caps from Vitality Purchased by Billionaire Investor–Pill Bottle With Compliance Data Trails Built In

Patrick Soon-Shiong M.D. is the Los Angeles billionaire investor who has scooped up the company. Overall the product is a good thing as far as the reminder system and keep folks on track. My only concerns is the privacy factors and the data...

Published Fri, Feb 02 2011 12:30 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, EMR, drugs, healthcare, EHR, Pharma, PHR, Prescriptions, data bases, Business Intelligence, Fines, personal health record, Algorithms, formulas, Express Scripts, overcharges, Vitality, Cobert Report, nsurance

Vitality and AT&T Selling Glow Caps Prescription Bottle on Amazon-Compliance Help and Also Creates Data for Sale

The concept of the pill bottle is good and can be helpful but the side of all of this are the profits that it creates for Health IT companies to sell your data. It is what it is. The Colbert Report did a funny video on the Glow Caps a while...

Published Tue, Jan 01 2011 1:31 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, EMR, drugs, healthcare, EHR, Pharma, PHR, Prescriptions, data bases, Business Intelligence, Fines, personal health record, Algorithms, formulas, Express Scripts, overcharges, Vitality, Amazon.com, Cobert Report, : Insurance

Sanofi Uses Automated Calling System And Emails For Last Round of 1700 Layoffs–Fired by the HR Textbox

Algorithms can be programmed for many uses and this one seem so very impersonal with first a mass email effort that contained instructions to call in to a 800 number and a code. An automated voice according to this article told those who were going...

Published Fri, Dec 12 2010 11:28 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, Pharma, Code, Layoffs, Algorithms, Phone, Sanofi-Aventis, HR, drug reps, employees

Office of Inspector General Finds $40 Million by CMS With Less than Effective Drugs Prescribed–Medicare Part D Data Search

There were a large number rejected but there was also a large number that slipped through. Now when it comes to Medicare Part D, as we all know by now this is administered by insurance companies and their data so in essence, this is due to the lack of...

Published Thu, Nov 11 2010 12:24 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, drugs, Pharma, FDA, Medicare Part D, CMS, Data, Algorithms, less than effective drugs

Study on Pill Bottle Shows Promise - Additional “Data for Sale” With Compliance Technology?

I try to see both side of this coin and yes having reminders and helpers is not a bad thing at all, it’s just the data side with privacy issues that seem to be the bug here as health insurance companies provide “behavioral underwriting” today to analyze...

Published Thu, Jun 06 2010 10:53 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, EMR, drugs, healthcare, EHR, Pharma, PHR, Prescriptions, data bases, Business Intelligence, Fines, personal health record, Algorithms, formulas, overcharges, Vitality

Vitality Pill Bottle to Use AT&T Wireless to Transmit Medication Compliance and Refill Information

This is interesting as I ponder the contract here giving AT&T a new list of consumers to potentially market? As mentioned before prescription medication information is bought and sold and not covered by HIPAA, so where does this open the doors...

Published Thu, Apr 04 2010 3:26 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, EMR, drugs, healthcare, EHR, Pharma, PHR, Prescriptions, data bases, Business Intelligence, personal health record, Algorithms, formulas, Express Scripts, AT&T, Vitality

The Colbert Report Takes On Vitality GlowCaps (Video) – Check Out the Privacy Issues Here As Medication Data is Created That Can Be Sold To Health Insurance Companies For Use With Underwriting Algorithms

You have to love this! I post about all kinds of technology on this blog and have talked about the Glow Caps project and here’s a few links below. “Seniors are great at setting up networks and internet connections”. Goes back to what...

Published Wed, Mar 03 2010 11:10 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, EMR, drugs, healthcare, EHR, Pharma, PHR, Prescriptions, data bases, Business Intelligence, Fines, personal health record, Algorithms, formulas, Express Scripts, overcharges, Vitality, Cobert Report

Grassley Checking Up on WebMD With Cymbalta Using Behavioral Algorithms To Sell Drugs By Eli Lilly

Do you need a test to see if you are suffering from depression? Eli Lilly of course is thinking you should, as is probably every other pharmaceutical company who has an anti-depressant drug on the market. If you are depressed, or I should...

Published Sat, Feb 02 2010 1:49 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, healthcare, Pharma, Internet, Advertising, antidepressants, Doctors, TV, Algorithms, Eli Lilly, Grassley, Cymbalta, WebMD

The Pill Bottle That Talks To Your Cell Phone, Creates Data Reports and More…

Back about 6 months ago when I started talking about the Blue Tooth Inhaler, everyone thought I was nuts and thought I was talking about Star Wars type of information , well the devices are either on their way shortly or are here. I’ll give...

Published Wed, Oct 10 2009 11:13 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, EMR, drugs, healthcare, EHR, Pharma, PHR, Prescriptions, data bases, Business Intelligence, Fines, personal health record, Algorithms, formulas, overcharges, Ingenix, Milliman, Vitality

FDA Trying to Figure Out Web 2.0 – Public Hearings in November on Tweet Patrol and Other Social Networks along with Advertising Guidelines

Pfizer says we want Twitter and Google too! That is just one example of course on the debated issue. The FDA has their hands full with technology issues today I must say. As everyone knows the FDA keeps a watch over pharma advertising...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2009 5:53 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Technology, Pharma/FDA News, healthcare, Social Networks, Facebook, Pharma, FDA, Twitter, Advertising, Data Mining, Algorithms, Laws, Sentinel Issue

Health Insurance Underwriting Practices With Prescription Data – How Does This Work

Somebody brought up this question the other day on how do insurance companies get your medication information. The information below goes back to a post I did about 3 months ago on the two main companies that provide the information for the insurers...

Published Thu, Jun 06 2009 12:29 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, EMR, drugs, healthcare, EHR, Pharma, PHR, Prescriptions, data bases, Business Intelligence, Fines, personal health record, Algorithms, formulas, Inginex, overcharges, Milliman

Stimulus Bill To Compare Effectiveness of Medical Treatments – But Let’s not Forget Science in the Process

This is one part of the bill pharmaceutical and medical-device lobbyists are protesting, as it would stand to potentially eliminate some drugs and treatment plans once queries are run to find out and identify what is the best over all treatment plan,...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2009 1:07 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Pharma, Congress, Heatlh IT, Economy, Risk Management, Algorithms, Stimulus Bill, Smart people

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