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The 2 New Hot Words in Healthcare: Algorithms and Whistleblowers

This story about Walgreens illustrates a little bit of both. After the economy and Wall Street news of the last couple of weeks, we should know now about how programmers set algorithms to select, process and deliver data. Need a refresher...

Published Wed, Oct 10 2008 3:56 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, My Commentaries, drugs, healthcare, Prescriptions, Medicaid, Medications, Medicare contractor, Whistle Blower, Data, Data Base, Algorithms

Waging Health Battles by Fax Bots

This is a very good article here that talks about what goes on in the back side of a medical practice. When working with an HMO or PPO contract it can be a very time consuming process. Because of all the faxing and paper work that some...

Published Tue, Sep 09 2008 8:56 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Prescriptions, Generic Drugs, referrals, Faxing, IPA, overhead

American Hospital Association urges DEA to pilot test proposed e-prescribing rule

Will we ever get the DEA away from paper? With the current move to e-prescribing the DEA has not come up with their exact plan yet to work with providers to make it easier to e-prescribe instead of having to use the old antiquated 4 part paper pads...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2008 2:12 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Health IT, Electronic Medical Records, Physicians, Prescriptions, e-Prescriptions, DEA, AMA, medicaitons, American Hospital Association

Doctors and patients to stay connected – Electronic Health Records

During the hurricane evacuation process, each headed different directions, but the doctor’s Blackberry notified him that he was need by a patient, and being both were in network and with electronic medical records, he was able to fill a prescription for...

Published Wed, Sep 09 2008 6:15 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Tablet PCs, Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Medical Records, Prescriptions

Monday Special: A Gift Bag of Resource Websites for Healthcare Managers

A nice word of thanks to Mary Pat Whaley for adding the information about the links to where the $4.00 generic drugs can be found easily at the Medical Quack. I put the resources on the site to make it simple so one does not have to navigate each...

Published Mon, Sep 09 2008 11:06 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, My Commentaries, drugs, Blogs, Prescriptions, Practice Management

When Pay for Performance and $4.00 Generic Prescriptions Hit the Wall

This is something in my conversations with physicians that keeps coming up, so I thought I would write up a post. On this blog I provide links to the $4.00 and other cost saving areas for anyone, insurance or no insurance to find the best cost on...

Published Sun, Sep 09 2008 8:23 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, Physician, drugs, Pharma, Prescriptions, HMO, Pay for Performance, Cash Patient

Free Drug Samples May End Up Costing Uninsured More

This is one heated debate for sure, many physicians do use the sample closet to help those who otherwise may not be able to afford the medications, and yes it might be a good idea when given a sample to ask and see if there is a generic drug option once...

Published Mon, Sep 09 2008 12:09 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, Pharma, Prescriptions, Generics, healthcare insurance

Walgreen CEO: Bad Economy Hurts Prescriptions

This is not the first time this issue has been in the news in the last couple of years, but the dollars, or lack of dollars perhaps bring this to light once more, and once more it all comes back to money. There are some interesting efforts going on to...

Published Fri, Sep 09 2008 10:28 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, healthcare, Pharma, Prescriptions, Aetna, Health Insurance Coverage

CVS Goes for Longs - Another Step in Drugstore Consolidation

One reason stated is convenience, more on every corner, like the gas stations. To take advantage of some of the other low cost benefits, there may be a longer driving distance. A while back I had a conversation with someone from CVS, and there...

Published Wed, Aug 08 2008 1:20 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Pharma, Prescriptions, Pharmacies, CVS, Longs Drugs

Drugs for Death, Not Life

Stories like this are sad indeed. It comes back to the dollar and someone playing "God" to determine who gets treatment and who does not. Granted personalized medicine tests will help in time, not only from the actual treatment side...

Published Wed, Aug 08 2008 10:47 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, drugs, healthcare, health insurance, Prescriptions, Cancer

Maker of Defective Digitek Recalls All Generic Drugs Made at New Jersey Factory

Digitek, as you may or may not remember was found to contain twice the amount of active ingredient in the tablets earlier this year. The list is below as published by the FDA. The recall is being conducted for retailers to return...

Published Tue, Aug 08 2008 12:29 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, Prescriptions, FDA, Generic Drugs, Medications, Recalls

Aetna "Take your Pill" Lottery...

How bad do the insurance companies want the patients to take their medications? Well enough to try a pilot program with an electronic umbilical cord to tie the patient to a device. It doesn't say exactly how the device will work...

Published Tue, Aug 08 2008 12:10 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, Medical Devices, Pills, Prescriptions, Aetna

Muscle Pain from Statins? Time for a genetic evaluation - Personalized Medicine

This is good, a genomics test that can give some preliminary results on whether or not statins will have an adverse effect before prescribing them. As the post states here, this is something that could certainly use some marketing to physicians...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2008 11:19 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, DNA, Genomics, Prescriptions, Pharmacogenomics, Statins

Prescription Data Used To Assess Consumers - No Privacy Unless You Pay Cash...

This brings up one big issue, something I have been aware of for a while, collecting data for one purpose and being used for another, think this doesn't happen, think again. When you sign up for health insurance, you sign you life away for all...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2008 9:36 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, drugs, health insurance, Prescriptions, Cash

Insurance companies deny coverage based on medications a patient is taking obtained from marketing reports…

One more way for the information to run queries to cherry pick applicants is accomplished. When you apply for insurance, the fine writing will usually state that you are giving permission to check any medical information and records and, yes, this...

Published Fri, Jul 07 2008 5:32 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, drugs, healthcare, health insurance, Prescriptions, Pharmaceuticals, Medications

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