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White House Proposes Medicare Doc Fix To The Payment Algorithm for 2 Years

Yes that is what this is, yet one more algorithm that created the plans for budgets and agency funding for a number of years . You have to step back and look at when the business model was created, years ago and then step back and look at where...

Published Thu, Feb 02 2011 11:30 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, healthcare, medicare, Congress, HHS, Politics, White House, Budget, heatlhcare reform, algorithm, Algo Men

FBI Accused of installing Back Door in OpenBSD With Intentions of Monitoring Attorneys-Only the Algorithm Knows for Sure

This is a little outside of healthcare but I wanted to include this to once again illustrate the power of algorithmic formulas and how they are being used. This is a pretty serious offense if in fact it is proven. Algorithms written by programmers...

Published Tue, Dec 12 2010 3:09 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Technology, Other Items of Interest, privacy, Code, FBI, VPN, algorithm, computer code, Attorneys, syping, back door

Private Equity Firm Water Street Healthcare Partners Invests With New Century Health Oncology and Cardiology Benefit Manager-Algorithms to Control Cost

Per the press release, this is the fourth proprietary investment in outsourced services for payers in healthcare. Most of the investments we see today are on the payer side (where the big money is made in healthcare) and focuses on algorithmic formulas...

Published Thu, Dec 12 2010 10:51 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, payers, transactions, algorithm, private equity, management, New Century Health, Water Street Healthcare

Giving Medical Record Access To An Employer and The “Employee Assistance” Program Lead to Woman Getting Fired

According to the story the woman has been alcohol free for over 14 years and slipped back and informed her employer she was going to seek treatment. We don’t know how bad the problem was or if she had been drinking on the job and/or had been warned...

Published Thu, Nov 11 2010 12:15 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, privacy, Medical Records, Therapy, Risk, counseling, employer, algorithm, alchohol consumption

New Melanoma Identification Device Gets FDA Panel Approval–Questions About How Human Intervention Works with Melafind Algorithm Arise From Discussion

We have all been reading about the FDA and their increase responsibilities for approval on medical devices where software is inherent in the functioning of a device and this story with the MelaFind device is a good example of that process. I first...

Published Fri, Nov 11 2010 2:39 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, My Commentaries, Medical Devices, FDA, skin cancer, melanoma, screening, algorithm, MelaFind

Tenet Healthcare Uses Software Company PeopleAnswers Algorithms to Profile Nurses with Using Predictive Behavior Modeling to Save Money and Reduce Turnover

More new trending with predictive behavior software in the news today with utilizing software to predict from one’s behavior whether or not you may be a good candidate for a nursing job when applying. Data analytics are once more on steroids and...

Published Mon, Sep 09 2010 12:45 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, Tenet, Hospitals, software, Data, Express Scripts, nurses, Human Resources, algorithm, analysis, PeopleAnswers, human resoruces

Stephen Colbert Talks to Google CEO Eric Schmidt About Algorithms, Data Mining and the Web

This is good and why the word “algorithm” holds center stage here at the Medical Quack, they are everywhere in influence our decisions and in healthcare too, big time, wake up call again folks. “Humans just aren’t very good”, funny but the undertone...

Published Wed, Sep 09 2010 12:05 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Technology, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Google, Data Mining, Stephen Colbert, ethics, algorithm, Eric Schmidt

FDA Monitoring Apps Store To Look for Devices To Potentially Flag for Regulatory Process Requirements–FDA Could Use Some Mobile Technology Themselves Too With Recalls

Some device companies have already submitted their products and have received approval for FDA clearance such as WellDoc and ExpressMD . There are a few others I have reported on as well that have done the same; however there’s a lot of device software...

Published Tue, Aug 08 2010 8:26 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, My Commentaries, healthcare, Cell phone, Mobility, FDA, diabetes 2, Bluetooth, SmartPhone, algorithm, blood sugar, devices that report data, mHealth

Former Cigna CEO and Founder Joins Board of Directors With Medical Tourism Company–Accounting and Algorithmic Business Model Expertise Hired

This kind of makes one feel that health insurance and medical tourism outside the US is getting a bit cozier. You can see Mexico listed as one of their destination and in the news recently the President of Mexico is ready to attract more revenue...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2010 12:08 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, health insurance, CEO, Medical Tourism, Heatlhcare, Cigna, healthcare reform, Mexico, algorithm, board of directors, Satori, James Buncher

FDA Approves WellDoc Smartphone Mobile Diabetes Tool/Software Using Bluetooth And Automated Algorithmic Analysis Processes

Back in April of 2008 I wrote about the pilot program being conducted with Blue Cross for this application and you can read more at the link below. A short clip from the original post follows. Blue Cross to Pilot Diabetes Smart Phone Application...

Published Tue, Aug 08 2010 4:15 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Technology, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, healthcare, Cell phone, Mobility, FDA, diabetes 2, Bluetooth, SmartPhone, algorithm, blood sugar, devices that report data, mHealth, Welldoc

Behavioral Software Decodes Human Voices to Identify Person’s Present State Over the Phone – Voice Driven Algorithms for Analysis

You know pretty soon you may not even “want” to talk with people on the phone as this software seems to be like they are almost coming through the phone to see your face. The article states the software can also predict when you might start yelling...

Published Sat, May 05 2010 10:22 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Prostate Cancer, software, Disease, Risk Management, emotions, algorithm, autism, call centers, speech, audio, “eXaudios, behavioral analytics, Cognito Health

Sensohaler Device To Help Drive Compliance With Inhaled Medications – Smart Medical Devices

We have a new device on the inhaler end of drug delivery and this one also says the mission is to “Tune in to Compliance”, which means we are going to see if you are taking your drugs when you are supposed to and how much. This device looks like...

Published Wed, May 05 2010 1:55 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Physician, Patient, Medications, Asthma, chip, compliance, algorithm, devices that report data, Sensohaler

Teneros Social Sentry Software – Enterprise Software Algorithms to Track and Monitor Employee Social Network Activity

I’m guessing this post is not going to make anyone’s day. We heard this week about all Tweets being archived so now we have a software service that will allow employers to check up on you and see what you are doing during on social networks. ...

Published Fri, Apr 04 2010 1:36 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Technology, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, privacy, health insurance, Social Networks, Facebook, Twitter, Data Mining, Intelligence, My Space, algorithm, analytics, business, Teneros, enterprise snooping

FDA and NIH Working To Accelerate Development of Innovative Medical Technologies – It’s All In the Software

Personally from doing this blog it doesn’t appear to me that we have a shortage in the development area, but where the issues lie is in standards and bringing some of this to a better collaborative effort. You do NOT want to rush the programmers...

Published Wed, Mar 03 2010 2:49 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, Medical Devices, FDA, software, NIH, Translational Medicine, Fast Track, algorithm, innnovation

Will Marry For Health Insurance Web Site – Nobody Cares, Responds, The Reality of A 30 Second Attention Span

This is pretty interesting when you listen to the video. On the “Will Marry for Health Insurance Site” she talks about opportunities she has had come her way, but has not made a move and is basically asking via the video, what is the right thing...

Published Sat, Feb 02 2010 12:42 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, health insurance, Internet, Cobra, healthcare reform, algorithm, distraction, life, disruption, judgement, chatter, human value. aggregation

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