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NIH Offers Mobile Health Workshop for Behavioral Science With Mobile Health Algorithms And Formulas-We Want To Know Your Thoughts and What You May Do (Grin)

Well here it is now from the government. A couple years ago I started posting about behavioral health and mostly relative to insurance companies. They use data to project risk and keep cost down with their algorithms. Guess what, they...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2011 7:18 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, privacy, Heatlhcare, NIH, Intelligence, wireless, Algorithms, participatory Sensing, business, mobile heatlh, mHeatlh, devices that record data, predictive behavior

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

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

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

Beware of the DNA Snatchers of the Future

Private investigators soon may take on a whole new identify. As we have all read your DNA can easily be picked up off a glass where you drank some water, a beverage at a bar and so on. We currently have GINA to protect us from companies using...

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

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, DNA, healthcare, privacy, Genes, Life Technologies, testing, phara, dna machine, Ion Torrent, semi conductors

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

Walgreen Customer Email Listing Has Unauthorized Access So Be Watchful of Potential Spam Emails

How hot is marketing in healthcare, hot enough to where folks are poaching for email addresses and the usual attempts for identify theft. Walgreens said no personal information as far as passwords or account numbers were hacked so it’s just the...

Published Fri, Dec 12 2010 7:01 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, privacy, Email, information, Walgreens, breaches, drug stores, spam mail, personal data, spammers

Heritage Provider Network In California Announces $3 Million Prize-Behavioral Analytics For Predictive Algorithmic Formulas On Who Will be Admitted to the Hospital

This is interesting as those who wish to participate will be given anonymized records of 100,000 patients who are current members of Heritage. With using analytic algorithms the goal is to predict a percentage of members who have been to the hospital...

Published Mon, Dec 12 2010 12:25 PM by The Medical Quack

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

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

Consumer Watch Dog Group Files Complaint with the FTC Regarding Data Mining, Profiling Algorithms–Privacy With Health Information At Risk With Insurer and Employer Usage

This is always a great topic as you just don’t know what data mining algorithms could be mining your data. Yup, there’s that word again and it’s an algorithm that is written in code that does this. Do you not think that algorithms are in control...

Published Tue, Nov 11 2010 11:16 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Technology, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, privacy, Patents, Data Mining, FTC, queries for money, websites, Facebook. social networks, consumer watchdog, algoirthims, Patients Like Me

GINA Law Prohibits Employers from Using Genetic Information But Wellness Programs With Financial Incentives Are OK For Access?

We have Wellness programs coming out our ears today and they are not a bad thing but one questions the angles of how this is occurring and data access. With the use of biometric monitoring with devices that report data, we may have some gray areas...

Published Wed, Nov 11 2010 3:21 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, healthcare, privacy, GINA, employers, Data, pharmacy benefit managers, Wellness program

Citi Creates a Transactional Flu Shot Card To Bills Employers Directly For Employee Shots

Corporate America does not want you as an employee to miss work over this so we have something new here to make that $30 flu shot even easier to get. It could also create a data trail to let employers know who has and who had not received a flu...

Published Tue, Nov 11 2010 4:48 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, healthcare, privacy, Flu, transactions, immunizations, Citi, shots

RapLeaf Building Data Bases with Consumer Information–You Are Public Until You Request Otherwise–SQL Queries Creating Data for Sale

This is interesting with the Wall Street Journal continuing the exploration of consumer data on the web. The process that is creating these new data bases is nothing new and has been around for years . You collect the data via their tracking methodologies...

Published Mon, Oct 10 2010 2:41 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, privacy, data bases, Marketing, Internet, Doctors, consumers, Wall Street Journal, algoirthms, RapLeaf, accuracy

Facebook Privacy Breach - Applications Transmitting Personal Identifying Information

Algorithmic marketing has arrived, maybe or unintentional algorithmic marketing as reported by the Wall Street Journal. Back in December of 2009 we had some similar types of issues with money going in some directions to where many were not aware...

Published Mon, Oct 10 2010 2:03 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Technology, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, privacy, Pharma, drug stores, pharmacy benefit managers, shopping, Facebook. social networks, bar coding, identity, Web Coupons, stores

Patients Like Me Experienced Data Mining Through a Data Mining Research Firm Break In –The Nielsen Company

This is sad that websites like Patients Like Me are built for people to help other people through communication and knowledge and when you see members of a forum mining data and reselling and querying data to match and find identities it’s like a pack...

Published Tue, Oct 10 2010 2:25 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, privacy, Patents, Data Mining, queries for money, websites, Facebook. social networks, algoirthims, Patients Like Me

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