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This is funny as 2 weeks ago I made a post about Congress being a needier group for IBM Watson’s talent, more so than healthcare right now and it turns out it did get to visit, but I think it should should reside there permanently. Again, Watson is not connected to the internet as I understand...
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Tue, Mar 1 2011
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Back in June of 2010 HHS announced $51 Million in grants and that was not enough it appears. This is a tough battle as health insurers come back with their business intelligence generated reports that substantiate their demands for premiums increase. To dispute and look at accurate numbers, they...
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Mon, Feb 28 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, My Commentaries, health insurance, Health IT, Education, Congress, Business Intelligence, Algorithms, United HealthCare, Venture Capital, health reform, balance
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First of all I would like to say thanks to Gary Levin in Riverside for viewing me as a messenger as that’s why I try to do with combining some modern day mathematical processes (algorithms) that work with healthcare today, both the good and maybe not so good sides of what’s happening. It is more...
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Wed, Feb 23 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Congress, Politics, Algorithms, messenger, Health Train Express, Medical bloggers, karma
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Ok reading the title above one might wonder what’s up with this? This is an article here that offers some tips when applying for health insurance and this is directed for those who can afford it . Firs of all to avoid telling any fibs on an application for health insurance, apply to a group...
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Mon, Feb 21 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, health insurance, Congress, Heatlhcare, Risk Management, Algorithms, Laws, applications, private insurance, RSA
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Here we go again with the impossible quest for the perfect answer and there isn’t one but we seem to have those stuck in the 70s still asking the same types of questions and kind of showing some type of juvenile type responses that I would not expect at a testimony as such. I’ll refer to those...
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Fri, Feb 11 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, medicare, Congress, CMS, Politics, Algorithms, Medicare Advantage, healthcare reform, ObamaCare, Non participants, Don Berwick, grilling
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Now this may sound strange but actually it’s a bit of wisdom coming through in a not so anticipated manner. Many of the individuals lobbying here to support the SEC started there and now are on the other side, and believe me they know what’s going on. The agency has long lacked the funds...
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Tue, Feb 8 2011
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Filed under: Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, Facebook, Congress, Budgets, Obama, Algorithms, SEC, lawyers, Goldman Sachs, IT literacy, power, lessons, Whtie House
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Pay and continue to pass go certainly seems to be the rules of the game today. All the major health insurers in California took at hit it seems and it all comes back to getting the data system aligned. They get stuck in cyber space when they do not fall in accordance with the algorithmic...
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Mon, Nov 29 2010
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This is a great article and in the New York Times today and it has been broken down to show the overall mathematics that are used to determine payments. We are again, back to the “A” word that you see plastered in the center of this blog, an algorithm. I just finished watching a PBS documentary...
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Fri, Nov 26 2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, Medicine, medicare, medical billing, Congress, Hospitals, CMS, Doctors, Patients, Pricing, Algorithms, formulas, value, payments, MedPac
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Just to give you an idea it was only in July of 2009 that I wrote about the Cray XC1-LC system and a clip follows below and now we are up to a Cray 6 core 2.6 model, so this is moving fast. The more powerful the system is, the faster those algorithms run whether it is investments or healthcare...
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Mon, Nov 15 2010
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This is basically good news if you fit into the parameters of this next level. It is still a pain and everybody hates this qualification process and when you are sick this is the last thing on one’s mind, but it looks like complicated algorithmic formulas are going to the the path that needs to...
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Wed, Sep 22 2010
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This is nice news when you get to see how profitable some of the Medicare companies are, such as this example below with profits of a billion last year and looking to go beyond that this year. HealthSpring To Pay $545M For Bravo Health Medicare Company With Profits of 1 Billion in 2009-Over 800 Million...
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Tue, Sep 21 2010
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What does STEM and Change the Equation stand for : Science, Technology, Engineering and Math , that’s STEM and working with Algorithms (there’s that word again). Of course readers around the Medical Quack here the technology end of this all the time and enough about the non participants we have...
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Fri, Sep 17 2010
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The CEO of Intel, Paul Otellini seems to make it a point to remind us of this fact about once or twice a year and after what I see today in the news and some of the luddite type of legislation that appears on our landscape, I think he makes some good points, whether or not he can capture the luddite...
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Mon, Aug 30 2010
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Bravo also had profits of over 800 Million in the first half of 2010 and HealthSpring is in the same business with Medicare coverage. In 2012 cuts from Medicare become effective so there’s a good year and a half left at present rates. Bravo Healthcare is a venture backed company and there...
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Fri, Aug 27 2010
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This is sad news and he will be missed and the doctor was best know for all the plastic surgery performed on Heidi Montag, the plastic surgery addict as news has portrayed her of late with so many procedures. He was also the surgeon that cut her off stating that he would no longer perform any additional...
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Fri, Aug 20 2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Social Networks, Mobility, Congress, e-Patient, Money, Survey, Algorithms, role models, Kathleen Sebelius, Non participants, tech denial, non-participants, personal, accidents, Frank Ryan