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The second part of this title might have a lot to do with what is happening with hospitals playing hardball at times and walking away from insurance carriers. When you stop and look at how the business has operated over the years it’s somewhat hard to say the insurers have really been what one...
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I really don’t know how much more some member of Congress need to hear, but we need it. During the relief effort for Haiti we heard hospitals crying out for relief and this is somewhat is happening below, 2 hospitals in Miami ready to close and not much help from the City who has their own issues...
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03-16-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, Hospitals, Budgets, Obama, Medical Services, Patients, Desperate Hospitals, healthcare reform, Jackson Health System, Haiti, emergency funds
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Jackson Health System is in financial hurt as governing board of the Jackson Health System that acts on behalf of the Miami-Dade County Commission is in a stew for finding new and faster emergency revenue to keep the hospitals open. After the hurricane in Haiti, the system provided a ton...
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03-12-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, Hospitals, Budgets, Medical Services, Patients, Desperate Hospitals, healthcare reform, Jackson Health System, Haiti, emergency funds
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This is how one country is doing it, with the Government jumping in for relief. Granted Australia is not quite as bad in the economic hurt area as the US is right now so they have some additional positives going in their direction. What is being emphasized here too is standards and better...
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03-05-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Health IT, Hospitals, elections, integration, Australia, Standards, healthcare reform, Prime Minister, taxes
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Time to revisit this topic once more. I have been the gambit on some of this, even going into hospitals and seeing Lime-Wire installed on employee PCs with IT managers not adequately policing group policy on their servers. This is somewhat an issue too as when you advise the employee at that...
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Compression sleeves and pulse oximeters are at the top of the list, but there are more. Companies buy the used devices, clean then, and then resell the products back to the hospitals. It is one way of keeping down the amount of medical devices that go to landfills. Now many of these...
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Hospitals continue to struggle with the balance of commercially insured patients with those who are under or not insured. The 2 recent posts are examples of how hospitals are working to further efficiencies and maintain lower costs. Hospitals have fixed costs in many areas, some of which...
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02-24-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Surgery, health insurance, Business Intelligence, Tenet, Hospitals, Heatlh IT, Admissions, Uninsured Patients, ER, healthcare reform, stock market, under insured patients
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This is something I thought was worth a mention as many may not even know this opportunity exists. If your care needed is beyond perhaps what local healthcare facilities may be able to give and there are other hospitals outside your general travel area, you may just be in luck with a way to get...
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This is a response to an article in Modern Healthcare and certainly the writer is making his point which we do need physicians on the same track with using technology. Now let’s step back into the “real” world. We have physicians at every level of technology in healthcare today, so guess...
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It appears that Cigna card if you are one of their insured has additional access now in Russia to a rather large number of hospitals and clinics, who will bill Cigna directly. I wonder what their billing processes are or if they had to enroll in specialized training to learn how to use the US billing...
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The story of this 4 hospital chain has had just about a little bit of everything here and of course money woes and the SEC investigation of their financer just adds icing to the cake. This is what happened to some of the money: SEC Investigation Finds Medical Capital Holdings Diverting Investor...
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02-12-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Investors, Hospitals, Orange County, Money, IHHI, SEC, funds, Medical Capital Holdings, MedCap
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If you have been around in the medical records business a while, you have probably heard of NextGen who’s ambulatory solutions were one of the first on the market. As we continue to see mergers and acquisitions, here we have the ability to combine technologies and offer larger and complete Health...
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02-11-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, EHR, Health IT, Mobility, Hospitals, CCHIT, NextGen, Quality Systems, Mergers and Acquisitions, Cloud, Opus
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As we keep seeing and living the rising cost of healthcare, other countries are wanting to cater to American Health Tourism patients, if you can’t have it done in the US and if money’s an issue, talk to us seems to be the message coming across from many countries. In a related article , Cuba would...
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02-10-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, Surgery, health insurance, Hospitals, Travel, Medical Tourism, Miami, Financing, Healtcare, Texas, Cuba, Costa Rica
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Additional hospitals were added this year to include hospitals in Philadelphia and Denver. If I were running a hospital, this might be something I would look into and apply for to help those who need to travel for healthcare procedures and treatments! The program has been in existence for...
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As the CEO of United has stated “Our shareholders will prosper” and this appears to be a pretty stiff penalty as clerical errors will and do arise. Already we have the never-never events for hospitals to work with which are designed around more safety items than anything else. Why do they...
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01-25-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, health insurance, Hospitals, Government, Data, Algorithms, New York, United HealthCare, Ingenix, healthcare reform, Patients Not Profit, state laws, Continuum