It does make one wonder how large can it grow. United Health Group is certainly growing by leaps and bounds with technology and it’s getting difficult to keep up with all the subsidiaries they have these days to include a bank, several wellness companies, other data base companies and we still...
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How connected will we become to monitor our hearts? That seems to be a big question today and we also need the availability of the receiving end, the doctors and nurses to evaluated and communicate. This appears to be the move here with insurance companies expanding on the use of monitoring...
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Are you tired of analytical software yet? Here’s one more software tool aimed at the employer to help manage their employee benefits as relates to health insurance and what the employees are opting for or what services they could using that are cheaper, like encouraging employees to use generic...
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Here’s my equation for wireless – the data needs to go somewhere. If you are a regular reader here you have seen everything Eric Topol talks about and a lot more. What is cool is to see him wearing the stick on heart monitor. What we do lack here is knowledge and balance. ...
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We have new entry into the body monitoring, behavioral information data arena, but unlike other that clip on, this one sticks on. I guess the closer the devices get the better the data? This one is not here the US, well yet anyway, but we have few others around . They all talk...
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It appears education is beginning to take part in television, and use through TV media can help reach some of those who may not use the internet as a prime source of healthcare information via using shows as such. If you are not familiar with the television show, individuals are enrolled to basically...
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USAA Bank is privately held and only has one location, but has used mobile applications in part to move up into the top 20 banks in the US. This is actually pretty cool, take a picture of your check and send it off and money is deposited. USAA Bank also offers health insurance benefits through...
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I am not sure I quite understand the purpose of this entire methodology, but is this company trying to re-invent themselves are insurers do? Again, speaking from what is published and what I have read, are we trying to make use of data that has already been accumulated, queried in a different fashion...
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De-identification of data base material, it’s all in a query and who’s running it. As far as I know, it’s not illegal to run queries and when matches are made, one has the rap sheet on any one of us. De-identified data bases are marketed and sold all the time for all types of purposes, genomic...
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