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Mergers and acquisitions continue in healthcare and perhaps we will see more like this one? If you have not caught on yet, the financial side is kind of ruling today with acquisitions being on steroids. Part of the reason here too is the combination of data for more extreme business...
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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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The article states that he will be returning to Harvard and this is a tough job to say the least. All over HHS new responsibilities are delving deeper into the actual need to have some hands on experience to help make sense in figuring out what direction to go next. This is happening in every...
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Mon, Feb 7 2011
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We have now moved beyond “meaningful use” and in this case are looking at “meaningful money” of sorts. This is a type of decision that many healthcare companies look at today,do we keep adding on or do we rip out and start from scratch, and money is the top influencer in this case for sure. ...
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Fri, Jan 28 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, Computers, healthcare, Medical Records, Lawsuit, Health IT, Security, Epic, Data, Algorithms, virus, consultants, Methodist Hospitals, Meditch
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Coventry Healthcare found the error and has fixed the algorithm , which is called a “computer glitch” here, but it’s just another algorithm. I am trying my best to educate readers here on the power of those algorithms and how the automated processes control not only the information we receive...
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Tue, Jan 25 2011
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These folks are not doing anything that everyone else in healthcare is doing but since the press release came out today they can be the example of where tons of money goes in Health IT and the question always arises about the ROI on buying more software and algorithms. Should it today be just another...
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Mon, Jan 24 2011
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In case you missed the news, record profits again were maintained by United for the year and the 4th quarter. The Ingenix division is the group that runs all the business intelligence analysis programs and creates software, in other words they write the algorithms. UnitedHealth Group...
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Fri, Jan 21 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, health insurance, Health IT, clinical trials, Life Sciences, Algorithms, Mergers and Acquisitions, Ingenix, inVentiv Health, consulting, Innovus
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Have you not found enough information yet? If you haven’t, well this is the place for you on Meaningful Use. I have a hard enough time curating this information for the Medical Quack and I can’t imagine how providers and hospitals are doing with all of this today, as it changes frequently...
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Wed, Jan 12 2011
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I’ll go back to this one more time and again mention how valuable those with Health IT experience are today. I said this back two years ago after the election that folks with hands on IT experience were needed and that figure heads should be out, and it’s coming full circle. Why do I see...
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Thu, Dec 30 2010
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Hey I have a grand idea here, let’s rate them <grin>, a bad on my part here but with recently writing about all the errors and mistakes on doctor rating sites, could not help myself to give the MDS a little boost if you will. Back in February of 2010 I made this post about the FDA regulating...
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Tue, Nov 16 2010
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Here’s a quote from the press release that says it all and the big decisions these days for CIOs are how many of these do we need and how many can we afford? There are tons of audit services out there like this and the software does what it says it will do, but expect soon a new layer that will...
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Thu, Sep 30 2010
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There’s almost not a day that goes by where there’s not some new mobile application in the news. My question is, what is going to end up being a standard and in fact useful without more glut. I said a while back that mobile meaningful use was overlooked and here we are. I look at some of...
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Mon, Sep 27 2010
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This is an expense where there’s no getting around the need as new algorithms will be needed in order to assist customer service individuals and agents to give you the correct answers and information. After all we all know that any information you received today via a question that is asked comes...
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Fri, Sep 24 2010
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When as a patient you are sick, do you care about whether you are a right or left winger, I would venture to say most of us put that on the back burner when needing care. Here we go again, one more OMG story and Mr. Gingrich is at it again and lack of consumer IT literacy is sticking out once more...
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Sun, Sep 19 2010
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Last month another California hospital in Petaluma received a lone somewhat along the same lines with the purchase of their tax exempt bonds. The Capital Access Small Issuance Program division of United is paying the expenses for the loan which is stated to be at currently competitive rates. ...
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Wed, Sep 1 2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, Health IT, HHS, software, Algorithms, Ingenix, healthcare reform, community health information, Reach for the Top, UnitedHealhtcare, community health, NCQA, California's Critical Access Hospitals