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At least this time we have a year this time so perhaps somewhere along the line a permanent fix could be created. This has gone now for I think around 10 years and correct me if I am wrong here but it’s way over due for a permanent fix as the provisions written 10 years ago don’t apply today. ...
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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 was a study based on Microsoft products but you can read at the end they felt it would be applicable with products outside of theirs as well. Well heck we know that already as we have read how back at Harvard Medical how much they are saving on utility bills, so this is not the one and only...
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Mon, Nov 22 2010
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As of yesterday I believe we have one more 30 day extension and that will last only until the end of the year. It is too bad that Medicare doesn’t operate as inexpensively and efficient as Social Security as far as the tax payer dollars are concerned. Well I guess we are looking at everything...
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Fri, Nov 19 2010
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We have huge groups of “non participants” in Washington that sit in denial with Health IT and so many, the likes of Bill Gates and even Steven Colbert have tried to reach though but it’s like talking to rocks resting on a stack of 8 track tapes and there’s plenty of those in both parties. They...
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Wed, Nov 17 2010
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This is kind of funny actually, coming from a doctor of all things, but being outside the realm of a family practice, he doesn’t seem to get it as this is how the rest of us are handled with provisions and algorithms with eligibility and what gets covered. He worked at Johns Hopkins, so what can...
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Tue, Nov 16 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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The good doctor has hardly been in office long enough to make a dent yet, but hopefully the Senate Finance Committee will be open ears rather than continuing to venture on what we have seen in the news with the “witch-hunt” tactics that have been reported. I really get spooked and fearful as to...
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Thu, Nov 11 2010
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Here we go once more, but this time the stakes are a little higher since the last extension was granted by Congress. Each time the deadline seems to get a bit closer and last time IT changes were made to pay at a lower rate, and then changed back one the extension was voted in. I think everyone...
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Mon, Nov 8 2010
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We already had Cloud services shot down by the Senate which is an up front indication of the lack of literacy in how IT supports Healthcare. That was done earlier this year and the fact that it took both houses so long to even think about regulating peer to peer rules for government employees with...
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Fri, Nov 5 2010
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Healthcare benefits for Congressional staff don’t require any waiting periods or coverage limitations on pre-existing conditions either. The article states there are many vendors who will be on hand to participate and I hope we get some technology folks in there with healthcare so they can...
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The data bases created by pharmacy chains have been an issue for quite a while and there has been some effort made on protecting privacy, but it has not gone far. The information gathered originally was for use by pharma sales reps and has been around for years. As time evolved, the medication...
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Mon, Oct 4 2010
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Jon Stewart does it again with investigating where the US money went from the US and apparently it’s not there yet. He states the money was anonymously held up but he finds out where the snag was and states in the video the senator saw it as a waste? There’s also some humor here too on Sean...
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These folks just worry me to death when it comes to Health IT knowledge and trying to appropriate money and pass laws where there’s either a very low level participation factor with general consumer health IT literacy or none? I watched the whole 2 hours back in January of 2009 and hopefully we...
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Mon, Sep 27 2010
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My translation of some of this is to work together like humans and ease up on the hard core algorithms that have been the bottom line decision making methodologies. We all use computers and software for most of our intelligent decision making processes today and along with ethics need to be taken...
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