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Everyone is marketing to try and predict and of course in healthcare this is prevalent too and “why they market their ass off”. Tracking and snooping is part of marketing if you have not figured that out yet today. In the video below even ABC has finally come out to state how insurance tracks...
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If you have not seen the news the President is meeting with some of the brightest leaders in technology today. I have been saying this for a couple years now at the Medical Quack that intelligence and decisions in healthcare are being derived from those algorithms and that’s what the talk here...
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Thu, Feb 17 2011
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Patrick Soon-Shiong M.D. is the Los Angeles billionaire investor who has scooped up the company. Overall the product is a good thing as far as the reminder system and keep folks on track. My only concerns is the privacy factors and the data that it creates for sale. In today’s world...
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Fri, Feb 4 2011
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This is a pesticide if you look up spinosad in Wikipedia and now one more approved methodology of getting rid of head lice. Natroba is the solution that appears to contain the same ingredient as what we used for getting rid of other pests and formulas for human use. BD SILVER SPRING, Md....
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We also now have private equity firms buying hospitals. There’s a hospital and clinic group in southern California called Prime Healthcare and they basically bought up hospitals who were upside down financially and many times it was either a purchase or go out of business. I believe the group...
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Thu, Jan 13 2011
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You can read the entire article at the New York Times but in essence the President ran out of folks who could help him out with the technological war far that is occurring and thus has reached out and grabbed William M. Daley who works in the financial industry . They work worth with algorithms day in...
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Thu, Jan 6 2011
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The concept of the pill bottle is good and can be helpful but the side of all of this are the profits that it creates for Health IT companies to sell your data. It is what it is. The Colbert Report did a funny video on the Glow Caps a while back too, funny. The Colbert Report Takes...
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Tue, Jan 4 2011
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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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The systems keep getting more complicated and as human bodies we are shoved into data bases, analyzed and sometimes treated less than human when inquires are sent or claim denials are questioned. Unfortunately our health insurance industry sees us humans as “numbers” first it seems. That...
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Thu, Nov 18 2010
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There’s some real word of wisdom here and it comes around to what I talk about with healthcare. I included a few of the comments and statements made below and be aware of the one below referencing doctors and scientists for sure. When you think about what the doctor is doing, especially with...
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Sat, Nov 6 2010
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In writing and following the daily news as to what is taking place here in California and all over the US, it appears reform is getting to be much more complicated than anticipated with waivers and insurance carriers battling with what they want to allow and it’s once again all boiling down to money...
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Thu, Oct 7 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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Well it might cost you just a bit more to have the assurance that your office, hospital or other healthcare facility is coding correctly if you subscribe to the services (algorithms) offered by A-Life Medical which is now part of Ingenix. The United Behemoth grows again with acquisition number...
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Tue, Sep 21 2010
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A few months ago we had this desktop analytics software emerge and now the next level up is to address the CTOs and CIOs it sounds like and I hope someday those job don’t turn into one big algorithm >grin>. Ingenix (UnitedHealthCare Subsidiary) Creates Desktop Software for Employers to Analyze...
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Wed, Aug 25 2010
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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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Mon, Aug 16 2010
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