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When you stop and think about endorsements I feel this one is important, why? Dr. Halamka is not only a doctor but also a computer science expert, so there’s a lot of knowledge rolled into one person, not to mention the ability he has to talk and share his knowledge and ideas with all . Bill...
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It was just a couple months ago the company made this acquisition to grow the corporation and spent $800 Million, but as you can see when restructuring come in to play with algorithms for profit, this does not do much for those in areas to where growth is not anticipated. Medtronic Acquires Hypertension...
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Tue, Feb 22 2011
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Whether you are in a union, or have never been in a union, if collective bargaining were to go away, you will not like it on either side if you are in the middle class in America. Everyone wonders why doctors never get together and speak up much, well they are today here in Wisconsin. We...
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Sun, Feb 20 2011
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Half baked is a lot of what we are getting out there today . Everyone in different aspects of Health IT has their own special interest and some of these areas are not playing very well with other technologies. Take a look and think about why in the world do we have so many electronic medical...
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Fri, Feb 18 2011
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Once I saw the announcement, and being I live in the OC, time to go check it out and so far I like what I see. The format is easy enough to use and the profiles of the doctors are included. I originally posted about the service back in 2010 when they made their debut in New York. The...
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Wed, Feb 16 2011
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You have to love this one…Dr. Smith wants to get set up and doesn’t understand..like most of the rest of us. My hospital and I try to save money for the insurance companies, if any is left I will give you some… The lawyers are in charge… the doctor wants to make sure he can address the risks of...
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Fri, Jan 28 2011
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This is the biggest filing to create nothing more than a huge distraction and source of disruption that I have seen this year. Again, like so many other items we see in the news today, with the general consumer having no idea how data and mathematics works, this is yet just one more exploit. ...
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Tue, Jan 25 2011
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Here we go again talking about the expensive “data resets” that everybody in technology understands and gets but there’s some politicians out there that don’t seem to be able to digest that this is there and the expense behind it. Even Walgreens, 2 days after the election said they couldn’t afford...
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Mon, Jan 10 2011
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One of the largest complaints from the nurses is the “staffing by numbers”, in other words all patient conditions are not equal and one nurse may have 6 patients who require a lot of care and when the mix of patients who require less care is not considered, the nurses state patients are not getting the...
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Sat, Dec 25 2010
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There’s a lot of money in writing these financial algorithms and here’s one more case with profits going to the bottom line of the parent company. In reading this press release though it seems that the cost to the healthcare system will be minimal which is a good deal for them; however the money...
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Tue, Dec 21 2010
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Here we go again with money owed to physicians and the big job of calculating the differences on claims already paid. Again, I hope some folks soon come out of denial and come to understand he money and time involved here. Certainly I would like to see the process work for the doctors, but...
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Mon, Dec 13 2010
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Here we go once again I believe with an uncompleted understanding of IT technology and a sample of illiteracy at the lawmaking level and why I keep talking about this issue as those folks living in the 70s scare me as they don’t get it. I’ll go back to my words of choice here and once again use...
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Wed, Dec 1 2010
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As I am reading the content here, this breakdown and potential strike issue is about “working conditions” and not benefits and money. Hospital Corporation of America is the one of the largest “for profit” hospital chains in the US. This has been an interesting year in the for profit business...
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Tue, Nov 30 2010
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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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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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