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Here we go one more time for one of my “favorite” rants (grin). Nobody takes this seriously as we have no role models as we don’t see anyone at top levels, with the exception of President Obama using any technology, look how much press his use of a BlackBerry received a while back. Now there...
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If you read here often enough you see the world algorithm quite a bit as that is what it is all about. If you read about Wall Street, it’s the algorithms there too. I do somewhat get a bit puzzled as to why we call these mathematical formulas “circuit breakers” and other strange names as...
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Wed, May 26 2010
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This goes back to the risk management “algorithm” that was run to find areas for reasons to end policies for those who were not “cost effective” in the course of doing business. Did they run the algorithms, yes they did but it’s not nice to have to see it along with the rest of the nation and save...
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Mon, May 10 2010
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I don’t see as any bad reflection in either way, the woman wants a life again and besides it seems to be contagious these days, look how many Congressmen have announced retirement. Healthcare reform and evolving technology is at the core as we are only human. One More Member of Congress...
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Fri, Apr 9 2010
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Is greed creating anger? Is ignorance allowing greed to grow? Those are just a couple questions popping around in my mind today. When one is in a very public position, and especially those that make decisions that impact the well being of the rest of the nation, well this is what happens...
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Tue, Apr 6 2010
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Patients make more frugal choices he states than the healthcare system when given the information, and they participate, satisfactions and outcomes improve. He says what more could you want. The patient are becoming victims of competition. Most patients according to Dr. Berwick...
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Sun, Mar 28 2010
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History was made yesterday with the House passing the Healthcare Reform bill and a lot of the language and what can and can’t be done is changing. There’s still the one big “loop hole” here called “fraud”. We need business intelligence software to find and eliminate fraud by all means, but...
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Mon, Mar 22 2010
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I really don’t know how much more some member of Congress need to hear, but we need it. During the relief effort for Haiti we heard hospitals crying out for relief and this is somewhat is happening below, 2 hospitals in Miami ready to close and not much help from the City who has their own issues...
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Tue, Mar 16 2010
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This is not lining up against Obama Care in my eyes, it’s rather saying that it is almost non Constitutional to force citizens to purchase insurance from companies that are actively traded on the stock market and have a responsibility to shareholders first , rather than the insured. I have made...
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Fri, Mar 5 2010
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One of the real pluses we have in California is a Governor who is “hands on”, uses technology and shares via new technologies with citizens. He does his fair share as far as getting it out there, so if you want to partake, learn a few new skills on your computer and I think you will be amazed at...
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Thu, Feb 25 2010
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The long wait is over and perhaps a focus from all areas will make this stick. She was right in the fact that it is us, the adults that put so much of this in front of kids, but we put in front of ourselves too, so role model time. I think most of us have battled with that 5-30 pounds here...
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Tue, Feb 9 2010
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When it comes to almost everything we do today, research and development healthcare software, computer operating systems and on and on, we build on either technologies and research that is already done. Starting from scratch on healthcare would be like Microsoft dumping every idea, piece of code...
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Mon, Feb 8 2010
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Nobody in Healthcare either the clinical or IT side will dispute this, at least I don’t think so (grin). I so have to say this is great to have a Governor that not only talks about it, but walks the walk, he uses it. We have a lot of "Magpies” around the web that do a lot of talking...
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Wed, Feb 3 2010
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Well I do have to really give the President an “A” for this approach , as nobody seems to responding to anything else, so hey jump on the bandwagon and let it roll. We have health insurance companies investing in the same technology today with “ behavioral underwriting” with using complex...
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Sun, Jan 31 2010
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Hopefully we will all get educated on what is ruling and running the US today , it’s not Tea Parties or the Soap Opera Congressional press we see everyday, it’s technology along with business models, software and the algorithmic formulas used to carve out money where it did not exist before. Every...
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Sun, Jan 24 2010
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