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This is funny as 2 weeks ago I made a post about Congress being a needier group for IBM Watson’s talent, more so than healthcare right now and it turns out it did get to visit, but I think it should should reside there permanently. Again, Watson is not connected to the internet as I understand...
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Tue, Mar 1 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Computers, healthcare, Radiology, Congress, Business Intelligence, Politics, Algorithms, SEC, IBM, Watson, knowledge
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Well here it is now from the government. A couple years ago I started posting about behavioral health and mostly relative to insurance companies. They use data to project risk and keep cost down with their algorithms. Guess what, they want the data like everyone else to predict and...
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Mon, Feb 28 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, privacy, Heatlhcare, NIH, Intelligence, wireless, Algorithms, participatory Sensing, business, mobile heatlh, mHeatlh, devices that record data, predictive behavior
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First of all I would like to say thanks to Gary Levin in Riverside for viewing me as a messenger as that’s why I try to do with combining some modern day mathematical processes (algorithms) that work with healthcare today, both the good and maybe not so good sides of what’s happening. It is more...
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Wed, Feb 23 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Congress, Politics, Algorithms, messenger, Health Train Express, Medical bloggers, karma
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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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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Business Intelligence, Code, Algorithms, formulas, Banks, Steve Jobs, President Obama, Larry Ellison, jobs, JPMorgan, Chief of Staff
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I don’t have to do too much explaining as to why this new agency exists. Transparency and not fooling the consumer with complicated small print and “algorithms” of computation that also take advantage are the name of the game here. The web site is brand new and just getting started. ...
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Tue, Feb 8 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Education, Government, Transparency, White House, Algorithms, Elizabeth Warren, fine print, Consumer Financial Bureau
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Now this may sound strange but actually it’s a bit of wisdom coming through in a not so anticipated manner. Many of the individuals lobbying here to support the SEC started there and now are on the other side, and believe me they know what’s going on. The agency has long lacked the funds...
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Tue, Feb 8 2011
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Filed under: Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, Facebook, Congress, Budgets, Obama, Algorithms, SEC, lawyers, Goldman Sachs, IT literacy, power, lessons, Whtie House
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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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More and more we keep hearing about hackers getting into servers and websites and as this article states, motives can be varied. The article from the Wall Street Journal states this has been going on for a year or so without being able to find the source of who or where the hacking is coming from...
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Sun, Feb 6 2011
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Filed under: Technology, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, Security, software, White House, Insider Trading, Servers, Algorithms, hackers, stock, High Frequency Trading, unintended consequences, SEC. NASDAQ, Director's Desk, failover
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Tech Talk: With all this speed, the line and balance between investors and speculators is becoming increasingly volatile and unpredictable.This article suggests setting up a simulated “Wall Street” trading market to understand more fully how it works and how the posting falls into place. ...
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Fri, Jan 28 2011
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Filed under: Technology, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, health insurance, Medical Claims, Money, Algorithms, SEC, stock, High Frequency Healthcare, spreadsheet, High Frequency Trading, unintended consequences
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The reason for this is due to the “scare” factor that comes along with cancer and and critics on the other side say this is not a good idea to tie into emotions for a value. What is used now is the “value of a statistical life” and at some point in someone’s data, especially insurance carriers...
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Mon, Jan 24 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Cancer, Budgets, Algorithms, Risk, death, fear, statistics, screenings, EPA, value of life, mortality
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We can hide debt and Mr. Murray feels that one’s “word” has slipped away. All the checks and balances have failed as the SEC was not there. Why, the SEC didn’t invest in the current technologies to perform audits in real time and keep up with the algorithmic processes being used and instead...
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Wed, Jan 19 2011
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Filed under: Technology, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, Coding, Wall Street, Algorithms, High Frequency Healthcare, jobs, Silicon Valley, High Frequency Trading, CEI, Gordon Murray
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Programmers (those who write the algorithms) are finding out that there’s more money on the trading side of technology with writing code over here and the article from the Wall Street Journal says once they are there, the employees rarely leave. Employees are writing code that leads to the bottom...
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Tue, Jan 18 2011
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When you stop and think about it, all Facebook constitutes is bunch of servers that host images, emails and some applications (algorithms) and that’s about it. Unless you buy a shirt, coffee cup, etc. with Facebook on it, it’s all intangibles worth around $50 Billion. I still have a hard...
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Tue, Jan 18 2011
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Filed under: Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, Investors, Facebook, Heatlhcare, Investments, Data, Algorithms, IPO, SEC, Goldman Sachs, addictions, electronic trading
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First it was pressure on the CIOs and now it’s spreading to the CTO’s, maybe? It’s going to be harder to keep folks in these position as they are smart and have tons of ideas and some good methodologies but technology is still somewhat “thankless” if you will as so many still don’t understand the...
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Tue, Jan 11 2011
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The company has also put itself on the block for sale with a couple of Private Equity firms showing interest with the auction. According to this update they have cancelled due to a conflict of interest in scheduling. I have a few items here at the Quack about the company to include re-organization...
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Fri, Jan 7 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Biotech, Business Intelligence, software, Code, Algorithms, JP Morgan, private equity, data warehouse, Beckman Coulter