I try to see both side of this coin and yes having reminders and helpers is not a bad thing at all, it’s just the data side with privacy issues that seem to be the bug here as health insurance companies provide “behavioral underwriting” today to analyze every small item on your agenda. Companies...
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This is interesting as I ponder the contract here giving AT&T a new list of consumers to potentially market? As mentioned before prescription medication information is bought and sold and not covered by HIPAA, so where does this open the doors for 3rd party companies to market you too. The...
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You have to love this! I post about all kinds of technology on this blog and have talked about the Glow Caps project and here’s a few links below. “Seniors are great at setting up networks and internet connections”. Goes back to what I keep saying, we need education and we just don...
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The pilot will start out with a small trial and will graduate to a larger trial based on chronic disease control medications, diabetes, cholesterol, and high blood pressure. Some of the comments in the article stated the messages were annoying but some didn’t mind. The results will be interesting...
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Back about 6 months ago when I started talking about the Blue Tooth Inhaler, everyone thought I was nuts and thought I was talking about Star Wars type of information , well the devices are either on their way shortly or are here. I’ll give you an equation here as to how this works: Medical...
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Somebody brought up this question the other day on how do insurance companies get your medication information. The information below goes back to a post I did about 3 months ago on the two main companies that provide the information for the insurers. I’ll add a little bit more this time to...
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This is what the DEA is recommending for their report on E-Prescribing. The portion about confirming the physician’s authority though is not a bad idea at all in view of the Medicare Fraud this week involving “dead doctors” who were still prescribing medical equipment, an audit process that one...
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