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Why do we hear so much about privacy in the media today? Have not all the issues been settled? The simple answer is “no”. Not all the issues have been settled nor will there ever be universal bright lines that make the topics of privacy, confidentiality and security simple to understand and easy to implement...
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Fri, Apr 6 2012
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Filed under: hipaa, CMS, EHR, Health IT, Healthcare, DrFirst, E-Prescribing, Medication Adherence, privacy, DOD, Welcome to blog.drfirst, EHR Vendors, health security, sec, securities
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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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The Medical Quack
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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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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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The Medical Quack
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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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Last year Home Diagnostics was sold to Nipro Corporation and the case here involves alleged information being given out before the transactions took place and of course there were those who benefited financially. The press release was from June of 2010 and you can read the archive here. ...
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Mon, Feb 7 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, CEO, Medical Devices, FDA, Diabetes, Glucose, Blood samples, Insider Trading, Profits, Mergers and Acquisitions, SEC, Nirpo, Home Diagnostics
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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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The Medical Quack
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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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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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The Medical Quack
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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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When read how much Goldman is putting in of their own, it is small compared to what they are bringing in from other investors, and as I understand it is by invitation only. Goldman is investing in what they know – ALGORITHMS. That’s what runs their shop and they have plenty of Algo...
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The Medical Quack
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Wed, Jan 5 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, Facebook, Algorithms, IPO, SEC, healthcare reform, Goldman Sachs, Pledge to America, IT literacy, power, Boehner, lessons
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This article makes one statement for sure is that someone is ready to gamble on just about anything. This kind of dilutes the seriousness of the situation when investors basically are sitting back and bet on the outcome of litigation. So now it appears bets outside of the normal areas of...
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So what it the world is an “Algo Man”? For that matter it could be a woman too but these are the folks with the brains that know how to put technology to work. Brokers on Wall Street don’t hardly ever go to a heavy meeting without their “algo man” as they realize some of the details and...
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The Medical Quack
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Fri, Oct 1 2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, My Commentaries, healthcare, Health IT, Congress, Budgets, HIMMS, SEC, testimonies, algoirthms, health IT literacy, Its for Those Guys Over There, Algo man
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This is yet even another incident with life insurance policies sold to the military. You can read the entire article and see how they were using “raffles” and offering prize money to buy insurance in addition to the similar side funds in the news a few day ago. Is it any wonder we don’t have this...
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The Medical Quack
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Mon, Aug 2 2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, VA, Nurse, Algorithms, Greed, Profits, military, SEC, life insurance, audit trail, tranparency, JPMorgan, Prudential, death benefits, FDIC, Illionis
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I had to stop and read this twice as soldier death benefits paid to families upon death are being monetized to the point of creating profits and the “checks” sent are no good. The life insurance companies are banking on the fact that many families do not use the money right away and hold on to...
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The Medical Quack
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Thu, Jul 29 2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, VA, Nurse, Algorithms, Greed, Profits, military, SEC, life insurance, audit trail, tranparency, JPMorgan, Prudential, death benefits, FDIC
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IHHI should almost have their own book or soap opera as they have been through some very unusual ups and downs and the chain must have 9 lives. Apparently things are coming back under order since the former owner is now back in charge, and his funding comes from a hedge fund. We are seeing...
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Tue, Jul 13 2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Hospital, healthcare, Investors, Hospitals, Orange County, Money, IHHI, SEC, funds, Medical Capital Holdings, Mogel, MedCap, Chaudhuri, hedge fund, UnitedHealthGroup
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In several appearances she stated the test was 100% accurate on whether or not a fetus would be born with down syndrome. She knew the truth and still told everyone it was perfect in essence. The product never materialized and it misled investors at the same time. Sometimes when writing...
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The Medical Quack
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Thu, Jun 3 2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Biotech, Marketing, Heatlhcare, SEC, tests, lies, down syndrome, Sequenom, trials
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On the flash crash, as an observer and reader, I added my technology guesses here as from what I read this is what it sounded like to me. Some trading house have upgraded to some new powerful Xeon processors and we are at the speeds right now where this has to be taken into consideration as perhaps...
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Wed, May 26 2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Wall Street, Algorithms, Audit Trails, SEC, stock market, Non participants, exchanges, securities
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The article was written by Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks and I have included part of what he had to say here, as we have health insurers right in this game too. In addition to their own stocks, they invest in others and how do they make their money if not all from internal dollars? ...
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The Medical Quack
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Mon, May 10 2010
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Filed under: Insurance, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Congress, Wall Street, Investments, Algorithms, Audit Trails, formulas, SEC, coders, hackers, Non participants, Main Street