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Patients and doctors have been preparing advanced directives and living wills for years and if kept in it’s proper context, it is a good thing and sure you want to have this conversation with a doctor you trust and feel capable of talking to you about it and takes the time, and thus so they should get...
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Tue, Dec 28 2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, medicare, health insurance, Fraud, Coding, ethics, Advanced Directive, heatlhcare reform, costs, algoirthms, Algo man, end of life
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This will allow records from the VA and rural healthcare providers to share and coordinate medical records. This scores some additional revenue for United Healthcare as the company is owned by Ingenix, which is a subsidiary of United. Axolotl (A Subsidiary of Ingenix) Creates Reporting and...
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Fri, Dec 3 2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Health IT, VA, HIE, Ingenix, ARRA, aggregation, algoirthms, United Health Group, Axolotl, health inforamtion exchange
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One more acquisition from Humana and everyone is in the algorithmic data game as the more they know about you and how you act, the more they are investing in technologies to not only predict but to also monitor how you live. Last week we had the announcement of a web based game to gain information...
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Mon, Nov 22 2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, healthcare, health insurance, Data, Humana, wellness, biometric monitoring, algoirthms, Concentra
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The systems keep getting more complicated and as human bodies we are shoved into data bases, analyzed and sometimes treated less than human when inquires are sent or claim denials are questioned. Unfortunately our health insurance industry sees us humans as “numbers” first it seems. That...
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Thu, Nov 18 2010
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This is funny with the discussion on political science and those algorithms. Those leaders in politics do not get it and this funny video makes that point loud and clear and listen to what the the definition of a political scientist involves . Be a professor of politics and focus on the BS...
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Mon, Nov 1 2010
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Filed under: Other Items of Interest, Need a Laugh, My Commentaries, Humor, Politics, Non participants, Journals, algoirthms, Algo Men, PhD, political humor, IT illiteracy, Political Science
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I enjoyed watching the show and the under currents and statements they made were loud and clear. I focus on this from a healthcare point of view and so much of what he said was true. Yes, there was a bit of an attack on the press and yes some of this is very true, I see it all the time being...
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Sat, Oct 30 2010
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Filed under: Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Daily Show, Jon Stewart, analytics, algoirthms, 12 step addictions, Charles Seife, numbers, desired results, mathmatics, Proofiness, rogue algorithm, books, Rally to Restore Sanity, Steven Colbert
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This about improving financial relationships with the Home Care area and the company specializes in working with hospitals and how to grow their bottom line. Aegis was born from Vanderbilt University and interestingly enough was just sold this week to a private equity firm Metalmark Capital. ...
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Mon, Oct 25 2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, Physicians, Hospitals, Nursing Homes, Orange County, Studies, algoirthms, efficiencies, St Josephs Home Healthcare, Metalmark Capital, Aegis Health Group
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This is interesting with the Wall Street Journal continuing the exploration of consumer data on the web. The process that is creating these new data bases is nothing new and has been around for years . You collect the data via their tracking methodologies, table it, write an SQL statement to match...
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Mon, Oct 25 2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, privacy, data bases, Marketing, Internet, Doctors, consumers, Wall Street Journal, algoirthms, RapLeaf, accuracy
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The joint venture with Tenet was announced in May of 2009. You can also read more on the Med3000 website here with their activities with Tenet. This involved a medical records system as well as practice management software and below is a short quote on how they are successfully managing...
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Tue, Oct 19 2010
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This comes right back around to what I have been saying for 2 years again, it’s those algorithms and the general public does not understand this and this story below goes through those motions. Nobody at Aetna would solve the issue in a way that it could be communicated back to the patient that...
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Sun, Oct 17 2010
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Filed under: Insurance, Microsoft/Windows News, My Commentaries, health insurance, Aetna, Fraud, Coding, ethics, heatlhcare reform, costs, algoirthms, Algo man
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This is pretty much a no brainer in concept as many of the new devices and what is being approved revolves around software, thus they might think about understanding the basic concepts of what software (algorithms) does. Actually this could be a good move as more would perhaps jump into the consumer...
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Wed, Oct 13 2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Medical Devices, FDA, Congress, software, Transparency, Non participants, algoirthms, Algo man
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Scoring and risk assessments can still continue until these provisions of healthcare reform come into place in a few years. With reform, carriers can adjust their algorithms up and down so the parameters to be met can change. We have no idea on what they are but I have said in the past such...
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Wed, Oct 13 2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, health insurance, MIB, Algorithms, Profits, cherry picking, algoirthms, risk assessment, pre-existing medical conditions, costing
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I have been quite vocal about everybody and their mobile apps and it’s time to begin aggregating some of this stuff, you know kind of like what Microsoft did years ago with taking Word, Excel, etc. and creating an Office Suite. Every day today we have new healthcare apps showing up and again it is up...
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Tue, Oct 12 2010
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If you did not see this on 60 Minutes this week, take a look and get educated on how fast things are moving today. Keep in mind we are insured for our healthcare with companies living right within the community too. When a healthcare claim is filed, it’s going through technological motions...
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Tue, Oct 12 2010
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We all know about the new Medicare rules and guidelines too but I had to somewhat chuckle a little when I read the line below from the Aetna executive who basically had dreams of eliminating the need all together for hospitalization and that goal might be a little too over-zealous because that won’t...