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This is huge and will be an entire new community where the former Air Force Base exists, March LifeCare Campus. Today you can watch and listen to the ceremonies of the demolition that begins before the ground breaking. This will also help bring jobs to the inland empire outside of...
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07-27-2010
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Hearing reports like this bothers me as I am sure it bugs others too. In April we had all the folks at the SEC watching porn too. Are we not adults to where we need baby sitters at government levels? It sure sounds like we have some folks who may not be in the adult category. ...
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07-23-2010
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Here’s the latest results and more so than most insurers, United is a big conglomerate today of many types of businesses and sometimes it’s hard to see all the type of businesses they own due to subsidiary action, which is a key to watch today in order to get some type of idea where projections may go...
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07-20-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, healthcare, medicare, health insurance, Hospitals, UnitedHealthcare, Lobbying, Doctors, Algorithms, healthcare reform, shareholders, vote, dividends, meeting, executives
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This an interesting stimulus story as it’s doing good putting people to work and getting training, but on the other hand so many hospitals are laying off too? Perhaps the layoffs have stabilized for now and at any rate it can’t hurt to have some free training and get started in a new direction...
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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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07-13-2010
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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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Today is the day most in Health IT have been waiting for with the new regulations and rules. The New England Journal of Medicine has condensed the 864 pages (embedded below) of the new rules and regulations into a simple graphic format, and you can right click and use “save as” or view the image...
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07-13-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, EMR, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, Hospitals, HHS, Heatlh IT, obesity, Government, Politics, Doctors, Patients, Surgeon General, stimulus, healthcare reform, Meaningful Use, role models, ONC, Magpies, picking, HHSInsurance
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Just a couple weeks ago one NHS Hospital was going to be the pilot and now it appears the change is nationwide. Doctors and nurses will cross over into the area of being “creative technologists” with better methodologies of delivering care. NHS Hospital Changing to Put Doctors and Nurses Back in...
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07-12-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, UK, Hospitals, Budgets, NHS, Doctors, Clinicians, nurses, pilot, Wythenshawe Hospital
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The report is out today and in looking through the states, in California, we have 2? Either we have a long way to go or some facilities were maybe missed? California Stanford Hospital and Clinics: Most Wired University of California San Diego Medical Center: Most Wired and Most Wireless I...
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Rutgers University's School of Environmental and Biological Sciences would grow the pot and provide to 16 teaching hospitals. Patients would be registered by the hospitals and place orders online to pick up at the pharmacy. Interesting enough too is that they would provide pot in in pill...
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07-12-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, healthcare, Hospitals, Research and Development, New Jersey, Marijuana, Pot, Medical Marijuana, universities, Rutgers teaching hospitals
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CHS is the largest hospital company bought and sold on the stock exchange. We are starting to see more non profits moving to the “for profit” areas of business . Again with company subsidiaries sometimes we might miss who is actually the owner as it is one step up the ladder to see the ultimate...
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07-10-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Hospitals, Community Hospitals, Wall Street, Non Profit, Investments, for profit, stock exchange, QHR, Marion Regional Healthcare, CHS
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We are starting to see more discounts given when asking for them at healthcare facilities as the cost and listed prices are in many cases non-affordable, especially when one does not have insurance coverage and doctors and hospitals alike are beginning to realize that discounted payments mean the difference...
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07-07-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, health insurance, Physicians, Hospitals, Cost, Washington, websites, PriceDoc.com, bidding for healthcare
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This is a step in a new direction for the NHS and we have similar issues here in the US. In this pilot program doctors and nurses will be given the opportunity to control the delivery of patient care, should be a real plus for patients. Over the years we have had analysis systems trying to...
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07-04-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, UK, Hospitals, Budgets, Bill Gates, NHS, Doctors, Clinicians, nurses, pilot, Wythenshawe Hospital
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Here we go once more with security breaches relating to healthcare, which really is a big deal but look at how slow Congress is too. The link below was from a couple months ago and when I say we need roll models with leaders with technology, need I say anymore. The P2P Cyber Protection and...
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In addition to the surgical procedures, authorities are questioning if and how medical record information was either entered inaccurately or changed to indicate a higher percentage of blockage with the patients who underwent surgery. When a comparison was run against other doctors performing the...
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06-12-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, healthcare, Cardiology, Stents, Hospitals, Fraud, Doctors, Procedures, Patients, Peer Reviews, Maryland
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The comments here are interesting in the fact that one eludes to patients feeling they have a right to healthcare and I don’t think it so much the “right” that has impact, it’s the system we are operating in, the same system that is underpaying, overworking and frustrating physicians. Well guess...