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This is something that is long over due. With all the mergers and acquisitions that have occurred in the last 2 years, the companies are not the same in structure and subsidiaries as they were just a few years ago. Not only do we have subsidiaries putting money to the bottom line profits...
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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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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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Just today I posted this video with Bill Gates who made the comment about how depressing all of this is and it depresses me too. Economics is not good at measuring and finding value with innovation as those biased make a real mess of everything. Bill Gates on Reinventing Capitalism–Building...
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Mon, Aug 30 2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, My Commentaries, healthcare, Medical Records, Electronic Medical Records, Congress, Hospitals, Senate, Doctors, Laws, Wellpoint, security breaches, House, peer to peer, Non participants, tech denial
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Hands Off Our Medicare is a non profit organization committed to bringing back the single pay option and based on what is occurring today who knows we could end up back there by default. The video was in support of Medicare’s 45h birthday. While we watched HHS and their efforts and listened...
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Tue, Aug 3 2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, medicare, Congress, Budget Cuts, CMS, Seniors, Profits, healthcare reform, single pay system, not profit organizations
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This is a help and you can pick and choose which alerts you want to receive by email and perhaps in time we could see some of the announcements on Twitter? That’s on the “wish list” here and is my comment. As we are all getting so much busier in life the data overload just keeps on rolling...
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Thu, Jul 29 2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, My Commentaries, healthcare, health insurance, Health IT, Education, Congress, Algorithms, Insurance premiums, State of California, Vivek Kundra, websites, health reform, balance
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If you are a regular reader here you know I have posted several articles about the big investment United has made with Cisco systems and a few other videos as well The link below was from an article from about this time last year. It kind of keeps us in check as to what is going on with both...
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Thu, Jul 1 2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, health insurance, Cisco, Physicians, Congress, Business Intelligence, UnitedHealthcare, payers, Telehealth, balance, monopoly
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Thank goodness Congress acted and gave the extension until December 1st, but we have the other side at CMS looking at their budget saying we want to cut based on the sustainable growth rate formula by 6.1%, which needs to go away as at this point with current series of events over the years that have...
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Fri, Jun 25 2010
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This adds more support to a permanent fix for the Medicare compensation fix too, a good thing. Perhaps this group can make some impact where others have not been able to get their attention. Most members of Congress from what I read though, are “non participants” in most areas of healthcare themselves...
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Wed, Jun 23 2010
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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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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
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I talk a lot about the need for education and have commented frequently on how are consumers going to understand how to use “Quicken Health” if they don’t understand how to use a personal health record? Intuit confirms this now with their own study. This is not rocket science research, just...
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Tue, Apr 27 2010
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We talk about super computing on Wall Street and I mention occasionally how this technology slips over to healthcare and here’s one prime example. Obviously with risk management with health insurers, this would appear to be a company they would consider watching. Already major pharma companies...
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Tue, Apr 27 2010
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It’s getting tough around Washington being a non participant without some tech knowledge these days and one more Congressman Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Michigan, said he’s going to retire. So far we have had 20 Republicans announce retirement and 15 Democrats. It’s getting hot in the oven in Washington...
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Fri, Apr 9 2010
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Does the average person care about how many seats one party or the other has, I don’t really think so as that does not impact their day to day life very much but does the average American think about healthcare reform, you bet. If you think it makes a difference on whether or not you “like” a Congress...
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Fri, Mar 12 2010
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Well I’m waiting for the blog to start asking for opinions and suggestions here, it’s what people do that don’t know what to do. Here we have one more meeting to “talk” about this again. We have had months of talk and all I see is a whole bunch of leaders that in fact appear not to be leaders...
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Thu, Feb 25 2010
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It looks like we have a breakthrough here with perhaps a new type of law or at least some baby steps to get there. I have said for the last 2 years we may need a “Department of Algorithms” to legally file and enforce laws. This is coming and it’s just a matter of time until some folks come...
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Sun, Feb 21 2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, health insurance, Congress, Algorithms, Laws, SEC, legislation, heatlhcare reform, digital laws, tech denial, Feinsten