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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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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, healthcare, Congress, Washington DC, Politics, Entertainment, Democrats, collaboration, healthcare reform, Non participants, GOP, Ignorance, filibuster
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This is where some of your tax dollars go, and maybe we might have already been keyed into some of this, well depending on your age zone (grin). The focus here too is to let individuals know what if you are healthier to begin with and work at healthy lifestyles, then your sex life could be longer...
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I first posted about the project back in September of 2008 and CMS is now extending the pilot program. You can view the demo pages here that show the various screens available for the patients. What is nice is to be able to search Medicare claims to see what is being processed and what...
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03-12-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Medical Records, medicare, PHR, Personal Health Records, CMS, HealthIT, DOD, TriCare, MyPHRSC, Medicare PHR Choice, pilot
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Jackson Health System is in financial hurt as governing board of the Jackson Health System that acts on behalf of the Miami-Dade County Commission is in a stew for finding new and faster emergency revenue to keep the hospitals open. After the hurricane in Haiti, the system provided a ton...
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03-12-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, Hospitals, Budgets, Medical Services, Patients, Desperate Hospitals, healthcare reform, Jackson Health System, Haiti, emergency funds
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With the talk of reform and policy cost improving, there’s still a lot of money in the till for acquisitions it appears. You can check out the website and again this i s one more program focused at employers. They have a gym in Seattle that goes along with the program. They also have...
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The focus here is for more money spent on preventive care, but when the big ones come, such as a knee or hip, or even cardiac care, it will be more out of pocket for the employees here. It is lowering the cost on the preventive side, where we can usually afford, but passing along the bigger expense...
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03-12-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, health insurance, Blue Cross, preventive medicine, Doctors, Algorithms, Blue Shield, formulas, ER, healthcare reform
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“There is no use trying,” said Alice;
“one can’t believe impossible things.”
“I dare say you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen.
“When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day.
Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.”
There are a number...
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Well somebody took the brave task of getting the Quack to talk “Algorithms”. Actually I hope I have something intelligent to talk about:) If you read the blog here then you know I try to take perhaps some confusing or complicated issues and make them simple and connect dots as far as the...
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03-10-2010
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Filed under: Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Blog Talk Radio, Twitter, Algorithms, healthcare reform, MedicalQuack, payors, Greg Masters, @2healthguru
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Ok I don’t think I am ready for this one, as the power of suggestion could be too strong for me here:) I certainly would not want to self diagnose when it comes to mental illness and I think over all that this is a human to human area, but if you want to take a test, here it is. I get a little...
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If you check in here often enough you have probably seen information about Cook Medical and last year I had the opportunity to talk with a representative of Cook to find out more about how it works. We discussed hernia repair for the most part and covered a few other areas. Regenerative Medicine...
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03-10-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Cook Medical, Wound care, minimally invasive surgery, Cook Biotech, Regenerational Medicine, BioDesign, hernia repair, Cook Bio
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This is good, I have said the Executive Branch is moving right along with technology, can’t say the same for the House and Senate. The House expects their wireless project to take 3 years as an example. It looks like they get speech recognition too. A couple years ago I was given a nice tour...
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03-09-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, PHR, AHLTA, Personal Health Records, integration, Speech Recognition, White House, military
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This appears to be some significant help for those who can grow a beard, but yet are bald on top. From what is shown here it looks pretty good. The article also states the doctor can also use other body hair, like the chest and stomach. I didn’t see any mention of leg hair, yet. ...
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03-09-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Plastic Surgeon, Hair, minimally invasive procedures, Baldness, costmetic surgery, Dr. Umar, hair transplant, beard
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We are back to the same 3 companies again, Johnson and Johnson, Boston Scientific and Abbott, same questions over “patents” and more legal expenses to pass along to consumers in the price of a stent. If these 3 could settle their differences and make some donations for charity instead of all these...
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03-06-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, healthcare, Medical Devices, Pharma, Biotech, FDA, Stents, Recalls, Legal Suits, Investments, Boston Scientific, Microsoft Tags, Johnson and Johson
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This is how one country is doing it, with the Government jumping in for relief. Granted Australia is not quite as bad in the economic hurt area as the US is right now so they have some additional positives going in their direction. What is being emphasized here too is standards and better...
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03-05-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Health IT, Hospitals, elections, integration, Australia, Standards, healthcare reform, Prime Minister, taxes
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This is a smart move to create additional algorithmic formulas to analyze labs along with medications being taken. For a simple example I am estimating based on a particular lab result, certain drugs would not be advisable treatment and on the other side of the coin labs may be needed to combine...
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03-04-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, healthcare, microsoft, EHR, Health IT, PHR, Google Health, HL7, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, MedPlus, Lab Results, Informed Patient, Quest Diagnostics, Surescripts