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Fri, Feb 22 2013
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When you stop and think about endorsements I feel this one is important, why? Dr. Halamka is not only a doctor but also a computer science expert, so there’s a lot of knowledge rolled into one person, not to mention the ability he has to talk and share his knowledge and ideas with all . Bill...
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The Medical Quack
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Thu, Mar 3 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, healthcare, Health IT, Hospitals, software, Hardware, Doctors, wireless, Data, User Interface, Apple, Harvard Medical, IPad, Beth Israel Medical, Dr. Halamka
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According to the article, Oak Hill Capital will invest $400 million and assume $495 million in debt. Ascension which was created in 1999 currently has 69 hospitals in 20 states. The agreement also allows for the hospitals t adhere to the teachings of the Catholic religion. The goal...
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Tue, Mar 1 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Hospitals, Non Profit, Money, funds, Catholic Healthcare, private equity, debt, Ascension Healt, Oak Hill Capital
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Earlier this year at the JP Morgan Healthcare convention the company made known their efforts to expand. Cerberus is the Private Equity firm that holds Steward Healthcare so we have one more move with private equity firms moving forward to buy up more hospitals. This time there’s no religion...
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The Medical Quack
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Tue, Feb 22 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Hospitals, Money, Investments, Caritas Christi Health, JPMorgan Healthcare Conference, acquisitions and mergers, Cerberus, private equity, Landmark Medical
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Single sign on is what every doctor wants who works at a hospital and adds medical chart information without having to go through several sign on procedures, one for PACS, one for records and so on. A VMware application is now available so those who are already committed and using their technologies...
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The Medical Quack
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Mon, Feb 21 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Medical Records, Health IT, Hospitals, NHS, Single Sign On, VMWare, Memorial Health Systems, HIMSS, Imprivata
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This has been in the news and building for the last few weeks and just a couple of weeks ago the reorganization was announced so the hospital firm could begin selling and marketing services to other hospitals and healthcare organizations. Just recently they took on a new debt to pay owners and...
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The Medical Quack
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Sun, Feb 20 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Hospitals, IPO, HCA, bonds, private equity, CFO, HCA Holdings, Health finance
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For those of you who might wonder why is the computer called “Watson”, here's little background that might lead to some interesting reading. Dr. Watson has been around a long time. Actually the first Dr. Watson appeared with IBM as a program used with dos and and other networking platforms...
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The Medical Quack
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Thu, Feb 17 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, healthcare, Hospitals, Nuance, Heatlh IT, Dictation, Speech Recognition, Intelligence, IBM, Watson, super computer
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Sometimes we may wonder how others outside the US look at our broken system and this about sums it up with some real life experience. I’m sure the singer is helping his body guard out if he needs it, but Bieber was apparently making the observation that if they had not been on the road in the US...
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The Medical Quack
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Wed, Feb 16 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, healthcare, health insurance, Hospitals, Politics, Canada, Music, healthcare reform, medical care, baby, premature babies, Justin Bieber, delivery
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Once approved by the board the company will become private and no longer traded on the New York Stock Exchange. The 2 subsidiaries include a couple major emergency service ambulance companies in the US. How big is private equity investing in healthcare? Here’s a post from March of 2010...
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The Medical Quack
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Tue, Feb 15 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Hospitals, Ambulance, Mergers and Acquisitions, Contracts, paramedics, emergency services, private equity, American Response, Dubilier & Rice, EmCare, Clayton
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If you have been in a hospital lately then you may be aware of all the noise that occurs when multiple alarms go off. If you have been a patient then you know what they are too and are we suffering from alarm overload? Each device seems to have it’s own tone and system and at times when multiple...
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Tue, Feb 15 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Hospitals, Doctors, nurses, noise, batteries, alarms, malfunctions
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This seems to be one more trending area with big hospital companies now entering into the business market to sell software and their consulting services, all relative to revenue cycling and the CFO now moves up into the CEO position. HCA operates 164 hospitals in the US and also own surgical centers...
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The Medical Quack
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Sat, Feb 12 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Hospitals, IPO, HCA, bonds, private equity, CFO, HCA Holdings, Health finance
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By next month all the emergency room physicians will have a scribe at their service with entering information into a lap top or a tablet computer. The article below states that across the country over 200 hospital emergency rooms are using scribes. There are 3 big companies who provide them...
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The Medical Quack
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Thu, Jan 27 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, EMR, healthcare, Health IT, Hospitals, Emergency Room, User Interface, Medical Software, Scribes, EHRs, nursingHR, St Lous
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The press release stated both have signed a letter of understanding to explore the benefits of merging and this is not a final decisions as algorithms will need to be run to make sure the 2 are compatible and that everything else jives along the way. BD About 6 months ago Harvard Pilgrim Health...
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The Medical Quack
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Wed, Jan 26 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, health insurance, Hospitals, Boston, premiums, Mergers and Acquisitions, Pilgrim Healthcare, Tufts Healthcare
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The software will be run on Dell electronic equipment and this will allow experts to test drive and write up their evaluations and opinions. This is not a certification service at all, just one that allows testing and role playing to allow for additional opinions to help in the selection of an...
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The Medical Quack
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Tue, Jan 18 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Labs, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, Hospitals, Heatlh IT, Doctors, Sofware, test drive, Dell computer, Health Data Tech Labs
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As you may have read here, this is a hospital chain in Boston, Caritas Christi that was purchased by an investment firm and basically is becoming the first “for profit” group of hospitals in the Boston area. Last week at the JP Morgan Healthcare convention they made the announcement that this was...
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The Medical Quack
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Tue, Jan 18 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Hospitals, Money, Investments, Caritas Christi Health, JPMorgan Healthcare Conference, acquisitions and mergers, Cerberus, private equity, Landmark Medical