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If you want to look up community rankings on selected healthcare areas this may be the place for you. I can see this being useful for students for one in having to write reports for school and other businesses looking for community health data that could be relative to their own business efforts...
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It’s probably doing the blog that created that title above because yes it is repetitions and not a bad thing but it’s just one more program and collaboration in the wall. There’s not that much difference in the goal but everyone has their own content direction, etc. The website won’t be the...
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Back in December of 2010 the initial press release came out and there have been a few other press posts since that time and now we have a video, dialing for algorithms almost. Heritage Provider Network In California Announces $3 Million Prize-Behavioral Analytics For Predictive Algorithmic Formulas On...
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This is pretty hot stuff and is updated as to when the folks on the list get captured. There’s even a place on the site where you can report information about any of those listed on the “Most Wanted List” for healthcare fraud. To report one can either fill in the form on the website or call...
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Sat, Feb 5 2011
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This is very cool if you have trademarks or are wanting to file one for sure. I can’t help but think in the pharma end of healthcare that Trademarkia will perhaps be used quite a bit. All the trademarks issued in the US since 1870 claim to be listed. I just went to the general page...
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Fri, Feb 4 2011
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The article goes on to say that the information should be used as a red flag type of warning and not as final proof of any type of fraud, but in today’s world, who knows what could fly. As you can see mentioned below, one firm actually published a study, “"Leveraging Social Networks: An In...
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Mon, Jan 24 2011
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In May of 2010 US Preventive Medicine, a Dallas based company raised $25 million in equity financing, just some to be aware of and now they are in partnership with Sam’s Club to make you get healthier. You know all of this targeted healthcare information is good and maybe it’s because I do this...
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Thu, Jan 13 2011
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This is part of the FDA’s efforts for transparency and to improve communications. The site included “basic” information to help companies communicate with the agency. The commitment is to release an answer in 5 days for inquires. FDA Basics for Industry The recall area still sucks and...
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Here we are again faced with keeping costs down and one more stipulation by health insurers to limit access based on numbers which are generated to show evidence based medicine. We have one problem here though as that new products and procedures are approved by the FDA all the time, and many are...
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Sat, Dec 25 2010
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Now this makes one ask, how important are memories? Do you need a camera in the back of your head to do this? This is an experiment and the first one like it to see how it could work. He has a sponsor for this experiment. He literally does have eyes in the back of his head. He...
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This is interesting as those who wish to participate will be given anonymized records of 100,000 patients who are current members of Heritage. With using analytic algorithms the goal is to predict a percentage of members who have been to the hospital and a percentage of those who will return. It...
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Mon, Dec 6 2010
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I think if I see one more mobile application that sends a text message I’m about ready to choke. We have graduated way beyond that and besides at this point we all know a phone can do it, but how many actually use this? I’m am guessing not many and I put the reminders I need in Outlook so...
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Thu, Dec 2 2010
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This is always a great topic as you just don’t know what data mining algorithms could be mining your data. Yup, there’s that word again and it’s an algorithm that is written in code that does this. Do you not think that algorithms are in control today or rather should I say some of those that create...
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Tue, Nov 23 2010
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This is in the UK, but what I thought was interesting too is the fact that for years we have discouraged people from self diagnosing but it appears time are changing again. Patients can also write comments about hospitals and doctors, and come to think of it, that’s not a bad solution compared to what...
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Mon, Nov 8 2010
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I wrote this post up a couple months ago and today noticed that the doctor is still searchable on several websites. The first site here still shows the doctor along with a link that states some current news to a comment section of the website and supplied this video from You Tube. You can...
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