Well here it is now from the government. A couple years ago I started posting about behavioral health and mostly relative to insurance companies. They use data to project risk and keep cost down with their algorithms. Guess what, they want the data like everyone else to predict and...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on Mon, Feb 28 2011
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, privacy, Heatlhcare, NIH, Intelligence, wireless, Algorithms, participatory Sensing, business, mobile heatlh, mHeatlh, devices that record data, predictive behavior
I thought this was a well thought out presentation and difficult to give no less too.I feel she does make some very good points as what and who we designate as experts and wealth is not always the dividing line here, like we sometimes think it may be. Decision making is getting harder as we all...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on Wed, Feb 23 2011
Filed under: Medically Related, My Commentaries, Heatlhcare, Intelligence, Algorithms, TED, decisions, perceptions, dangerous, Noreena Hertz, doctors nurses, paradigns
Ok reading the title above one might wonder what’s up with this? This is an article here that offers some tips when applying for health insurance and this is directed for those who can afford it . Firs of all to avoid telling any fibs on an application for health insurance, apply to a group...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on Mon, Feb 21 2011
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, health insurance, Congress, Heatlhcare, Risk Management, Algorithms, Laws, applications, private insurance, RSA
This is a big buy back and after all is said and done, Glaxo will no longer have any interest in Quest Diagnostics. Now today Quest is also making stock available to the public with 15.4 million shares at a little over $55.00 a share. Glaxo has not had the best pubic image of late with the...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on Wed, Feb 2 2011
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Heart Disease, FDA, Heatlhcare, Legal Suits, Fines, GlaxoSmithKline, Algorithms, Quest Diagnostics, fees, Goldman Sachs, stock, Avandia, CFO, Algo man