As the old saying goes, things roll downhill and Siemens was the straw that broke the camel's back here. Recently Siemens has been in the news with their own issues with restructuring and lay offs. There are other creditors including Clinical Laboratories of Hawaii, Ewa Beach, $3.9 million;...
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on 08-30-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Physicians, FDA, Hospitals, Nursing, bankruptcy, Economics, Desperate Hosptials, Venture Capitalists, Transparancy, Layoffs, Debt consolidation, Overseas Investments, Vendors
Good news to help some of the financially strapped hospitals here in California, but how much will each one actually see, as 11.8 million among 480 hospitals is not a huge chunk of change. In the meantime though, the current woes for WellPoint continue over stiffer penalties. One report from last...
A couple weeks ago I had a couple posts referencing the partner ship with Anthem Blue Cross with utilizing their data bases for such a project as well...The new FDA white paper, titled "The Sentinel Initiative -- A National Strategy for Monitoring Medical Product Safety," ... totally amazing...
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on 05-22-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, My Commentaries, Genomics, healthcare, Health IT, Security, FDA, clinical trials, Medicare Part D, HL7, data bases