These are a couple posts from last month. What is interesting is the difference of the dollar amounts here, $65 million more for a procedure for cats and dogs. Any money and donations of course are appreciated, but could the good doctor being relaying a message here? His announcement...
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on 11-21-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Grants, R and D, sterilization, X-Pr5ize, healthcare for pets
Personalized Medicine will create many answers and solutions in healthcare, but will we have the money to afford it? I post quite a bit about genomics and personalized medicine on the blog here and the one thing it has in common with the rest of healthcare is cost. The success of personalized...
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on 11-14-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, personalized medicine, healthcare, Medical Records, FDA, integration, CMS, Leavitt
You have probably read about this in the news already, but now it looks like they are going after the companies who enroll consumers with health plans too, sending the same type of letter. For updates from Express Scripts, you can check the main support page for any updates. They have contracted...
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on 11-12-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, privacy, Prescriptions, Data Breach, Investigation, FBI, Extortion, Express Scripts, Kroll
This is a good post from the Happy Hospitalists and touches on some of the same areas discussed here with reference to never-never events as well as areas of responsibility and the finances. There are some real gray areas with the never-never events and the comments made herein substantiate this...
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on 11-10-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, Hospital, healthcare, medicare, Physicians, Medical Errors, Hospitalists, Never-Never, deperate hospitals
Thanks to the Wall Street Journal for putting the numbers together for us. There are 2 physicians in the Senate and this seems like a very good time to include a video from a post earlier this year with Robert Scoble interviewing Senator Dr. Tom Coburn, who by the way has a few fans if you check...
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on 11-06-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Congress, Scoble, Tom Coburn, Bloggers, Election 2008, Physicians in Congress
One more program to confuse us when needing a prescription, although I’m sure there is money to be saved here, but shoot I like the $4.00 or $10.00 generic prescriptions offered by others, no enrollment and no questions asked, simple. For the monthly fee, you might need to be a patient with some...
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on 11-06-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, drugs, healthcare, health insurance, Prescriptions, Medicare Part D, Aetna, Pharmacy, Costco
Here are a few additional posts that have been posted by Fox and Reuters this week. There are several more published over the last few weeks, but here’s a few of the highlights for this week. The AARP story was the same post as featured on the Wall Street Journal. Senator opens investigation...
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on 11-06-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, PHR, Google Health, AARP, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, eprescribing, Medical Quack, NEPSI, Reuters, Fox News, DNA technology