Healthcare and the way it is practices has certainly changed over the last few years, no doubt about it. Technology though is not the reason to blame in it’s entirety though, it’s the other stuff that goes along with others initializing technology and software benefits that hits below the belt...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-18-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, healthcare, Medical Records, medicare, Congress, Medicaid, software, Patient Advocacy, Health Insuance, Point of Care, Physician Overload
This may be a result of the questions posed last week by Senator Grassley. It is getting even more complicated as insurance companies work on new algorithms to create new insurance plans and add them to the large pool of plans offered and it does not appear to be getting any easier to be able...
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on 11-09-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, healthcare, medicare, AARP, Congress, Medicaid, software, Patient Advocacy, Health Insuance, United HealthCare
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
This particular statement really bothers me, is CMS now going to take on the role of “doctor here? “ The Bush administration argued that Medicare officials had the right to decide whether the expense incurred for a given item, not just the item itself, was “reasonable and necessary.” How...
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on 11-04-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, healthcare, Pharma, Congress, CMS, Medicare contractor, Drug costs, Federal Court
Words of wisdom and right to the heart of the matter. Below I have included a clip from the Wall Street Journal about President Bush signing a bill on protecting intelligent property, and what I found interesting is the mentioning of the fact that the coordinator for this was originally to be housed...
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on 10-14-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, microsoft, Health IT, Congress, software, Wall Street, White House, Algorithms, Geeks, Laws, formulas, Warren Buffett, Department of Justice, Intelligent Property, Sofware
This does not make sense, why don’t we find other ways to spend the funds, like perhaps some additional limbs for soldiers that come home from war, bionic arms and hands which DARPA has funded and helped create? What’s up with this? DARPA is also involved in biotech research as well. ...
Even though he was not able to attend personally, modern technology of video conferencing made it possible for the Senator to continue his efforts and participation. As fuel prices continue to rise, along with just general state of the economy, video conferencing is finally coming of age. ...
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on 09-22-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Microsoft/Windows News, My Commentaries, healthcare, microsoft, Cancer, Congress, Senate, Senator Kennedy, Skype, Video Conferencing