This might have a bit to say about the IT departments, or the antiquated equipment in place, but with all the large profits being made by health insurers I would guess the have invested heavily as they have with all their reporting services and claim algorithms for calculating claims and approvals for...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-20-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, Computers, health insurance, Health IT, Cigna, Lawsuits, United HealthCare
From the IT side of things, I can’t agree more with all the additional administrative functions that appear in today’s medical practice, as a few years ago when I was writing code and creating a medical records program, much of what I was doing was looking for ways to automate some of this, to free the...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-30-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, My Commentaries, Physician, healthcare, EHR, Health IT, PHR, Personal Health Records, software, Internet, insurers, administration, Red tape, information overlaod, IT partner
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...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
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