Algorithms still the hottest trend in healthcare and the steering wheel that controls all. Here’s the press release below. Is this too little and too late? Risk management has been running healthcare for a very long time as the private insurers have been the up front runners with investing...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 12-04-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, privacy, health insurance, Prescriptions, Congress, Hospitals, Blue Cross, Blue Shield, Venture Capital, Reserve Funds, Profits
Lawmakers are going to have a difficult time with this one as they are not technically up to date enough as a whole to comprehend how all of this works in my estimation. with understanding the algorithms of finance and the economy, Wall Street showed us that. Sad, but it is true and this...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-28-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, My Commentaries, healthcare, privacy, health insurance, Prescriptions, Congress, Hospitals, Blue Cross, Blue Shield, Venture Capital, Reserve Funds, Profits
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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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
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
A qualified system is not faxing! Many offices who are set up with an EMR or EHR are already covered and are either set up and ready to go or have the capabilities. For those who are not, there’s a permanent link on this page to NEPSI, the free e-prescribing initiative where you can sign...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-31-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, healthcare, medicare, health insurance, Physicians, Prescriptions, e-prescribing
As the article states, you don’t need marketing for cancer drugs, as the need is unfortunately already there, thus marketing for cancer drugs does not necessarily carry the same sales expense as do other drugs. We have all seen the “tiered plans” on what level drugs are listed with insurance coverage...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-13-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, personalized medicine, Genomics, health insurance, Pharma, Prescriptions, Cancer, R and D, Science 2.0
Stories like this are sad indeed. It comes back to the dollar and someone playing "God" to determine who gets treatment and who does not. Granted personalized medicine tests will help in time, not only from the actual treatment side, but from the information side of things as well...
This brings up one big issue, something I have been aware of for a while, collecting data for one purpose and being used for another, think this doesn't happen, think again. When you sign up for health insurance, you sign you life away for all this data to be collected and reviewed for the...