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
This very extensive article examines various hospitals in Massachusetts and the cost of the same procedures at different hospitals, and then continues further to discuss how this happens; contracts with the insurers and the ability to use “branding” to command a higher rate, all the big centers do it...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-16-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, Physicians, Hospitals, bankruptcy, Balance Billing, Transparancy, Debt consolidation, Vendors, Hosptials
Where does the greed lie perhaps might be the question. Today it takes a lot of money to create a new drug and as we have seen from the new approach from the FDA, more information and documentation is required. Investors want a return on some of the biotech research that has not quite matured yet...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-26-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, healthcare, health insurance, Physicians, HMO, Hospitals, Fraud, NIH, Whistle Blower, Beware of Geeks Bearing Formulas, Greed
The conference is being held later this year, and April certainly can bear a little bit better weather for Chicago than February. “ Keep your schedule on track for HIMSS09 in Chicago from April 4-8, 2009. The 2009 Annual HIMSS Conference & Exhibition comes just 5 weeks later than last year's...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-22-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Health IT, Physicians, PHR, Hospitals, Personal Health Records, Medical Errors, HIMMS, Informed Patient, Quaid Foundation, Patient Rights, Dennis Quaid
As I have posted in the past, hospitals today come in various shapes and forms, so doing better financially than others and those who still have the ability are moving forward to work with physicians to extend the electronic medical record to the ambulatory setting (the doctor’s office) to where the...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 09-19-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, Medical Records, EHR, Physicians, PHR, Hospitals, Personal Health Records, Heatlhcare, Stark
Anyone in the hospital business knows exactly who the Joint Commission is. It is somewhat of a peers guided group that hospitals pay for to ensure they are up to standard, or in other words accredited. If you read below, one government worker was not impressed with her findings as...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 09-07-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, Congress, Hospitals, inspections, Hospital Safety, Joint Commission, Accredited, Hospital Grades, Investigation
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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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
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