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
Every blogger, myself included has written about the upcoming shortage of physicians, well this is predicated on better healthcare, but as we are seeing from the downturn in the economy, people are not going to the doctor to take care of their health, it is still a “risk management world” out there,...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-30-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Physicians, Primary Care, Patients, Risk Management, information overlaod
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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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
Below we have 2 different physicians, one who embraces technology so much to the fact that she has become an technology evangelist to help and convince other physicians to “buy in”, and she works as an emergency ER physician too. The second physician vowed to keep the paper trail going, that is...
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on 10-05-2008
Filed under: Tablet PCs, Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Windows Mobile, My Commentaries, healthcare, Medical Records, CIO, CEO, Health IT, Tablet PC, Physicians, PDA, Dragon Naturally Speaking, Dictation, Speech Recognition, CTO, COO, Meetings, Windows Journal
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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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
Medical Quack on Reuters. Now this is a sad state of affairs to be the prudent consumer, and yet you are potentially taking money out of your doctor's pocket by doing so when it comes to pay for performance for them, so what's up with this when purchasing $4.00 Generic Drugs. BD...
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on 09-18-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, My Commentaries, health insurance, Physicians, Pharma, HMO, Generic Drugs, Pay for Performance, Patients