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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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
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
Well hold off those fire sales for the computers and servers, as the FBI will more than likely want some forensic investigations done. All of the creative financing and banking was accomplished with software. Years ago the stock market did not have the sophisticated tools we have today,...
With all the emphasis on the economy, you can follow both the House, the Senate and Whitehouse on Twitter. The House in particular will give you a ton of updates on what is happening on the floor. The Senate doesn’t update very often. I have not tried it, but it looks like you can also send...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 09-22-2008
Filed under: Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, Congress, Twitter, Senate, Economics, White House, House of Representatives
In view of the recent events, I ran across the opinion article, written by a Venture Capitalist and just a small portion of some the content is below. I looked to see what they currently had under management, in other words, investments and about 90% involves technology, interesting. As everyone...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 09-20-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Congress, Business Intelligence, software, Bill Gates, Software as a Service, Venture Capitalists, Wall Street, Intellectual property, Intelligence, Junk Bonds, Campaign 2008
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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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
Nice interview with Senator Tom Coburn, one of two doctors in Congress, but he is the only medical doctor that continues to practice. Imagine going to see you doctor the Congressman! Robert Scoble in his Washington series discussed blogging, Healthcare and how Congress operates, good topics...
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on 07-23-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Blogging, Congress, Politics, Senate, Tom Coburn, Senator
This is very perplexing based on the votes the bill had from both the House and Senate and appears now to be a game of cat and mouse or more like “Custer’s Last Stand” in a sense. It is not like he’s risking his political future at this point and after all the work and effort this just seems to...