Coventry Healthcare found the error and has fixed the algorithm , which is called a “computer glitch” here, but it’s just another algorithm. I am trying my best to educate readers here on the power of those algorithms and how the automated processes control not only the information we receive...
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on Tue, Jan 25 2011
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This is a great article and in the New York Times today and it has been broken down to show the overall mathematics that are used to determine payments. We are again, back to the “A” word that you see plastered in the center of this blog, an algorithm. I just finished watching a PBS documentary...
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on Fri, Nov 26 2010
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, Medicine, medicare, medical billing, Congress, Hospitals, CMS, Doctors, Patients, Pricing, Algorithms, formulas, value, payments, MedPac
If you have not been to the site, it s worth looking at and there’s one item in common that patients will have that is the same with doctors using medical records – too many clicks to drill down to the information, but over all it’s better than what was out there before with running analytics and giving...
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on Sun, Oct 24 2010
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The website designer was found via Twitter, so any of you that don’t take value in what Twitter can do to connect, think again. Most of the people on the project had been on the committee for quite a while. Tech Crunch digs in and gets a little more information on how the creation of the...
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on Fri, Aug 6 2010
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, health insurance, Twitter, HHS, Patients, Pricing, Certification, Algorithms, websites, consumers, Silicon Valley, Healthcare.gov, web site