With prediction tools and apps being all the rage today, their reliability and accuracy are not always there. Before the word “prediction” took over, we used to have words like “trending” and number crunches used for a lot of what we saw, but today it’s the …
Continue ReadingIrvine will be the home of a Providence St. Joseph system office once everything gets integrated. The overall corporate office will remain in Washington. This process began back in November of 2015 so the approval has now just been given for the merger to g…
Continue ReadingFortune put it right out in their article on why IBM was purchasing Truven Analytics, for the data. When companies acquire more data we all pretty much may know what goes next, more “big data” scoring and selling with consumer data. I’ve been writing about …
Continue ReadingJust when you think it can’t get any worse it does. If you read here often enough then you know I am a privacy advocate and have had an informal campaign going for a few years on indexing and licensing data sellers, that take your data, without your permissi…
Continue ReadingThis should be ruled trickery as that’s what it really is. When you read the snip from the press release on Neurotrack, this is a “risk assessment” tool and not a diagnosis tool as they would like you to think. This is software and there’ no genomic technol…
Continue ReadingI’ve complained about this here and there but this takes the hat. When you dump out $12 million and on top of that get $7 Million from the NIH for software that is so Orwellian in nature, it’s time to speak up. This is software you would not even wish on yo…
Continue ReadingWhat a difference a President makes. Last president of the AMA seemed much more interested in doctors and their work and now we have a shift back to data selling and analytics again. AMA makes money licensing CPT codes that are used throughout the healthcar…
Continue ReadingI have been asked this question many times and with the war on both cost of drugs and the war on cash, I thought this might be helpful to put some links in as a reference. Granted all the drugs you need won’t be on the lists perhaps, but there’s enough of th…
Continue ReadingYou know they are going to use these flawed medication adherence scores to determine who gets what with medications. This is horrifically flawed. Regulation won’t work and CMS should work towards getting lower drug prices instead of this model that comes ba…
Continue ReadingThis almost needs no introduction and I’m sure almost all the doctors today can relate to this one. ZDogg MD has another hit it seems. This is a real doctor who does all these videos so he’s on the front line. “EHR's suck. Let's make 'em bet…
Continue ReadingYou may or may not be aware of what’s going on with Big Data here but in China this is the deal, a Citizen Score that will determine everyone’s worth by using all sources of data available. So this is happening only in China? Wrong..we have Excess Scoring fo…
Continue ReadingHere we go again and another great documentary from the folks at VPRO. Scroll down to the bottom of this page to watch the Quants of Wall Street as well. If you are in healthcare, you should have an interest here as insurance companies have hired armies of…
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