This is a great watch and lot of information from Cathy O’Neil, author of “Weapons of Math Destruction” and computer scientist Jaron Lanier. Nobody is minding the shop as you can’t ask a machine for an appeal or know how the machine computed “One Trick Algo…
Continue ReadingThis is a pretty good article from Wired Magazine and it’s the truth and pretty much a lot of what I say here, so good to see others join in and make the case to try to start up a wake up call for consumers. What you don’t see does hurt your or hurts your ac…
Continue ReadingEven the Koch Brothers are dabbling in the medical business, but this one, is an Irish company and as the article mentions, it will be dovetailed under their current subsidiary company Molex Electric, who makes cable supplies. Among other things the company…
Continue ReadingThis is exciting stuff as scientists have now been able to create DNA strands that can mimic diseases and the clinical trials involved injecting them into patients and that process eliminates the disease threat. A company by the name of Inovio has begun cli…
Continue ReadingA while back Walgreens filed case against Walgreens and Rite Aid on the patent violation and it’s been settled. In reading this article all seemed to have known about the patent but didn’t care if I’m reading this correctly. Walgreens Suing CVS, Rite Aid, …
Continue ReadingPenalties will apply for those who do not submit their qualifying data and this also covered the clinical quality measure submissions. Again this gives a little breathing room for now but there’s other issues that need work and follow up as the entire proces…
Continue ReadingHere we go again the tax return scheme. Last time it was in Florida with a hospital that had been hit 3 times in 2 years, all inside jobs. One More Reason to License Data Sellers–Income Tax Fraud On the Rise-Who Are You Buying Your Data From And Who’s Buy…
Continue ReadingHere we go again and at some point in time this over globalization is going to bite back and we have already seen some of this in healthcare. There are some things that are better left in the US and I might think this could be one of them. Total people gett…
Continue ReadingThis is the first time in the world this has been with a heart that had stopped beating. Normally hearts are removed from “brain dead” individuals but not in this case as a “box” has been created to contain and revive the heart to start beating again. This …
Continue ReadingJonathon Mayer, a computer scientist and lawyer at Stanford was kind enough to dig in and write up his explanation and he’s a smarter than me as a computer scientists and lawyer at Stanford. I just included the image on his full report and and a couple lines…
Continue ReadingCovidien if you will remember is the company Medtronic bought and is doing the tax inversion and is in the process of laying off 160 workers and the deal is due to close in November. Covidien was formerly known as Tyco years back. The layoffs are to take …
Continue ReadingThere’s only so much one human can do and with electronic medical records systems and billing codes becoming more complex every year, something has to give and the answer is scribes to do the data entry and billing. At first they became a regular sight in em…
Continue ReadingEver since fecal transplant came out, they are always good for conversation and originally it was kind of a nutty idea but its works for C Diff. Who would have ever thought there would be such success:) A while back I wrote about the poop pill and now it lo…
Continue ReadingHere we go again, snooping noses cost two employees their jobs with looking at medical records of physician who was being treated for Ebola in Omaha. Why do people do this still? I know hospitals tell them there’s audit tables so they know they will get cau…
Continue ReadingToday, here’s a guest post from the founder and CEO of Zoeticx Clarity Cloud solution for interoperability. My comments here are above the line below and this is reproduced with his assessments on the future and is in response to the former director of ONC, …
Continue ReadingFor as long as I can think back and remember PatientKeeper has been around. Their platform has been in use in HCA hospitals so I guess why not own it. The platform integrates with many types of software and provides workflow support for the physicians and w…
Continue ReadingPolycom is about as top level as you can get with quality video and has been around for a long time. The company has partnered with Microsoft and may others over the years and now Emerge.MD is using the platform for telehealth. It can be used to engage the…
Continue ReadingLet’s hope this get some action as the momentum after a successful Meaningful Use Stage One is beginning to fall off. Some have told me they have just about given up. Technology is to blame for some of this and frankly the ONC is overwhelmed with complexiti…
Continue ReadingVanRoekel worked for the agency before being appointed as US CIO. We’re losing a good engineer with talent but he’s going to a great job as well where he can make a difference . His work at the government was not really in the focus all the time but that do…
Continue ReadingThere’s a new toolkit in which the intended audience is to assist with both information and marketing tools various groups in healthcare, from hospitals, drug stores and more. For those entities wanting promotional material and information this makes a good …
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