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Tenet Healthcare Loses $88 Million First Quarter 2013–Admissions Drop, Algorithmic Models Of... by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Revenues were up but profits were down. More people have high deductible insurance plans and thus this model is continuing to break as payers are transferring risk to pat ... Read on »

How to Help a Family or Loved One In Need CauseWish CrowdFunding (Guest Post) by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy This is a guest post from the owner of CauseWish, a crowd funding website and if you look on my right hand side you can see mine cause I have set up with another site. Mi ... Read on »

Former Goldman Programmer Still on the Hook for Code Theft, Perhaps Is It Time to Talk About the... by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy There’s been a lot of talk and especially here at this blog about the “models” that are used for software. The Quants are at the top of the ladder here with having the ta ... Read on »

MMRGlobal and Chinese EMR to Integrate MyMedicalRecords PHR Using HL7 Technologies by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy It sounds very similar to what is occurring here in the US and as the press release below notes the original contract was just to sell the MyMedicalRecords PHR in China an ... Read on »

FDA Approves Plan B One Step Contraceptive Without a Prescription for Women 15 Years or Older... by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy You may or may not remember how this one went down but HHS Secretary Sebelius decided to step in here and over rule the FDA but then a judge over ruled her. It was politi ... Read on »

Jawbone Buys BodyMedia. Launches New “Up App” Platform–Partnerships Allow for... by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy All of these tracking devices are nice and offer a lot of information. I look at the practical side here from a couple views. I see people buying them and using for a wh ... Read on »

Kcentra Approved by the FDA to Reverse the Effects of Warfarin by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy It is pretty common knowledge that Warfarin can be difficult to regulate and if the blood gets too thin, we now have an antidote. There are two newer drugs where you can ... Read on »

Bayer Buys Conceptus Contraception Device Company for Around a Billion by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy You may or may not have heard of the product but it is a device that functions like having one’s tubes tied to prevent an egg from traveling via the fallopian tubes except ... Read on »

3D Modeling Glasses Software Company, Patent Battle Going Up Against Big Corporation Health... by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Here’s one that got by me and I don’t catch them all but try to advice when I find perhaps less notable subsidiaries of health insurance companies that are perhaps a few l ... Read on »

Study on How “Jail Breaker” Cancer Cells Escape Tumors and Spread Through the Body by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy This study had over 100 investigators from 20 institutions working on it so it’s large enough number to substantiate some new findings when determining behavior patterns b ... Read on »

TechShop–High End Machinery Working With Software Technologies to Create Tangible Products by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy This is great and they are making “tangible” products using technology and creating new ones. The owner used to be in software development and wanted to “hold things in h ... Read on »

Angel of Death–Serial Killer Nurse– Technology Audit Records Helped Break the... by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The story here is about the nurse that was using medications to kill patients in several hospitals. Somerset hospital was where he was finally caught. The nurse was sent ... Read on »

Data Floating Around the Web and You Don’t Know How It Got There? Time to License and... by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy If you saw the news in the New York time and read here often enough then you know what the deal is on data selling, privacy and profits. I have quite a few articles about ... Read on »

GeneWatch in the UK Warning of the Dangers and Profiteering With Linking DNA To Medical Records... by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy We know that marketing today is on steroids and myself the no call list is even becoming a farce and doesn’t work well anymore. The calls keep coming so again I return ba ... Read on »

Cook Recalls Zilver PTX Drug Eluting Stent Due to Potential Delivery System Separation Prompts by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy I covered the Cook Zilver Stent quite a bit here as it’s one that goes in the leg to help fight PAD. The recall is for systems that have not been used and patients who ha ... Read on »

Richard Cordray, Fail With Understanding Flawed Models and Algorithms -Big Case of“Algo... by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy He starting to remind me of Blue Cross and their data mining to find out if their insured were buying clothes a size larger . Anyway in reading this article he’s sucked i ... Read on »

UPS Acquires European Pharmaceutical Logistics Company CEMELOG Moving Closer to Pharmacy Benefit... by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy UPS is getting closer to being a Pharmacy Benefit Manager or Tactical Partner as when you look at how they are filling orders from medical devices and the IT Infrastructur ... Read on »

BankUnited CEO Whining, Says Universal Health Care Fooled Them- HMO Built Models That Lied Better,... by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Well this is what the CEO told investors and you know what, if I were a share holder or investor with the bank, I would be asking about this. How is it that you were out ... Read on »

Fun and Games With an MRI by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Hospital got a new MRI and did a few tricks with the old one and then made both the new and the old MRI sing…BD Smoke on the Water… MRI versus a chair… ... Read on »

The Retirement Game– 401k Complexities Just Like Health Insurance Have Consumers Screaming... by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The 401k Plan, is one of the products that consumers buy that Americans don’t know the price and they don’t know the quality. Once again we return to the world of complex ... Read on »

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