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Healthcare Reform Pushes Medical Device Outsourcing to Bigger Markets Overseas With Cardiology... by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy This is sad and the US is country that is not able to identify and I guess see how intangibles contribute and add to and in some areas destroy manufacturing incentives to ... Read on »

Intelligent M–Hospital–One More Hand Washing Technology To Track Hospital Workers in... by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy I remember when I posted the first article about Hygreen when it was brand new and then there was Proventix that came along and now we have a 3rd one. They all use RFID s ... Read on »

Ben Goldacre, One Doctor/Scientist That Knows Models–Discussion on Trial and Academia... by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy We all want honest and accurate data. Dr. Goldacre is certainly one who has done his work with modeling and you don’t have trials documented without some kind of a model. ... Read on »

Judge Orders Morning After Pill to be Available for All Ages, Thus Nullifying HHS 2011... by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy I think we all remember this when the big public scuttle came out with Sebelius overruling FDA director Margaret Hamburg on the morning after pill. That political move ma ... Read on »

Aetna Advising Insurance Brokers Via Letter to Advise Customers They Can Keep Their Old Plan and... by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy At the link below you can read the letter posted at the Huffington Post which was sent to brokers to encourage companies to keep their old plan. This will be interesting ... Read on »

Big Data Revolution-Dangers of Using It To Drive Ourselves Off a Cliff -Debunking Myths of... by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy This is a very reasonable discussion about big data and at the end of the video the discussion goes into how people do drive themselves off the cliff all the time with dat ... Read on »

CMS and Inspector General Duking It Out Over Government Website Data That Helps Consumers Find... by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy It’s always easier to be the Monday morning quarterback and see what is missing rather than to do the complex project of putting the site together. The insurers did not “ ... Read on »

Cancer Clinics Turning Away Medicare Patients Due to Reimbursement Cuts-While Banks and... by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy It’s not just their data, it’s all of us and when we look at the epidemic to what is going on with data addiction and how it cuts into other areas, this is sad. I would l ... Read on »

Pacific Health Closing 4 Hospitals in Southern California Due to Legal Costs and Fines of Around... by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Anaheim General has been one of their hospitals which has been in the news quite a bit it it was the first closed and now the non profit will be closing 3 other remaining ... Read on »

California Hires Consumer Watchdog To Assist in Reviewing Healthcare Insurance... by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy This is a good move as the Consumer Watchdog kicks butt to put it mildly and has some great talent on board. In addition many celebrities donate to their cause such as Ba ... Read on »

Hot Flash Havoc–Rent and Stream From the Medical Quack–Menopause Exposed by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy A couple years ago I interviewed Heidi Houston, the Executive Producer of the video and and screened the film. Now here’s a chance if you missed it to watch. In addition ... Read on »

Prime Healthcare Buys Two Hospitals In Kansas From the Sisters of Charity Of Leavenworth Health... by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy This healthcare system may ring a bell as remember the situation at St. Johns Hospital in Santa Monica from last year? They still own that hospital and rumbles are still ... Read on »

Small Business Insurance Options for Health Insurance Provisions Delayed–It’s the IT... by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy We have all been watching how this is evolving and it is one massive project for sure with setting up both business and individual exchanges. There’s been others besides ... Read on »

HHS Dumps 2.2% Cuts to Private Medicare Advantage Plans; However Due to Sequester Doctor... by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Of course this is good news on the private Medicare plans as it would only stand to hurt the subscribers as we all know how insurers operate, right out of the pocket of pa ... Read on »

Hope for Pakistani Doctor Who Helped the US Locate and Kill Bin Laden–White House Petition by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy MMRGlobal during the time of the Oscars lead an effort to try and get some relief for the doctor who is now imprisoned in Pakistan that lead the US to the eradication of B ... Read on »

NHS As It Has Been Known For Years Changes Dramatically April 1st and Care for the Poor Will... by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy This is really kind of sad to see the same toll we face over here with problems with money and banks hitting the NHS too. One industry destroying another one pretty much ... Read on »

mHealth and Other Technologies in Healthcare Experience Slow Growth Is As the Data Selling... by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy So, do you wonder why we can’t create more new jobs? Well when one can hire a few technologists and mine data and create analytics by the barrel (which half will end up b ... Read on »

“Dead Patients Can’t Be Readmitted” As Relates to HHS and CMS and the Elusive... by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy I am all for education and all the efforts hospitals are making in this area, it helps but the penalties by the numbers here with folks in executive positions that think t ... Read on »

Johnson and Johnson Recalls Millions of OneTouch Verio Blood Glucose Meters by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy This is an international recall and it being conducted as the machines can malfunction with an extremely high reading. LifeScan is the company that makes the product. Th ... Read on »

FDA Approves J and J New Class of Drug for Diabetes 2, Expelling Sugar Via Urination by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Some MDs are cautious with the results and use so far as the drug is basically using a “side effect” as a treatment. I wrote this up a few months ago on how it differs fr ... Read on »

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