Aug
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Aug
30
Health Fraud Scores Could Be a Contributing Factor to Medical Claims Being Denied
Filed Under (The Medical) by Admin on 30-08-2009
To help fight fraud, your healthcare claim could be getting a big score. In other words we are once again depending on those algorithms to determine what could
be determined as fraud. If your claim gets a big score, then perhaps the red tape and battle is on. This is somewhat the same technology that is used by the banking industry; however, in healthcare items are not as cut and dry, thus we will have even more calculated and derived algorithms to better mine the functionality of this process.
Aug
30
Shea Moisture For Your Skin
Filed Under (My Health) by Admin on 30-08-2009
Aug
30
E-Health Hazards: Provider Liability and Electronic Health Record Systems
Filed Under (Health Care) by Admin on 30-08-2009
Sharona Hoffman, Professor of Law and Bioethics and Co-Director of the Law-Medicine Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, and Andy Podgurski, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Case Western, had written an important article on HIT that I highlighted in my March 2009 post “Let’s Deregulate Pharmaceutical Information Technology.”
Aug
29
NURSING AIDE AT BRISTOL, VA NURSING HOME INDICTED
Filed Under (Legal Medical) by Admin on 29-08-2009
This is disturbing news.
A grand jury has indicted James W. Wright (a nursing aide) on four counts of aggravated sexual battery following an investigation by the Office of the Attorney General of Virginia. The alleged abuse took place at the National HealthCare (NHC) nursing home in Bristol, Virginia. The Murfreesboro, Tennessee based NHC Corp., runs the Bristol nursing home as well as 75 others in Tennessee and other eastern states.
Aug
28
Don’t Drink Alcohol? You Have the Higher Risk of Depression – Study and Survey
Filed Under (The Medical) by Admin on 28-08-2009
This is the best research I have seen in a long time! It is even in the journal Addiction. Of course excessive drinking as we all know does not help your health, but if you stay within guidelines you are less apt to be depressed, so bring on the martinis, only one or two please.
Aug
28
NURSING HOME SEXUAL ASSAULTS IN SW VIRGINIA
Filed Under (Legal Medical) by Admin on 28-08-2009
WATCH THIS
By Michael Owens
Reporter / Bristol Herald Courier
Published: August 28, 2009
Aug
28
On Optimal Expertise for Leadership in Biomedicine
Filed Under (Health Care) by Admin on 28-08-2009
There has recently been debate on these pages regarding optimal expertise for biomedical leadership, precipitated by Roy Poses’ posts “Health Care Leaders: Don’t Know Much About Health Care” and “NY Times Proclaims Anyone Can Run a Health Care Organization with a Little Studying Up“.
Aug
28
New CPT Codes - Billing Codes for Robot and Home Monitoring Services - Telemedicine
Filed Under (The Medical) by Admin on 28-08-2009
Thats right, CPT Codes for Robots in the patient home, so all we need now are patients who have the robots (grin). This is a further expansion of 
telehealth. These are for use in billing Medicare and Medicaid. We have seen the robots used in hospitals that allow physicians to telecommute and this is the next step, in to the patient home. The military even developed an all terrain robot for healthcare. Unlike the ones in use at the hospitals, these do not appear to need a joy stick as they are smarter and made to be a companion in the home as well.
Aug
26
MONEY-DRIVEN MEDICINE – The Movie (Official Trailer)
Filed Under (The Medical) by Admin on 26-08-2009
The official website of the documentary movie can be found here. I have not seen the movie myself yet but look forward to watching, as from what shows on the internet, it appears to pick up and intelligently expand beyond the initial issues that Sicko brought to our attention. 