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Halloween is more than two months away, but the ghost stories just keep on coming. The latest version was reported by the Associated Press (with a hat tip to Prof Margaret Soltan on the University Diaries blog). To quickly summarize,
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With her own case of kidney cancer, shes a survivor and with her employment at the time as a contractor, she did not have health insurance and her words, she fell through the cracks, shes a nurse practitioner and mother of 6. Her treatment was 35k and she had to mortgage the house for her 
cancer treatment, do we need reform, think so.
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This is some very innovative use with touchscreen monitors. The technician just has to touch the stone and the device does the rest and positions 
the stone, and you get both X-ray and Ultrasound images are displayed in real-time. Next, choose the pressure and frequency settings to attack and fragment the stone.
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I have written numerous times on this blog about the blind-man ignorance displayed by many healthcare IT and biomedical companies regarding Medical Informatics expertise.
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This appears to have gone one step further in the fact that a program was developed internally with a how to structure, and one individual spoke out in dismay with naming it after a cartoon ghost. Paxil now has generic competition as well as from other name brand drugs. I wonder how many more ghostwriters will be uncovered as time moves on. BD
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One thing to keep in mind though is the health insurance companies you see today may not be the same companies of the future, take a look at how so many other companies have evolved and just worth giving some thought as you make or break your opinion on healthcare, its all in the code and thats what really rules. Todays laws need to work better with technology so they are in fact binding so perhaps a new approach with algorithmic laws should be in order, so everyone can see and read the facts. Algorithms are sure a lot easier to understand when explained than the emotional bitch sessions we keep seeing on the news and myself, I am no longer entertained and would really like to see progress and some role models in Congress.
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It can be hard to maintain a lifestyle if you have someone who doesn’t agree with it. No one wants to play the healthy food vs junk food game everyday, because it gets old and tiring very quickly. So, how can you get your spouse to eat healthy?
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Whether they are called pressure sores, bed sores, or decubitus ulcers…they are all the same. These horrible wounds are painful and often deadly when they become infected. Estimates indicate that somewhere between 1 and 3 million Americans will suffer from painful pressure sores each year.
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Last week, blogger Alison Bass was one of the few to comment on a new article on the risks of antidepressant medications published electronically last week by the British Medical Journal.[1] The adds to the clinical evidence about these specific drugs. However, it also should remind us about why our health care costs seem to continue to inflate disproportionate to any improvements in health care outcomes.
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As is being practices by most health insurance companies, premiums are going up and the amount of dollars collected by all that go toward claim 
payments is under scrutiny too, we have had that in California too with legislators taking a look from time to time. One item mentioned here too is the fact that Aetna never went deep into the HMO business over the years, and just by size, they are somewhat of a small carrier compared to some of the competition.