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Also in the news this week from the Los Angeles Times, Blue Shield it telling people if they are late or miss a payment, cancelled. They do state that one can reapply but your premiums could stand to be higher along with additional restrictions. The grace period goes from 45 to 28 days, so that is 
not completely gone.
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A new study recently found that a significant percentage of depressed or burned-out surgeons believe they have committed major medical errors.
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Be aware of these, I watch for them all the time as they seem to get cagier all the time. Watch especially for those windows that tell you that you 
have a virus, a warning that comes from a web page, not your anti virus software, big targets there that usually load up a Trojan Horse.
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Has an awful ring doesn’t it “wrongful death?”
If someone loses their life because of someone else’s negligence, you can file suit against that person alleging “wrongful death” in civil court. They won’t go to jail, but they may be forced to pay for your pain and suffering which occurred as a result of losing that loved one.
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A little news item in the Newark Star-Ledger:
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I uploaded an Excel Spreadsheet and was amazed at all the data given and analyzed. I used the online sample with US Census data for a few screenshots here. This is what you can upload to work with, CSV, Excel, Sales Force data and Microsoft Dynamics CRM Data. The Cluster Algorithms are pretty interesting.
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I have created a new Web petition “Transparency and Openness in Electronic Patient Records and Other Healthcare Information Technology Systems.”
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I know this makes everyone uneasy and I write many posts on here to create an awareness, in this case to bring to the forefront on how tight banking is tied to health insurance. There are many other posts here, but this example puts in your face if you have not caught on to this fact yet. Personally, I dont know how this system can continue to exist with healthcare reform and believe we would be better off if health insurance returned to the non profit area. Kaiser does non profit pretty well and leads the way with innovation and yet remembers to include the patient, risk management is all about raw numbers and profits, bottom line and they dont care if you or I personally live or die, pay the dividends they say. Just this week 3 major health insurance companies came out and said dividends take the front row here.
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QUESTION: Falls in nursing homes are preventable - True or False.
ANSWER: Depends on who is answering the question.
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Do you want to learn how to become the empowered patient? I talk about this 
quite a bit here and a Twitter colleague has taken the time to write a book about it, based on her own experience and what she had to battle. You can read a sample of the book below and see what it is all about. Trish Torrey also has a blog which you can follow here as well.