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One good thing about this senator, Jim Bunning, is the fact that he is retiring and perhaps not soon enough.  His big battle was not wanting to add to the deficit, but its there anyway for all to work on, so lets dig a deeper grave here for the unemployed who are also someones patient and make life a little more difficult right now.  In addition when they get sick, there needs to be a physician who will see them and with the Medicare cuts and some of those individuals maybe getting close to qualify for Medicare, we are not accomplishing anything here. 

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Unlike the robot itself, theres no operating room required for the simulator and you can see an external monitor for teaching purposes.  At $100,000 per machine, its a lot cheaper than having to practice on the actual robot.  Through the software there are a number of surgical procedures that can be added for practice.

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Imaging and diagnosis processes save many lives each year and is a part of healthcare imaging today, no matter where you are.  The safety comes as suggested here with better training, but more importantly better and revised software is the key. The reason I say this is you can have the absolutely best trained, certified and qualified technician working and if the software is not doing its part, it is not the fault of the technician. 

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In case you need a little refreshing from the past, this company was formerly named VeriChip, the implanted chip people.  You can see from a fairly recent post below that their implanted chip now talks with Google Health and HealthVault.  The iGlucose system has it owns PHR and will be able to work via alarms and messages as they relate to real time glucose readings.  The 2 press releases from today are below. 

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Well Im waiting for the blog to start asking for opinions and suggestions here, its what people do that dont know what to do.  Here we have one more meeting to talk about this again.  We have had months of talk and all I see is a whole bunch of leaders that in fact appear not to be leaders at all as most suffer from tech denial and cant wake up and smell the servers.  In other words they are completely oblivious to the world that is evolving around them.  Its the algorithms stupid!

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A very interesting lawsuit is moving through the system in Roanoke, Virginia. The case, filed on behalf of Ronald Burchett, initially started out as a fairly routine medical malpractice case. The suit alleged that Burchett was admitted to Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital in March 2008. He was septic, had severely low blood pressure and was suffering from respiratory failure. Ultimately it was determined that he had acute colonic pseudo-obstruction, a condition in which the colon dilates significantly, and Burchett’s colon burst. A gastroenterologist was not initially called to examine Burchett.

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Starting in 2007, we posted quite a bit about the “Avandia case,” which centered on whether Avandia (rosiglitazone, by GlaxoSmithKline), a glucose lowering drug for type 2 diabetes, presented excess cardiovascular risks, and how evidence about these risks was handled. 

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The American College of Cardiology (ACC) created the PINNACLE Registry, an office based quality improvement program based on proven guidelines.  The PINNACLE registry was designed by cardiologists and integrates with Medical Informatics CCHIT certified EHR. 

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There has been a tremendous amount of news coverage of a large rate increase proposed by Anthem Blue Cross, a subsidiary of WellPoint, in California.  For example, the Los Angeles Times reported last week,
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I read somewhere in the news today that the Presidents plan contains IT, well I certainly hope so and speaking of such lets get some IT to run some audit tables based on what I am reading here.  Algorithms can manipulate and change numbers to get desired results.  You cant get around this, its how they do business based on business intelligence software.  This is also interesting to see that they have such a big stock pile of reserves when it was just last week another office of Blue Cross was saying they only have enough reserve funds for 2 months worth of claims.  

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