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I’ll admit it… I HATE going to the dentist, or any other health care provider who wants to touch my teeth or poke some metal instrument at my gums.
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This one fits in the “you just can’t make this stuff up” category. Let me provide a summary from the Fort Lauderdale, Florida Sun-Sentinel,
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Bone fractures are the big call item here and it seems the longer the product is used, the greater the potential exposure would be. The purple pills is kind of expensive too. You can read more at the link about the marketing and prescribing news on the purple pill.
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In late 2009, we posted about problems at a Genzyme plant that manufactured some fabulously expensive drugs, e.g. Cerezyme whose cost to patients approximated $160,000 a year. We thought then that for a drug costing that much, the company ought to have figured out a conservative process to provide pure and unadulterated product. In a later post we also why a company that could afford to make its CEO very rich could not afford to adequately maintain its manufacturing facilities.
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He had spinal surgery after suffering and injury while preparing for the tour. He is expected to spend several days in Munich and then return to Ireland to recover. Bono is under the care of Dr Hans-Wilhelm Muller-Wohlfahrt, a world-renowned sports injury specialist at doctor at Bayern Munich. There are not details on how he 
was injured. I wish a speedy recovery and hope to hear him back performing soon. BD
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Back in October of 2008 I made a post about the 2 new hot words in healthcare and it just keeps coming around as these 2 items seem to generate money over and 
over all throughout healthcare.
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We have postulated that one of the key reasons US health care has become so dysfunctional is that the leaders of some of the most august health care institutions have strayed from, if not totally abandoned their organizations’ fundamental missions. There are many possible reasons for this phenomenon, but one is that the ultimate stewards of not-for-profit health care organizations, their boards of directors or trustees, have become uninterested in the mission, or impotent to uphold it. So, we have tried to figure out what has happened to these boards that has lead to this sorry state.
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Now the big job is to get an open ear from the FDA too so all device companies, drug companies could maintain a synchronized data base and this could even go up into a cloud depending on design. Just think the FDA having an automated update system with alerts so they too could know in real time when recalls or additional safety information was added. A Microsoft Tag was even used on the Surface Demonstration at the Microsoft Connected Conference with logging in. Heres a screenshot below, he puts down his card with his Microsoft Tag on the table and hes logged in. Embed of the full video below.
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Last year we noted that the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) required more detailed reporting starting in 2009 by US not-for-profit organizations. Many US health insurance companies/ managed care organizations, most hospitals, nearly all medical associations, nearly all disease advocacy organizations, all health care charities, and nearly all medical schools are not-for-profit organizations. We suggested then that this reporting might lead to more transparency about the leadership and governance of these organizations. Some of these new 990 forms are now being publicly disclosed, with some interesting findings.
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Are you tired of analytical software yet? Heres one more software tool aimed at the employer to help manage their employee benefits as relates to health insurance and what the employees are opting for or what services they could using that are cheaper, like encouraging employees to use generic drugs. In addition, the press release states there are some modules built in here that go into preventive care. 
When we get all done reading this post, lets have some fruitful meaningful use chat (grin).