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More hospital news, this time right under the nose of Washington and Congress, so if this doesnt generate some attention here, I dont know what will, again as most are non participants in consumer healthcare IT so its kind of of hard to see this I guess.  The city  will have to subsidize as the hospital cant meet their debt and bills. 

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I ran across a recent article in the New York Times titled, “Preparing More Care of Elderly.” The article painted a pretty dark picture of the medical care received by the elderly.

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Perhaps in honor of the recently concluded meeting organized by Dr Adriene Fugh-Berman and her colleagues at PharmedOut.org on the pharmaceutical industry and its influence on continuing medical education, three significant posts appeared this week about deceptive pharmaceutical marketing practices. 
On the Health Business Blog, David Williams analyzed how a former pharmaceutical and biotechnology executive spun the Vioxx case, blaming it all on the public’s risk aversion. 
On the Hooked: Ethics, Medicine and Pharma Blog, Dr Howard Brody summarized two significant articles by Kalman Applbaum on complex psychological campaigns, really versions of disinformation campaigns, used to to market pharmaceuticals. 
On the Carlat Psychiatry Blog, Dr Daniel Carlat published a letter about life at a medical school department lead by Dr Charles Nemeroff, one of the ”key opinion leaders” most lavishly paid by pharmaceutical companies to help them market questionable drugs for questionable reasons, and giving observations on Dr Nemeroff’s new career. Read the rest of this entry »

This almost has the sounds of a new reality TV show or maybe I am out to lunch on this one.  I say this because PBS has done a few documentaries on individuals that have been sequenced so with all the talk and publicity, perhaps this is moving in that direction. 

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Big US based health care insurance companies have not been covering themselves in glory in the last week.

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This is probably not a bad thing at all as with doing this blog I see some very strange items getting funded and perhaps now with an additional review the right areas will be funded.  The focus as stated in the article is to specifically look at what is called high risk projects, and it also outlines that these are costly projects as well,

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It seems like theres a report of one of these dumping cases every month on average and those are the ones we hear about.  Shredders are getting easier to find and if you dont want to do it yourself, there are services that will do it for you incase of a large amount of patient charts.  Not too long ago another medical company paid a fine of $50,000 for dumping medical records in Greensboro.  BD

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We tell clients all the time that while they may have been a victim of medical malpractice, from a financial, business perspective, we do not recommend filing a lawsuit.

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Thank goodness Congress acted and gave the extension until December 1st, but we have the other side at CMS looking at their budget saying we want to cut based on the sustainable growth rate formula by 6.1%, which needs to go away as at this point with current series of events over the years that have occurred it is certainly outdated and no longer a viable measure.  One other item here, just think of the stress and unrest this creates every time it comes around.

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I recently had the opportunity to spend some time discussing with Chris Sullivan, National Director, Health Provider Solutions, Microsoft Health & Life Sciences, the companys support and solutions for small physician practices and hospitals.  Electronic medical records and Health IT is foremost on everyones agenda today and Chris provided information on where Microsoft focuses and the many solutions they provide and support. 

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