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WHAT MAKES FOR A GOOD NURSING HOME? WELL-TRAINED AND HAPPY NURSES!

Filed Under (Legal Medical) by Admin on 30-09-2010

We have many clients (and friends) who ask, “what it the one thing I should look for in finding a good nursing home to care for a family member?”

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That Wheel Was Already Invented: the UN Special Rapporteur’s Guidelines for Pharmaceutical Companies

Filed Under (Health Care) by Admin on 30-09-2010

For five years now, we have been writing about concentration and abuse of power in health care, and on specific tactics used predominantly by large health care organizations that threaten the values that physicians and other health care professionals once swore to uphold.

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Bill Gates and Warren Buffett Carry the Message of “The Giving Pledge” To China With Discussing Philanthropy And Yielded A Successful Exchange of Ideas From Both Sides

Filed Under (The Medical) by Admin on 29-09-2010

Recently I made a post about Bill Gates being a keynote speaker at this years mHealth Convention and also linked back to the events of the The Giving Pledge as well.  You can revisit some of this at the posts at the link below.image  is there any doubt that the mHealth Summit is going to be one of the top events of the year with mobile healthcare?

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FAILURE TO DIAGNOSE CANCER

Filed Under (Legal Medical) by Admin on 29-09-2010

It should not be news to anyone, that some kinds of cancer can be prevented…. and others, when caught early enough, can be treated.

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Dr. Richard Gilfillan Named New Acting Director of Innovation For Medicare and Medicaid–Hope To Repair Some Broken and Non Ethical Algorithms in Healthcare Reform?

Filed Under (The Medical) by Admin on 29-09-2010

You certainly have to be innovative in working with insurers today, thats an imageunderstatement and it appears this is the area where CMS is looking for some innovation as theres a lot of work to be done and when the insurers have all the data and IT infrastructure, its a delicate balance.  We need more than just one more software house to solve issues and that seems to be all that we are seeing out there today with everyone jumping on their cost analysis algorithms and telling us how wonderful they are, so a human touch to balance would be nice to bring patient care back in line. 

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More Tales of Hospital Executive Compensation: Pay for What?

Filed Under (Health Care) by Admin on 28-09-2010

I have collected another series of stories from the wild and wacky world of health care executive compensation.  These are from three different hospitals/ hospital systems, ordered from smallest to largest.

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Axolotl (A Subsidiary of Ingenix) Creates Reporting and Analytics Solution for Health Information Exchanges–Algorithms for HIE–Business Intelligence -Subsidiary Watch

Filed Under (The Medical) by Admin on 28-09-2010

Well it just keeps rolling in the analytics game, and Ingenix is a United Health Group subsidiary, so they are into everything just about where analytics are used.  image

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MEDICAL MALPRACTICE AGAINST THE VA

Filed Under (Legal Medical) by Admin on 28-09-2010

Its heart breaking but true..

We have people call our office all the time that went to our local Veterans Administration Hospital for care, and something happened.

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FDA Approves Contraceptive Beyaz-Estrogen/Progesterone Pill That Adds Folate (B-Vitamin)

Filed Under (The Medical) by Admin on 27-09-2010

Beyaz is the same pill formulation as Yaz, just some added vitamins here.  Also, earlier this year there was a recall that was kind of hidden on the FDA recall pages relating to Yaz so you can find out more at the link below.

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Rachel Maddow, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert Are Entertainers But More Importantly Provide Avenues of Communication for Americans With Congress To Include A Shot of Reality–Especially Healthcare (Opinion)

Filed Under (The Medical) by Admin on 26-09-2010

When you stop and think about the popularity of the 3 above individuals, they all have one thing in common, they are great communicators, and I like and watch all 3 imageof them.  In todays society I think I have a lot of company in that respect as well.  These folks make sense and are talented enough to break through the walls of deaf ears and at least bring about an awareness in areas that others dont seem to approach.  All of them not only make us laugh, but they also make us think. 

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