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We have heard stories of such and this makes me think back to the drug Provenge which in itself was one huge soap opera with a little bit of everything thrown in. This is pretty bad when a doctor on the panel is giving his opinion to be verbally and or otherwise abused. 
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I ran across an article in Medpage Today which provides a list of ways doctors can avoid being sued….and here they are:
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Three issues that come up frequently on Health Care Renewal are problems with man-machine interfaces in health care information technology (IT), as in this post by Dr Scot Silverstein; ill-informed and mission-ignorant or hostile leaders, sometimes in a position to overrule health care professionals, as in this post; and whistle-blowers, and their silencing.
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This is a new one for me but new medical records folks pop up all the time. I looked 
and saw a street address, but the big thing, nothing on where your records are stored. We all know what Care Tracker EHR is from Ingenix but powered seems to indicate the records are storedhmmmmm..where? ClickFreeMD represents Ingenix Care Tracker, so record server where might you be?
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From down east Maine comes a telling story about the problems of contemporary health care leadership. I assembled this case from three articles by Meg Haskell in the Bangor Daily News, links are below. (1-3)
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This has to be a welcome sigh for sufferers of MS with now being able to take a pill versus injections and I might guess it will be high demand being the first oral drug to 
treat MS. Its not a cure but helps by reducing circulation and entry into the brain of immune cells that cause damage to the brain.
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Ok remember a while back where I said stolen drugs could be located with 
Tags, well here we have a suggestion or an idea, a heat map from Bing. The products could be tagged by lot number and/or products. Obviously on a large scale we are looking at one grand cloud operation here. Device and drug companies could have their own maps and of course with a synchronized FDA data base and perhaps one at the DEA some of those stolen articles could be found when someone goes to scan a product? In case you have missed some of this click on the bar code campaign image and see a summary of what ideas I have been cooking up to even include the White House using them. 
The link is always at the top of the blog for reference any time.
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2 additional size catheters have been added and a hospital acquired infection is every patients and doctors nightmare. Minocycline/rifampin is the antibiotic drug impregnated on the catheter. BD
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After a well-publicized story that managers of small town in California were paid in the high six-figures, reporters in California have gotten interested in the pay of public officials.
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Anybody that reads this blog knows how I talk on this subject as algorithms giveth 
and taketh away. Health insurance companies live and die by the algorithms that create their mathematical formulas for their business decisions. This book is on my list as I found someone who can speak the same language and acknowledges that this goes on day and night. We sleep as humans but the algorithms run 24/7, available to you at almost any time you want to consult them.