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A while back I spoke with Rob Lyles from Cook Medical when they stent came out and being it goes in your leg as treatment for PAD, its has some different areas it needs to address, one being stability.  When you think about your heart its there in one place, but legs move and do all kinds of activities and thus the placement and stability mean lot as you dont want it to move.

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As Occupy Wall Street has gone from an obscure protest covered only on blogs and social media to a national phenomenon, the apparent parallels between the issues it is raising and the issues we have been raising in health care grows.

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Everyone is looking to improve profits every which way they can and of course behind the scenes is the enticing dollar enriched data selling business that seems to be pushing a lot of this as who doesnt want to rake in millions like Facebook does with selling data? To be fair, drug stores though have been selling prescription data for a long time, but this has take a new twist over the last few years too and the prospect of a drug rep having access is nothing compared to the money being made.  As a matter of fact the CFO of Walgreens said a while back that their data selling business was worth just under $800 million, thats a lot of money and the idea of combining and analyzing retail purchases along with adding on the prescription data leaves a ton of data to be marketed to those who are paying for it. 

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I’ve realized that these past posts, when integrated for an upcoming investigation, tell a frightening story that is probably not uncommon in hospitals today. They form a sort of Diary of Death by EHR.

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If a man is unfortunate enough to suffer from this condition, theres relief in more ways than one it appears and Lilly will be pushing it.  There are other drugs that also treat the condition but they dont have the extra ED benefits tied in.  The drug is not cheap either when you do a comparison to Proscar for one example.  At close to $17.00 per pill and with taking one everyday with the lower dose, well you can do the math.  BD 

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Back in August I wrote about this and still wonder whats being done with the $7 million in grants that the Orange County REC center received, so lets do a visual this time.  You can get the picture here as the Orange County office who was granted the $7 million has one page that is on the Cal-Optimas website who administers California Medicaid, and thats it with no information other than a link to an interest form.  It has been the same page with no changes for at least a year. 

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Case 1. Tumult

October 5, 2011
New York Times
Patient Data Landed Online After a Series of Missteps

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We just discussed how leaders of big health care corporations with histories of ethical and legal missteps want to export our supposedly “wonderful technology, wonderful approaches” to the rest of the world.  A story on the Huffington Post showed how big health care corporations, partnering with the US government, have already been doing that with not very pretty results.  The article discussed two cases, connected by a single person who transited the revolving door from government to the pharmaceutical industry and then back to government.

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Seeking justice for healthcare errors is often a disconcerting, if not sleazy affair. This can be gleaned from recent posts such as here, here, here and here.

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I have the answer to these cutbacks of pubic health services.

Let’s spend tens or even better, hundreds of billions of dollars more on experimental healthcare IT.

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