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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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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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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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We are all still trying to figure that one ourselves:)  This is done to promote the doctors new book at Harvard Medical, Your Medical Minds from Dr. Jerome Goodman.  This is so funny in Colbert style.  He talks about the patient adding their values.  Where do I get my medicationsfrom Canadian fake Viagra storesmedicine is not black and white.  Colbert says he needs a second opinion via either Twitter or Wikipedia.  This doctor works up at Beth Israel in Boston where we I cover a lot of material from Dr. Halamka, the CIO of the medical center and Harvard Medical at the Quack.  BD

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Autonomy is basically data aggregating and machine learning technology and theres a medical division that has been around for a long time and you can see the AMA, Kaiser and Sutter and a few other are using the software.  Theres so much information out there and HP feels that $12 billion is a bargain?  Larry Ellison said it was way over priced.  In the video the CEO talks about the black box in the video and talks about how things change their meanings frequently.  Larry could take the software or a similar offering and place it all in the new Oracle clouds and is now pushing parallel computing.  BD

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I have been watching the news coverage just like everybody else and seen the frustration and a united grouping of no one cause, just a society of frustrated citizens and yes it is here and you cant hide it and that is what I see the movement to be.  Nobody has come along and dug and deeper though to really see how this all came about and bottom line is the math.

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This is probably the most exciting part of healthcare today with finding cures and treatments and 25 nations will be represented here.  Cedars is no stranger to stem cell clinical trials themselves.  Video and additional information at the link below with heart treatments.  BD 

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Its time to be a bit of a devils advocate here and this is not the first time Ive done this but rather trying to be realistic and talk about the reality of where we are today with algorithms and apps.  If you want the truth of the matter when you run contests sure you get coders in there, but not necessarily folks who do healthcare and they just go to work wanting a big pay day.  Healthcare apps are much more successful when they are built in a clinical environment, even the consumer apps because a patient is going to talk to their doctor about them.  So here we go again with one more contest and even the coder that build them, lets say they are a general app in this instance, dont use the apps themselves, so we are back to the old paradigm of its for those guys over there again. 

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It seems everywhere you turn today with Health IT investments theres a chunk of changed headed toward United.  The company was an acquisition made by the large behemoth in August of 2010.  If they cant buy the exchange I guess the next best thing here is to get your subsidiary in action.  We heard that a few days ago with Blue Cross buying an exchange.  In addition to the medical records that Ingenix (OptumInsight) has owned and sold for years, the acquisition of Axolotl gives them a second EHR to sell along with HIE capabilities. 

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