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This is great and goes along with some of my recent posts with analytics on steroids for marketing only and also makes a point about what gets put in journals today too.   Dr. Ben Goldacre, talks fast so listen up carefully, but he gets it.  Fish Oil pills is one he takes on as well as coffee and cancer, yes it does and no it doesnt.  On the pills they calculate and project how the children would have done without the pills..bunk. 

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This is a pretty wicked thermometer and you can use it to take the temperature of other things too, like bath water, coffee, sidewalk, you name it.  It does not make contact and it has an LED display.  Its battery operated so all you do is point and hit the button, done.  The name of the thermometer is called Kidz-Med and I cant think of a kid or an adult for this matter that wont appreciate this versus old methodologies and of course use where any bacterial or virus presence may be would be a plus.  BD 

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There are some other known recipients but this is Larrys day in my book:)

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Well after this amount of time and different interpretations we want to make sure that all data and information is included so we get it right.  Why the DOE?  They have the third fastest computer in the world and they do rent out space.  HHS and the NIH have research running on it now so when it comes to something this big, get the right tech power to handle the details and put everything into a format that they can work with.  It makes sense and is exactly how business functions today so theres not reason to go by the seat of our pants on this.  Heres a little history on the Super Computers power and computing space.

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Even in Newport Beach, California hospitals are feeling the pinch and you can read below it all comes back around to reimbursements.  Hoag hospital works with Aetna Insurances IT subsidiaries (Medcity) to connect doctors and health data.  In Health IT areas its getting down to the linking and competiveness of the insurance IT infrastructures going way beyond just processing medical claims with all the various subsidiaries that are out there today and sometimes hard to recognize as some have some pretty long daisy chains.

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We have all heard or read the stories about those who are obese having to wait for special equipment at times to move them either during an ambulance ride or elsewhere and now this blanket type of product makes any cot one that can handle an overweight patient.  It is called the Bariatric Equalizing Abdominal Restraint and wraps around the patient to secure. 

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*******Theres a ton of healthcare addressed here*****

In doing this blog I really have to evaluate what goes up here as with marketing and advertising on steroids today, I want to have good information and not someone just looking for a pitch, I get lots of those.  Theres a few other folks talking about this book too, like Scientific American.  Who coined the word proofiness, none other than Stephen Colbert; and and Jon Stewart are some very smart people.  I talk a lot about the math and how it gets used in healthcare and have made note of this book many times and today heres a radio interview so you can hear more of it yourself.  The professor makes total sense and again if you read here often enough you hear me question some of the marketing analytics time and time again. 

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The doctors in Hawaii stated that that using maggots give the wound a jump start with healing.  Maggot debridement treatment is the actual name of the treatment.  The FDA approved the use of maggots a while back in 2004 for use with diabetics to help heal wounds.  These are maggots grown in a lab and not those found in the wild and they are encased in a something similar to a nylon so they stay put for a couple days.  There were even clinical trials in the UK at a childrens hospital that proved successful.

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There has been a lot of news of late with insurance carriers buying out IPAs and HIMOs in southern California and today we have one more.  Recently you had United Health buying up Monarch in Orange County and Blue Cross buying up CareMore for 2 giant purchases and both have very large memberships of both doctors and patients. 

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Sage is located in the UK and has grown with the purchase of many acquisitions over the years to include the healthcare division with a north American operation providing a Certified medical records system that qualifies doctors for stimulus incentives. 

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