Filed Under (The Medical) by Admin on 22-09-2011
Are we not already sick of this. We all know that drugs store chains are almost at the point of making more money by selling data any more for one. Walgreens publicly admitted a few months ago that their data selling business was worth just under $800 million so perhaps that may be part of the reason here for more jumping in and gee we cant even imagine the millions that Facebook makes off of selling 
data profiles as there are apps, games and so for the embedded in their platform all over the place. I think the secondary purpose of a drug store is to provide drugs in order to get that big profitable data to sell, but problem is we are out of balance and our economy cant live on algorithms alone.
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Filed Under (The Medical) by Admin on 21-09-2011
Its always interesting to see whats happening occasionally in other countries with healthcare and in this case there have bee months of doctors striking for better working conditions who work at government hospitals. In addition, most of them 
moonlight with private care to make ends meet. It sounds like they have the same ailment that we have in the US with insurance to a degree.
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Filed Under (The Medical) by Admin on 20-09-2011
Strikes from nurses in California seem to be taking place a bit more frequently although nurses are going on strike all over the US. Back in March of this year in Southern California nurses held a one day strike in the Los Angels area wanting better working conditions.
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Filed Under (The Medical) by Admin on 20-09-2011
This is fascinating on how Richard Resnick describes how sequencing is finding 
cures and treatments for diseases by identifying the gene. When you listen you can hear about various diseases where treatments were found, again by identifying the genome.
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Filed Under (The Medical) by Admin on 19-09-2011
This is just so funny and if you have not seen the Annoying Orange, it is annoying 
but funny. Its time for good humor post and here this fits! Normally the orange sits around and talks with other fruits and vegetables in the kitchen to include real apples and this is an encounter of a different kind. Theres actually a game now available as well with the Annoying Orange.
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Filed Under (The Medical) by Admin on 18-09-2011
To treat heart failure, Mesoblasts Revascor treatment uses stem-cell technology to rebuild blood vessels and heart muscles. Mesoblast is located in Australia and the 
stem cell treatment does not use embryonic stem cells. Revascor is based on stem cells in bone marrow and the miraculous finding here is that it does not set off any immune responses. 225 patients in Europe will be enrolled who have suffered severe heart attacks. There have already been some other clinical trial results reported back in January.
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Filed Under (The Medical) by Admin on 16-09-2011
When you stop and look back on how the reform law was created with the give and takes, every day you can see in the news that the omission of a public option would have truly completed the framework for the US law and now everyone blames the President, but how can you do that when you end up passing a law that was fragmented due to lobbyist efforts and as you can see things have changed a lot in 2 years. Insurance companies have gone on huge buying sprees for Health IT companies to make money in those area outside of just selling premiums. You see it all over today with Untied Health and Aetna and I call it subsidiary watch. We have the GOP I guess to thank for this with continued digital illiteracy in their stands and just basically what we hear today coming out of their mouths with all the OMG stories in the press. They still live in the old days and keep trying to force old methodologies our way and they just dont work. 
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Filed Under (The Medical) by Admin on 14-09-2011
Ok if you have not seen this on the web already today, here it is and this happened in China where the spa lets the eels nibble away at your dry skin. Next time wear underwear is what I would say, a nice pair of speedos would keep the eels away. The surgery took 3 hours and to remove from the 56 year old mans bladder.
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Filed Under (The Medical) by Admin on 14-09-2011
In reading the article it also states that the government is actually going to pursue 
the physicians as well, simply due to the nature of the fraudulent billing. In addition the former CEO of the Ohio Valley hospital was sued for draining endowment funds and hid information from the board while also making illegal payments to the doctors so it sounds like he was right in all of this. BD
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Filed Under (The Medical) by Admin on 13-09-2011
You have to love this video and the conversations between the 2 and anybody in medical billing will certainly jump on this one for sure. I liked it and thought this is really good for the general public to know. When I was writing my medical records program I had to import all these updates to the current system all the time, each quarter codes are added and codes are deleted. When doctors create their super 
bills, this means change if any of them affect the most commonly used codes. Shoot years ago I had a doctor hit the ceiling when all the diabetes codes were expanded and this was 5-6 years ago.
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data profiles as there are apps, games and so for the embedded in their platform all over the place. I think the secondary purpose of a drug store is to provide drugs in order to get that big profitable data to sell, but problem is we are out of balance and our economy cant live on algorithms alone. 
