Fight Health Worries|Healthy Living Techniques

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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Potential clients often assume I take everything at face value that is found in the medical record.

They even assume, sometimes, that records have been changed and that you cannot prove it.

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When we began Health Care Renewal in late 2004, we focused on “concentration and abuse of power” as a driver of dysfunction in the health system.  We have frequently discussed how problems with the leaders of health care organizations, who may be uninformed, incompetent, self-interested, conflicted, or even corrupt, may be a major cause of rising costs, declining access, and poor quality.  This week, the news reminded us how unsustainable US health care costs have become.  The average cost of health care insurance for those fortunate enough to have it provided by employers exceeded $15,000 last year (look here), a year in which median house-hold income fell under $50,000 (look here).  Yet there is no evidence that the country with the world’s most expensive health care has anything approaching the world’s best health care. 

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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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Health care is sometimes a two way street.

What I mean by that is the following:

Doctors and nurses treat patients, advise on what to do, how to be, what not to do, etc. And sometimes, the health care providers make mistakes and harm results. And sometimes the patient makes mistakes and harm results.

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I first became dimly aware of how dysfunctional health care had become in the US after seeing, up close and personal, a case of attempted suppression of medical research because its content offended vested interests.  (See ”Academic Freedom and the Corporate University” by Jennifer Washburn here.)  We have since blogged frequently about suppression of research, other threats to free speech and academic freedom in health care, and the larger anechoic effect, which undermines discussion of many of the threats to core values in health care.

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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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