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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 world of electronic medical records is very secretive.

Vendors will not allow their programs or data structures to be examined, even by the academic community. Their products, medical devices, are not vetted by regulatory agencies such as the FDA for quality.

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The world of electronic medical records is very secretive.

Vendors will not allow their programs or data structures to be examined, even by the academic community. Their products, medical devices, are not vetted by regulatory agencies such as the FDA for quality.

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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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The bureaucrats always seem to find new ways to waste precious medical resources and capital to justify their existence.

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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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It was just a short article in Bloomberg about yet another misstep by Johnson and Johnson….
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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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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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