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American Medical Association Shutting Down AMA News Magazine in September 27 Aug 2013 | 12:11 pm
Both the printed version and the website will close on September 9th. The magazine has been published for 55 years and there’s a lack of revenue and the inability to show a profit today. Revenue is o...
United Healthcare Sues Government Contractor, Paragon for Unpaid Health Insurance Premiums 27 Aug 2013 | 11:55 am
Here’s yet one more lawsuit from United to where they are stating the company did not pay all their premiums in full. The company, however says it’s not true and they have moved on to another carrier...
Medicare Admissions Rules Causing Havoc, Need a New Model As It Is Becoming Yet One More Way to Shift Cost to the Patients 27 Aug 2013 | 10:54 am
We all know about the re-admissions rules and penalties that put the fear of God into hospitals today and they all work to be compliant, however, if better intelligence were used ahead of the game to ...
Advocate Medical Group In Illinois Data Breach–4 Million Patient Records At Risk After Computers Were Stolen 27 Aug 2013 | 09:41 am
So far there has no indication of any abuse but it is still early in the game . Why they had all the information on the computers instead of a secured server again is beyond me. All of the patients ...
Amgen Buys Onyx for $10.4 Billion–Biotech Cancer Drugs 27 Aug 2013 | 04:40 am
Last week there was additional information released referencing some of the data on the drugs in production at Onyx and this must have done the trick for Amgen to give the go ahead to buy. Last year...
One More Patient Security Breach in Alaska This Time 27 Aug 2013 | 03:35 am
Now this one sounds like complete human error with some one in a hurry to get an email blast out. An attachment went along with the email that divulged the names of disabled patients, all for the sak...
Nancy DeParle Returns to What She Knows, Private Equity-Technology Experience, Knowledge And Being In Touch With Reality Is What Government Needs Toda... 26 Aug 2013 | 10:17 pm
This was kind of a funny interview here and during the initial transition of the White House things were different years back and there were quite a few “transition” type people hired. If you look at...
Another “Stolen Code” Case on Wall Street Emerges–Hope They Get It Right This Time And Either Prosecute the Case Correctly or Dismiss It-The “Evil” Dr... 26 Aug 2013 | 07:17 am
Here we go again and as you might remember the last case against the former Goldman programmer was botched so badly and was never accurately proven. You certainly can’t find a “jury of peers” from or...
Science Researchers Create Cells That Line Blood Vessels from iPSCs–May Lead to Patients Needing Less Blood Thinning Medications In the Future 26 Aug 2013 | 01:07 am
iPSC cells are are wonderful thing by all means and I can go backwards here about 3 years ago when the process began whereby skin or other stem cells can be changed. As you can see from the link belo...
FDA Approves Mass Spectrometer System, VITEK MS That Can Identify 192 Different Tests at Once 26 Aug 2013 | 12:18 am
This is pretty cool with the VITEK MS device, to have the ability to do a large number of tests at one time and there’s the remote connectivity so all don’t have to physically be in one place. The vi...
