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Big money to be made in health payment processing

RE: Rolling Charges to end of yearI like the idea, but hang on. I thought we weren't allowed to solve healthcare problems anymore without government intervention. It's actually refreshing to hear someone propose a healthcare fix that doesn't require ten tons of bureaucracy to manage, and actually...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, health care, health payment, BIG MONEY

Discussion threads 2009-08-17

Visa going direct into health payments market

Visa going direct into health payments marketHave some pieThis is "pie in the sky". I have worked in managed care since 2002 collecting for hospitals from all the insurers, self-funded ERISA and other plans that approve treatment and then don't pay.Every carrier and plan reads a disclaimer which says...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, Benefits, Insurance, insurer/plan, Visa Inc., health payment, health care

Discussion threads 2009-03-13

Additional Resources

Chatting (Not Chattering) About Salesforce - Part I

(NOTE BEFORE I START: This is one really long post. So rather than post it in all its glory in a single file or post it here over two days, I'm trying something new. I'm posting the first half here. And the second half on PGreenblog.  Let's see how that...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Customer Service, Twitter Inc., Sales Force, Customer, CRM, Integration, Force.com, Service Cloud 2, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Sales, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-11-23

Why not pay for what works?

Lawsuits not a costly issueThat's a typical republican, politcal response. Studies have been done to show that's it's a very small percentage of overall costs in healthcare. Not that tort reform wouldn't help, it's just a small issue in the big picture.Most unnecessarly procedures are generally performed...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, Betsy McCaughey

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

New LoroBot ransomware encrypts files, demands $100 for decryption

You forgot to mention....which OSs it affects! Or is it based on something multi-platform like Java?Look at the bigger size version of the screenshot, it's all in thereA lot of russian characters and...YES, you guessed it right, the word "windows" prominently displayed in red in the title.Who would ever thought...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, LoroBot, decryption, malware

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

Head cracking time on health care reform

"And I can get back to writing about tech."NO - get to writing about TECH now - and stop using this site for your liberal soapboxing!the only head that will crack wil be Obama'sReal Americans are concerned about deficit, death panels and the slippery slope to socialism.This 'reform' will fail...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, health care, soapboxing, healthcare reform

Discussion threads 2009-10-08

Intuit service shows how little patients count

OpportunityIf I wanted to make a lot of money spamming people, I'd just send out phony doctor bills.Nobody has any idea how many bills they are supposed to be getting, or how much they are supposed to be. One more for "lab fees" would probably get paid by a...

Tags: Insurance, Intuit Inc., patient, vet

Discussion threads 2009-09-25

The problem with health care is costs and you

I think my head is going to explode.Is anyone else confused and frustrated about this topic??? Some people are crying "Social Medicine Go Away but don't touch Medicare or Medicaid" Some people are saying "Capitalism should dominate Health care" Other people are blaming the patients for being sick. Other people...

Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, New Taxes, Ins, Compassion, health care, insurance

Discussion threads 2009-09-23

Why health care is not in the Constitution

Neither are food, clothing, and shelterThey're nowhere to be found in the constitution, yet are more important than healthcare. Without those 3 things you'll die real fast so you won't need healthcare. Those needs DID exist when the Constitution was written. There is no federal law making any...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Obama, health care, Constitution

Discussion threads 2009-08-31

Packaged software, an accident of history

"government engineered" ????"dysfunctional business model"Sounds like someone is looking for a new "revenue stream"!This sounds suspiciously like the "lease a car" vs "rent a car" debate. Change the looks of the same old clunker to "generate sales" without really improving anything.Feudal Europe had the royalty owning the land and...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Web Standard, software, accident

Discussion threads 2009-08-24

Open source can save your life

Quick, if your life depended on it, which health care information system would you rather your hospital used: A proprietary system developed by software engineers based on marketing input, bug reports and customer requests? An open source system developed by thousands of health care practitioners including...

Tags: Hospital, Open Source, Health Care, VA, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Human Resources, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2009-08-23

News to know: MySpace-iLike; Gmail; Twitter; Sony Ericsson; Secure smartphones

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Andrew Nusca: MySpace to acquire social music service iLike for $20 million Matthew Miller: Push Gmail comes to the...

Tags: Google Gmail, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, Dana Blankenhorn, Smart Phone, Andrew Nusca, Matthew Miller, Twitter, Sam Diaz, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows 7, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), E-mail Providers, E-mail, Research & Development, Cloud Computing, Smart Phones, Hardware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Online Communications, Business Operations, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2009-08-18

Big money to be made in health payment processing

Let me offer a modest proposal, that insurers offer doctors a "petty cash" service through credit card processors. All charges under, say, $20 are passed to the fund and reported to the patient, not billed but reported. At the end of the billing year patients get one bill, which could...

Tags: Payment Processing, Payment, Patient, Health Care, Operational Accounting, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-08-17

Who might get health reform passed?

They're notAnother poll shows that 71% of those surveyed believe there should be a public option. Again, it's of those surveyed - not all Americans. Sort of like your poll.As for the Round Table, I think most large companies are aware of how much their health care benefits...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, public option, health care

Discussion threads 2009-08-12

Ridiculous lawsuit against Amazon

Ridiculous lawsuit against AmazonRE: a quick read of [the TOS] shows that Amazon absolutely [has] the right your claim is ludicrous. The health insurance industry wants to takeyour money until you get sick-- then you're on your own; the creditcard industry reserves the right to change your lending agreement--...

Tags: health insurance industry, Amazon.com Inc., lawsuit

Discussion threads 2009-07-31

Meaningful use debate approaches climax

Meaningful use debate approaches climaxClarify "Adoption" pleaseYour argument that adoption may delay delivery of stimulus funds seems logical.Mr. Doyle's answer seems to suggest that he may be not be talking about the same thing you are. How can procurement, implementation, testing and bring of a system online, and verification...

Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, Doyle, Meaningful Use, stimulus fund

Discussion threads 2009-07-15

Coca-Cola Teaches The World To....

"Participating in the community of the consumer." I love that phrase.  That's the way Jim Keyes, Blockbuster CEO described their Facebook group - which is for the most part, despite all our conversations to the contrary, is what most people think of when you say "community" or "social network"...

Tags: Facebook, Fan, Coca-Cola Co., Beverage, Customer, Machine, Coke, Coca-Cola Freestyle, Food & Beverage, RFID, Manufacturing, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-07-15

Paglo SaaS offering provides means to harness untamed collection of log and IT resources data

Paglo, the IT management software-as-a-service SaaS company, recently announced a new low-cost service that allows companies to tackle the Herculean task of trying to winnow out a rapidly growing mountain of log data. With log data piling up in terabyte leaps and increasing regulatory pressure to maintain...

Tags: Security, Software-as-a-service, Performance, Information Technology, Service, Paglo Logs, Log Management Service, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Performance Management, Emerging Technologies, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-07-09

HOLIDAY & Weekly Jokes Date Book Archive 2.0 (Mobile)

The most popular and complete DateBook add-on available! This Program is a Holiday .dba file that places Most of the US holidays and some foreign holidays and some religous holidays, all in your Palm Datebook! It also includes a note on many of the holidays describing why this holiday is...

Tags: Holiday, Mobile, LarzCD, Free Trial Version, Operational Accounting, Finance

Software downloads 2009-07-08

Limits urged on genetic testing

Limits urged on genetic testingPreexisting conditions.Nothing will be used to help the consumer. It is used against the consumer to maximize profits. Wait till some genome company gets to broker your data. This is the future goldmine. It is more profitable to collect premiums and then bump them off thru...

Tags: Insurance, Vertical industries, Benefits, insurance company, public option, health care

Discussion threads 2009-07-07