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- Always-on boosted by British government study
- Always-on boosted by British government studyAlways On ... and the Food PoliceWhat happens when the cops show up at the grocery store and arrest you for purchasing that TwinkieR? Or you get a surcharge bill from your insurance company because your food purchases don't match your prescribed diet?Not likely? Well,...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-07
- Questioning IT
- Questioning ITConsistencyIn a prior entry, didn't you make the unassailable point that in a disaster Murphy's Law (a tribute to haplessness?) will assure that the best laid plans...So all that practice is like the mouse's "mony a weary nibble" creating a home that was destroyed in the Robert Burns poem...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-25
- Integrated health management
- Eighteen luminaries (including Google co-founder Larry Page) recently developed a list of 14 Grand Engineering Challenges which they consider "essential for humanity to flourish." A couple of the challenges seem a bit...odd (Enhance Virtual Reality, Reverse Engineer the Brain), but one stands out from the rest (at least, for the...
- Blog posts 2008-04-10
- AdvaMed says of health care inflation, not me
- We have reached the stage in the health care debate where everyone is pointing the blame, and pointing it elsewhere. It's like the Family Circus Not Me. Who did it, Billy? Not me. In this case the Not Me is a study, from AdvaMed,...
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
- Will comparative effectiveness cut medical market?
- For those expecting medical spending to ride out the coming recession, a new Congressional Budget Office study should give you pause. The study's conclusion sounds simple and non-controversial: Better information about the costs and benefits of different treatment options—through research on the comparative effectiveness of those options—could...
- Blog posts 2008-01-16
- Becoming cyborg: Beware inequalities ahead
- For the past couple of months I have been exploring a different kind of technology, the biological ones. You see, I need a new neck. Most of the big news in medical technology seems these days to revolve around genetic discoveries. Nevertheless, the first kind of...
- Blog posts 2008-01-03
- Who will mandate electronic health records?
- Who will mandate electronic health records?MD's should hesitate to implement EHRsAs an investment banker covering health IT and a former health IT executive, the MD's have it right and everyone else has it wrong. EHRs have typically been found to add an hour a day to the physician's workload,...
- Discussion threads 2007-12-10
- Who will mandate electronic health records?
- There's a race on to mandate electronic health records. (Picture from Medical Informatics Insider.) Insurers, politicians and hospitals are all piling on the pressure to make the investment. An AMA story this week describes the pressure. Some doctors are retiring rather than automate. In...
- Blog posts 2007-12-10
- The Insecurity of Test Data: The Unseen Crisis
- When a large Midwestern US insurance company hired an outside expert from a respected technology consulting firm to develop business application software, it didn't think that it was turning test data over to an identity thief. In the course of completing a software project, the technology consultant attempted to sell...
- White papers 2007-12-01
- U.K. insurer computes pay-as-you-drive rates
- U.K. insurer computes pay-as-you-drive ratesBig BrotherOne must assume that the in-car system includes a GPS -- so, on a second-by-second basis, they are recording your position as well as how you are driving. Wonderful.One can only wonder when all that data will be handed over to the Government or anyone...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-28
- How far can predictive health take us?
- How far can predictive health take us?Scarry.Any talk about genetics and health care always makes me nervous. If the insurance companies could figure out a way to label genetic diseases as pre existing conditions the cost savings for them would be enormous. Even graduated rates based on genetic predispositions...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-28
- Today's Debate: Is open source the cure for health care?
- Open source is the cure for what ails health care IT, according to Bruce Wilder. Wilder, writing in Advance for Health Information Executives, notes that current Electronic Health Record EHR systems can cost $44,000 to install, and $8,500/year to maintain, per doctor. But his argument for open...
- Blog posts 2007-09-26
- Today's Debate: Who says no?
- Today's Debate: Who says no?Nothing changes[i]Note, please, that if we’re going to tackle health care reform in a meaningful way, and take these decisions out of the hands of insurers, they still have to go somewhere. So, where?[/i]The Golden Rule applies: whoever has the gold, makes the rules. That...
- Discussion threads 2007-09-19
- Today's Debate: Doctors vs. Insurers
- Physician and blogger Stanley Feld has launched a crusade against the insurer-led health management system known as pay for performance, or P4P.In a series of posts to his blog (1,2,3) Dr. Feld describes the "quality" measures used by many insurers, their disconnect with patient outcomes and real costs, along with...
- Blog posts 2007-08-07
- Insurance 2020: Innovating beyond old models
- Insurance companies will soon face endless opportunities for growth. But are current technologies capable of handling the potential for new business? The IBM Institute for Business Value examined large-scale trends likely to confront insurers in the year 2020. This article highlights strategies for profiting from these changes.
- White papers 2006-08-31
- IBM ensures business continuity at Allianz Ireland
- Allianz Ireland is one of the country's largest multi-line general insurance companies employing over 900 people in offices throughout the country. Allianz Ireland provides personal and commercial insurance and is the leading insurer in many key areas including construction, credit, marine and aviation insurance.
- Case studies 2006-06-28
- Bill would use federal insurers' reserves to fund electronic health records
- In an effort to push insurance companies towards deploying electronic health records, Republican Rep. Jon Porter of Nevada will introduce a bill to establish electronic records in the federal employee health benefits program, Stephen Barr reports in the Washington Post. "They just need the encouragement to take...
- Blog posts 2006-03-02
- On high-tech hematology
- According to New Scientist (Jan. 28 to Feb. 3, 2006), a South African inventor has developed a watch that automatically sticks you every six hours (with an 0.5mm needle that emerges from the watch's underside) and searches the resulting blood sample for the malaria parasite. Its alarm goes off...
- Blog posts 2006-02-13
- Insurer launches $10 million open-source policy
- Insurer launches $10 million open-source policyHmmm...As I understand insurance in general this isof course a rip off.However on the other hand it must be some sort of back handed compliment on the insurance industries part towards Open Source cause well as a general rule Insurance companies don't insure homes in...
- Discussion threads 2005-10-31
- Enhancing Value Through Data Mining
- In spite of centuries of sales experience, most insurers rely heavily on price for acquiring and retaining customers. The reality is that customers base insurance purchasing decisions on many factors. While this does not mean that one can ignore pricing, it does mean that alternatives exist for insurers to remain...
- White papers 2005-10-01
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