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- Are IT malpractice suits around the corner?
- Are IT malpractice suits around the corner?Merchantability is implied in any...product. It can not be written out in a contract or license. It is time for IT vendors, software or hardware or any combination, to be held financially accountable for their actions. Everyone else in the world is held...
- Tags: Outsourcing, Malpractice, MERCHANTABILITY, malpractice, Andersen Consulting, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-04-03
- From study to action and the media is culpable
- From study to action and the media is culpableMalpractice?Malpractice is too strong a word for what journalists do when they report on a study in isolation from the larger medical context. Perhaps some articles border on practicing medicine without a license, but not malpractice.Journalism without inteligence!Take zdnet for example! If...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Malpractice
- Discussion threads 2008-01-28
- UK Microsoft: Label incompetent IT pros
- UK Microsoft: Label incompetent IT prosLet's see, maybe we should start with companies that produce shoddysoftware, resulting in millions of vulnerabilities, and untold damages to the industry. We also need categories for companies that refuse to comply with standards, and create no end of problems for people like, say, web...
- Tags: Strategy, Recruitment & Selection, Quality, Self-Policing, IT Certifications, Professional Organizations, information technology, incompetent IT pro, malpractice, IT Pros, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-05-24
- The debate on software malpractice
- The debate on software malpracticeName two"Many advocates in the Open Source community favor software liability lawsuits because they view it as a way of bringing down Closed Source software companies since they're selling a product that can be sued."Name two.More FUD, there are no more open source proponents advocating liability...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Backups, software, malpractice, software company
- Discussion threads 2005-10-13
- The debate on software malpractice
- In Tom Espiner's story about former White House cyber-security adviser Howard Schmidt and liability for software flaws, a security representative of the BCS British Computer Society said that Schmidt had suggested personal accountability for software developers on the software they write. The article was mistakenly titled "Expert: Hold...
- Tags: software, software company
- Blog posts 2005-10-13
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- Best way to sell drugs is to talk to your doctor
- Best way to sell drugs is to talk to your doctorit all depends...Having many physician friends, I know of only a few who are eager beavers when it came to prescribing new medicines. I don't even think they listen to the drug reps half the time due to time...
- Tags: patient
- Discussion threads 2008-09-04
- When Google disowns you
- When Google disowns youThis is a real danger in general with the "Cloud"PaaS, SaaS,Cloud, or call it what you want, this is only one of the major problems that can creep up when you pass your data and applications on to a third party service provider. You put your business...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Storage Encryption, Long-Term Data Usability, NameSecure, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-06
- Ready for real Indian medicine?
- With political sovereignty over quality-killing issues such as medical malpractice and a "clean-sheet" approach, Medical Onshoring could provide certain services (e.g., cardio-vascular, artificial knees) at prices at least 15% less than local hospitals. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Blue Cross Blue Shield, Hospital, North Dakota, Healthcare, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Have insurers tied their fate to Newt Gingrich?
- Have insurers tied their fate to Newt Gingrich?Greed is the problem with our systemYes we are capitolists but greed is problem when it comes to affecting the lives of millions.People sue for malpractice and receive millions. Laywers make a bunch a money from the cases. Insurers make money...
- Tags: Insurance, insurance company
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- The key barrier to health care reform
- The key barrier to health care reformReducing residenciesHey, at least Georgia [b]has[/b] residencies. Arizona's University Hospital has, thanks to Andrew Weil, turned all of its general practice residencies into NCCAAM-funded "alternative health care" training programs.If you think it's bad now, wait until your insurance only covers "therapeutic touch" and...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, barrier, health care, residency, physician
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- What putting off health care means
- What putting off health care meansPreventionI used to get severe headaches occasionally migraine whenever the weather changed. If a thunderstorm was coming, I would get a bad headache. When the weather was turning nice again, I would get a severe headache. I had a couple of dental...
- Tags: Vertical industries, health care, insurance
- Discussion threads 2008-06-30
- Might we see a doctors' strike?
- Might we see a doctors' strike?Because the system is so broken...I have seen a resurgence of homeopathic medical practices. My regular civilian physician is a homeopathic doctor.My chiropractor only takes cash or check and keeps his patient records on 3x5 cards... still. He doesn't trust the system.I think what is...
- Tags: Insurance, Financial Planning, HEALTHCARE, strike
- Discussion threads 2008-06-20
- The insurers bid to fix health care
- The insurers bid to fix health carethe problem isthat no one wants to lay the blame where it belongs. Government. Because that would mean killing socialized medicine.Bingo!!Blanky doesn't want to admit that tort reform *is* needed. My sister is a doc...the cost to her for malpractice insurance is shocking....
- Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Socialized Medicine, insurance company, tort, health care, insurance
- Discussion threads 2008-05-30
- The insurers bid to fix health care
- The health insurance industry, which some feel has created the health care crisis, has some proposals to fix it all. The proposals were sent, in press release form, as a set of principles for reform the industry claims could save $146 billion by 2015. ...
- Tags: Industry, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- Put some IT pros in jail
- Is IT a "profession?" Certifications and professional organizations are window dressing. IT won't be a profession until IT people start going to jail. People who shred paper can go to jail. Why not negligent people whose info system design and operation have the same effect? ...
- Tags: Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- Massachusetts finds unintended consequences in health care reform
- Massachusetts finds unintended consequences in health care reformWell, duh.The hallmark of socialism is shortages. Massachusettes socializes it's health care, and wow, shock, just like Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Oregon and Hawaii, shortages appear.lol...[i]By putting 340,000 new customers on the rolls demand for service has skyrocketed. Doctors just can’t keep up.[/i]That...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Massachusettes, health care
- Discussion threads 2008-04-07
- News to know: Seesmic and Twhirl; Vista patches en route; XP; Classmate 2
- Notable headlines: Ryan Stewart: AIR Twitter client Twhirl gets bought by Seesmic Dennis Howlett: Seesmic, Twhirl, Newsgang: whereto for RSS? Techmeme EIC podcast: SAP, Intel, Dell, XP and Google Larry Dignan: Microsoft readies Vista, Windows Server 2008 critical patches ...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Patch Management, Microsoft Windows Vista, Video, Microsoft Corp., TechMeme, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Corporate Communications, Patches, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing
- Blog posts 2008-04-04
- Are IT malpractice suits around the corner?
- Does Waste Management's lawsuit against SAP indicate the beginning of a bevy of IT malpractice suits? TechRepublic's Justin James makes that argument and it's worth noting. Earlier this week I detailed and posted Waste Management's case against SAP. Much of it revolves around promises made by SAP...
- Tags: Lawsuit, Information Technology, SAP AG, Programming, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-03
- Sprint pay incentives aim to slow cancellations
- Sprint pay incentives aim to slow cancellationssprint incentives?Sprint is using strong arm tactics on thier current customers to try and make up for their $30 billion loss. I am dropping sprint as soon as possible even though I have been a sprint user for about 18 months.This is just another...
- Tags: Sales force management, Customer relationship management (CRM), Sprint Communications, incentive, cancellation, phone
- Discussion threads 2008-03-27
- Prevention killing the health care system
- Prevention killing the health care systemPrevention costsThe one change that would have a dramatic impact in lowering health care costs would be to outlaw malpractice cases against hospitals, doctors and drug companies. As an example OBs spend 15-30K per month for insurance.Second, streamline drug development pipelines. five to ten years...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Food & Beverage, health care, health care system
- Discussion threads 2008-03-03
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