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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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- 7 things you should know about Body Area Networks (BANs)
- Sure...what a great idea. :-(I know ONE thing for sure...no one is EVER going to put one of these things in MY body.So let's just give doctors one MORE chance to screw up a medical procedure, while implanting these little sensors.More medical malpractice suits anyone? Hmmmmm?Here's a nice example of...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, pacemaker
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- 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
- GOP will present a health care bill
- Good startGood work Dana. This blog is not biased to the left (we'll see how you fare in the talkbacks though).There's of course still the question why you put politics on this IT tech site."ZDNet: Tech News, Blogs and White Papers for IT Professionals. Where Technology Means Business: ZDNet delivers...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, IT Pros, health care, No., Pelosi, GOP
- Discussion threads 2009-11-03
- A single national market for health care
- health care should wait untill we get rid of the liberals in the governmentonce the Democrats are no longer in power we could start talking about some real healthcare reform based on tax credits and tort reform.Socialist ideeas like single payer or public option are a non starter.Heaven forbid, a...
- Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, Healthcare reform, health care
- Discussion threads 2009-10-07
- A single national market for health care
- What would Republican health reform look like, asks the Christian Science Monitor. It would be a national market with a single standard for malpractice, writes Gail Russell Chaddock, with tax credits to push people into the insurance market. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Health Care, Market, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Personal Finance, Taxes, Human Resources, Financial Planning, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-10-07
- 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
- Companies to offer free foreign travel for their sick
- Wow, a great way to force our overpaid doctors to compete. Doctors should have a comfortable life, but, they do not need to earn 100x what they do in other countries.and if there are complications?If a US citizen travels abroad for a procedure and returns home, who will treat any...
- Tags: Financial Planning, insurance
- Discussion threads 2009-09-17
- When HIPAA and Twitter collide: Can you blab away your privacy rights?
- Absolutely notThe most the hospital should do is cite HIPAA and promise a private resolution. That is all they need to do in public. If they do resolve the problem to satisfaction, most people who are willing to complain about a health problem in public would acknowledge that in public....
- Tags: Regulatory compliance, HEALTHCARE, Regulations, Twitter Inc., hospital, HIPAA, patient
- Discussion threads 2009-09-15
- 'How I tweeted my way out of spinal surgery'
- Surprise, surpriseObama says that doctors provide unnecessary surgeries to boost their bottom line, and lo and behold, we suddenly get stories of people being coerced into unnecessary procedures.And, of course, we all know that anyone who tweets anything is telling us the absolute gospel truth.And, of course, if this woman...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, Obama, hospital, health care, surgeon
- Discussion threads 2009-09-15
- 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
- Cutting imaging proves a win-win-win
- Ionizing Radiation Is Very Dangerousand must be employed very, very carefully.If it's not absolutely necessary, [u]don't[/u].Anyone familiar with nuclear physics, engineering, or medicine knows that it only takes one ionizing radiation event to damage one single cell's DNA such that the cell becomes malignantly cancerous to start a life-threatening illness.Any...
- Tags: Document management, Vertical industries, win-win-win, imaging, health care, patient
- Discussion threads 2009-08-27
- Condemning what the market does worse
- Agree, but unfair comparisonI do agree with most of what you are saying, but feel compelled to take issue with the following:You said "Few deny the Obama Administration has mangled the health care debate. On my personal blog I have compared this to how the Bush Administration handled Hurricane Katrina."The...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, government, insurance
- Discussion threads 2009-08-24
- A modest proposal to fix the primary care shortage
- Talk is cheapI am in the medical field. I have been hearing for many MANY years now how we will solve the primary care shortage by paying primary care docs more and specialists less, then a big fight ensues. And IMHO the stupidity of that proposal misses the obvious: If...
- Tags: Benefits, primary care shortage, care shortage
- Discussion threads 2009-08-20
- 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
- Placing blame for the XTent failure
- Science, Research, and Data Are Not To Blamefor these rest on the scientific method. Instead, other social factors are to blame:The irresponsibility of our public media in chronically sensationalizing news for the sake of entertaining rather than informing the public;The caution practicing physicians must exercise to avoid liability in...
- Tags: comparative effectiveness, Paxil, XTent, stent
- Discussion threads 2009-08-07
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