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Getting paid is key to medical success

Getting paid is key to medical successProcedure vs ConditionPlease raise your hand if you believe we will be able to move from billing at the CPT code level to billing at the ICD-9 level. While I personally believe that both systems impose an artifical taxonomy upon provider and patient, we...

Tags: Insurance, medical success, ICD-9, patient, billing

Discussion threads 2007-08-06

Additional Resources

Can hackers have a disease and be absolved from a crime? Maybe...

Aserger's has shades of grayMore than likely if he was compelled to try breaking into US systems, it was the technical challenge and machinations in his mind of what it would take. Asperger's is a form of mild autism and if you're more on the impacted side, I can readily...

Tags: INTERNET, NETWORKING, McKinnon, Asperger, defence

Discussion threads 2009-12-01

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

Canadians get a taste of American medical system with IMS Health buy

Canadian pensions may be riding on the success of an American company performing computing feats that would be incomprehensible in their own country. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: IMS Health Inc., Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Personal Finance, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-11-06

EvriChart: A Linux Success Story

Tony Maro, CIO of EvriChart, a hospital records management and archiving business, successfully migrated his company's Windows-based line of business document management extranet application and his employees' 40-odd Windows-based desktops to a 100 percent Linux-based server and desktop infrastructure. Jason Perlow interviews Tony Maro, CIO...

Tags: Desktop, Hospital, Imaging, Health Care, Server, Computer, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Document Management, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-20

The good news about WalMart

The magic of jiu jitsuYou praise what a company reviled by the left is doing. The right rises. Then you point to WalMart's support of true health reform, and pound them with it. How does this help the public option?I don't see it.So you are saying that because of some...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Benefits, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-07

News to know: Snow Leopard; YouTube; VMWorld; Google Books

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. Ryan Naraine: Snow Leopard ships with vulnerable Flash Player Sam Diaz: Report: EC considering delay of Sun-Oracle over...

Tags: Google Inc., Andrew Nusca, YouTube Inc., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Data Centers, Virtualization, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, Storage, Data Management

Blog posts 2009-09-03

Surgical decisions: How to change business executives' minds about information technology

Let's face it, without IT, there's no business. But, IT has always been viewed by business executives as a cost center, versus a strategic asset. A relatively new work published by Peter Weill and Jeanne Ross puts forth some ideas how to turn this thinking around. ...

Tags: Information Technology, Aetna Inc., Strategy, Management, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-08-04

Risk rating for fatties?

Risk rating for fatties?But where are the exceptions?My wife went on heavy steroids when she was treated for acute leukemia. That changes your shape pretty fast - guess you could call it a bloating side effect.Actually, I prefer the tax on "fat food", including sugar based drinks, to build...

Tags: Vertical industries, Financial Planning, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, insurance company, government, insurance, health care, fatty

Discussion threads 2009-07-29

Brother MFC-5890CN

Brother MFC-5890CNI am really amazed at the trash review!!!I have had this printer for several months now and I have found it a remarkable product. When I hooked it up to my brand-new Windows Vista Dell computer, it worked great out of the box! It takes up less...

Tags: Web site development, Web technology, Brother MFC-5890CN, e-mail

Discussion threads 2009-07-17

Jobs recovering from liver transplant; re-ignites debate over privacy rights

Jobs recovering from liver transplant; re-ignites debate over privacy rightsSteve alone DOES make Apple the company it isWhat would Apple be like without Steve Jobs? We don't have to guess. We already know because Apple was without Steve Jobs for many years. If Jobs hadn't returned Apple would have disappeared...

Tags: Leadership, job, Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., liver transplant, transplant

Discussion threads 2009-06-20

News to know: Apple WWDC, iPhone, Macs; Palm Pre; Google Apps; Facebook

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. Apple coverage: Ed Burnette: WWDC 2009 live Jason D. O'Grady: WWDC 09: the announcements (Updated 10x)...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Google Apps, Facebook, Larry Dignan, Apple Macintosh, Palm Inc., Andrew Nusca, Apple Inc., Sam Diaz, Cloud Computing, Pricing, Corporate Communications, Notebooks, Desktops, Marketing, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2009-06-09

Gauging the Palm Pre's success: It'll take time

Gauging the Palm Pre's success: It'll take timePlan BSince WebOS is Linux-based, it seem conceivable that, if app developers don't flock to it, Palm could extend WebOS to run Android applications as well.PAlm has the apps, especially with the support for PalmOS.Personally, I'm sold. The Pre looks like it has...

Tags: Smart phones, Handhelds, Operating systems, OK Here, Pre, Palm Inc., Palm Pre, Palm OS

Discussion threads 2009-06-05

CRM Package Boosts Tendering Capabilities for Pharmaceuticals Distributor

Pfizer Australia is a major supplier of medicines and medical products to Australia's hospitals and healthcare groups. When the company's biggest customers put major contracts up to tender, Pfizer's nine key account managers need to compile large amounts of data in order to respond competitively - pricing and discount information...

Tags: Pfizer Inc., Microsoft Corp., CRM, Pfizer Australia, Pricing, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Marketing Research, Marketing, Human Resources

Case studies 2009-06-01

Microsoft's Bing: Powerset's role, market share, brand (and other burning questions)

Microsoft's Bing: Powerset's role, market share, brand and other burning questionsit will go down with a 'Bang'If Ask.com is the model, a.k.a. spyware + worthless results, M$ should better save its money.MS decision engine, that will keep me awayway away!RE: Microsoft's Bing: Powerset's role, market share, brand (and other burning...

Tags: SEARCH, brand, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft BING, search engine, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Powerset

Discussion threads 2009-05-28

The Cheerios Kerfluffle

The Cheerios KerfluffleUltimately General Mills will winAs long as their claims are true and they can back it up and they say they can, ultimately the government cannot stop General Mills from making the claim. General Hills may have to jump through some legal hoops to do so, but the...

Tags: Federal government, Government, Vertical industries, Benefits, Dana, General Mills Inc., FDA

Discussion threads 2009-05-14

Can Open Text turn the page on Vignette's recent history?

ECM vendor Open Text announced this morning that it intends to acquire Vignette, provider of Web and transactional content management technologies. In some circles, the acquisition of Vignette has been a foregone conclusion for many months now. Vignette has been an established player for years, with an impressive customer base....

Tags: Open Text Corp., Vignette Corp., WCM, Web Technology, Content Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Enterprise Software, Software, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Stephen Powers

Blog posts 2009-05-06

Rockefeller makes support for open source explicit

Rockefeller makes support for open source explicitWhat's the difference?You state: "While introducing his bill Rockefeller did not mention Medsphere, whose software is installed at many state hospitals. Instead he focused on the Veteran Administration?s VistA system, and the NHIN-Connect system for linking medical records installed by Harris Corp., which includes...

Tags: Taxes, Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, open source, Rockefeller, tax

Discussion threads 2009-04-27

Apple beats for Q2; Best non-holiday quarter; Netbook hardware 'junky'

Apple, known for conservative financial forecasts, easily surpassed Wall Street's estimates for the second quarter, reporting net income of $1.21 billion, or $1.33 per share, on sales of $8.16 billion. Statement Wall Street had been expecting earnings of $1.08 per share on $7.9 billion in sales, according to Thomson Reuters....

Tags: Revenue, Apple iPhone, Financial, Apple Inc., Netbook, Sales Strategy, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Sales Force Management, Sales, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-04-22

Medsphere feels the wind at its back at HIMSS

Medsphere feels the wind at its back at HIMSSI might have mentionedThat I feel two of the most important challenges in HIT is to be open for all platforms from day one and to be able to keep up with changes in technology.As to the first challenge, I use a...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Handhelds, PET/CT, lab report, Medsphere, HIMSS

Discussion threads 2009-04-06