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- Canada not the solution either
- Canada not the solution eitherA donkey is a horse designed by a committee ...I work in healthcare reimbursement in the U.S. The bottom line is that any multi-payor system will have all sorts of problems. Payors spend huge amounts of time and money trying to avoid their obligations and...
- Tags: Research & Development, Government, Vertical industries, donkey, Fraser Institute, Harper, payor
- Discussion threads 2008-12-01
- Is simpler medical billing possible?
- Is simpler medical billing possible?It's never gonna changeI work at a lawfirm that helps hospitals deal with accounts improperly paid by insurance companies, self-funded employer health plans, etc. I formerly worked at a lawfirm that did lawsuits against patients for unpaid accounts.Simply put, it's never gonna change. Every time one...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Insurance, NETWORKING, payor, patient, medical billing, network
- Discussion threads 2007-08-08
- Ballmer: Linux "Infringes our intellectual property"
- Ballmer: Linux "Infringes our intellectual property""Infringes our intellectual property"does it have anything to do with FAT or NTFS? in that case, i'll be very happy to recompile my kernel without the bloat...What property?As mentioned above, if its just the FAT and NTFS stuff, then that means dang near every other...
- Tags: payor, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, Linux, intellectual property, Bullmer, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-11-17
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- Should doctors go on strike?
- Should doctors go on strike?Big government is the cause... of crazy medical expense. We need less regulation so there's less room for the insurance company and lawyer manipulation that jacks the medical cost. Obama's more government involvement is the wrong solution.No, life, liberty and the pursuit of happinessare fundamental human...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, Medical Care, Obama, Big Government, health care, medical care, HIPPA
- Discussion threads 2009-07-09
- Obama military deference threatens health reform
- Obama military deference threatens health reformWhen you see the examplesthe VA, Medicare, MedicaidDoes anybody believe the government can manage universal health care?Oh please.... we implemented an EHR system that uses both.. in 6 months.They use MySQL backend, web standards for communication and some closed source for a front end.They are...
- Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, health care, Medicare, government
- Discussion threads 2009-06-11
- ObamaCare opponents scramble to build a winning coalition
- ObamaCare opponents scramble to build a winning coalitionObamaCare sneaks a foot in the doorExisting insurance companies and health care providers worry about the government plan because it is the pre-ordained winner on the path to single payer, not because a government plan would be inherently superior.Any Democrat worth their credentials...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Healthcare reform, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, game plan, health care, single payer, ObamaCare, ObamaCare opponent
- Discussion threads 2009-05-12
- Why health reform remains possible
- Why health reform remains possibleFrank LuntzThis speaks volumeshttp://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2009051907/secret-right-wing-strategy-health-care-exposedPDF - http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/frank-luntz-the-language-of-healthcare-20091.pdfWhat socialized healthcare.....Nothing is free, and when you get through socializing the entire US economic system into a Government ran quagmire with Trillions of dollars of debt with an endless array of red tape.Wake me up when this nightmare is over...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care
- Discussion threads 2009-05-08
- 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
- Debating Forrester Research: Service providers and failure
- Debating Forrester Research: Service providers and failureEvasionHow could you let me do that?!It's the job of the customer to assure that the hired company does its work well because the hired company should be expected to do its job badly.Quoting the quote:Project failure is rarely the fault of your IT...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Forrester Research Inc., hired company, job
- Discussion threads 2009-01-20
- Insurers place first bid made in health reform game
- Insurers place first bid made in health reform gameTaking the easier questions.Sometimes Who shall live? and Who shall die? are policy questions subject to cost benefit analyses. You're right. And some day those decisions may be made by the equivalent of a clemency board for death sentences. ...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, game, insurance company, health care, insurance, community rating, healthy people
- Discussion threads 2008-11-21
- Free the Obama Blackberry
- Free the Obama BlackberryExecutive recordsDana said: "For too many in the government and media, the main lesson of Watergate seems to have been don’t record anything. If they can’t get proof you can be above the law." I agree the "don't record anything" attitude is not working in practice....
- Tags: Government, author obviously, No. People, Obama, Obama Blackberry
- Discussion threads 2008-11-16
- Is Linux really worth $10.8 billion?
- Is Linux really worth $10.8 billion?View Code"Makes you wonder what Windows is worth, but McPherson can't find out."I haven't seen this done with proprietary software because you can't download the code." Another advantage of code visibility is value visibility."FYI, you can request to view the Windows and other MS applications...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, IS LINUX, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-23
- Curing the primary care shortage
- Curing the primary care shortageBelling the catNow the trick is to persuade insurance companies to do that. Possibly you have some economic arguments you could make.Of course, they could also act to artificially inflate the supply by offering medical school scholarships to people who commit to general practice for...
- Tags: Insurance, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, primary care shortage, care shortage, insurance company, compensation
- Discussion threads 2008-09-10
- Deja vu all over again on health insurance
- Deja vu all over again on health insuranceNothing's gonna happenThe same thing will happen that happens every time they talk about "health care reform". They'll make minor changes that have almost no effect and move on. The great "reforms" of the past have consisted of allowing prior healthcare...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, Benefits, Insurance, Nothing, health care, Deja Vu, health insurance
- Discussion threads 2008-05-01
- Maximizing Revenues in Troubled Times: Proven Methods of Extracting Water From a Stone
- In the current health care environment, everyone is facing decreased payor reimbursements as the market is generally at Medicare or some comparable rate based on that governmental agency. Everyone is also seeing increased payor claim edits and controls as well as more complicated payment and authorization processing. This has led...
- Tags: Revenue, Billing, Health Care, Kaulkin Ginsberg, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Operational Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Finance
- White papers 2008-04-17
- ICD-10: Turning Regulatory Compliance Into Strategic Advantage - Are U.S. Health Plans and Providers Ready for ICD-10 Adoption?
- As if existing IT investments weren't a large enough strain on provider and payor budgets, the U.S. health care industry is facing a new challenge: ICD-10 (International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Version 10) implementation. In 2011, per the mandate of Senate Bill 628, the United States...
- Tags: Deloitte LLP, Health Care, Regulatory Compliance, U.S. ICD-10 Adoption, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
- White papers 2008-02-04
- Will comparative effectiveness cut medical market?
- Will comparative effectiveness cut medical market?Is that really two tier?Any medical intervention that doesn't offer verifiable long-term improvements isn't good medicine. It might be personally preferable, along the lines of some cosmetic surgery, but not "medicine" in the third-party payor sense.This isn't an academic question to me right now:...
- Tags: ROI/TCO, Insurance, hip-length cast, manual traction, titanium rod, rod, cast
- Discussion threads 2008-01-17
- The pay-off for hospital automation is decision support
- The pay-off for hospital automation is decision supportThe real breakthroughwill of course be when the dosing is checked against medications permitted by the insurer. Ultimately the objective is to put the payor in real-time control of treatment.Data to use-Or dosages compared with the genetic makeup of the patient...Putting the...
- Tags: Data mining, Tools & Techniques, Databases, pay-off, decision support, hospital automation
- Discussion threads 2007-10-11
- Supreme Court won't hear Microsoft appeal
- Supreme Court won't hear Microsoft appealArgh ; same meal deal as UC BerkeleyNuisance law suits like those Microsoft continues to bring to the highest levels should get the legals that support them disbarred. Lets make certain those legals know what happened to their counter parts at HP. When things are...
- Tags: Neukom, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-11-27
- Gloves come off in Symantec, Microsoft dispute
- Gloves come off in Symantec, Microsoft disputeMessage has been deleted.Symantec and Microsoftmaking themselves irrelevant by their own coding each day. We'll be leaving Symantec for Sophos later this month after years of up and down performance by the one-time ok or better than McAfee at the time antivirus/security leader....
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), SECURITY, Vista-Office, Symantec Corp., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2006-08-25
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