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Can your insurance force you out of the country?

Can your insurance force you out of the country?Will they include airfare and a guarantee?Most people have found good doctors they have a rapport with. If computer systems can't be dealt with by words printed on a cue card, human medicine is going to be a thousandfold more complex...

Tags: Government, Financial Planning, Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, insurance, Socialized Medicine

Discussion threads 2008-07-02

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

Additional Resources

Is probiotics a scam?

Some of the claims made by probiotics advocates remind me of the patent medicine craze of the 19th century. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Health Care, Bacteria, Probiotics, Food & Beverage, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-08-28

Apple iPhone ad banned

Apple iPhone ad bannedBetter than the alternativesMy iPhone works as promised.My Macs are more reliable than my Windows boxes.In short, there are better options.Why anyone would buy anything from Apple...is beyond me. Especially the iPhone. It doesn't work as promised in sooooo many ways.i guess every iphone user is mad...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, iphone, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., advertisement, cellular company, phone, Internet

Discussion threads 2008-08-27

Tech giants may face dollar daze

Tech giants may face dollar dazeMerchants of chaos strike againand they can't resist putting a negative spin on ANY news, even items that are contradictory. So, when the dollar declines, it's bad. When the dollar stops declining, it's bad.Journalists must be some amazingly depressive people to be around.The most important...

Tags: Operational accounting, Tech Giants

Discussion threads 2008-08-26

Canada, U.S. two ships passing in the ideological night

Canada, U.S. two ships passing in the ideological night.....Our arrogance is our own demise. It's that simple. ]:)We already have a crippled two-level systemIt's called Medicare/Medicaid.And once again the author shows his ignorance of economics. In a truly private, competitive health care system, if universal electronic records provided increased profits,...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, Strategy, health care, ideology, ideological night, enormous innovation, surcharge, innovation

Discussion threads 2008-08-25

News to know: RIP enterprise data center; Red Hat breach; Google

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Dion Hinchcliffe: Are we ready to declare the "time of death" for the enterprise data center? Joe McKendrick: Is SOA an elixir or real fix for 'medieval'...

Tags: Google Inc., Red Hat Inc., Palm Inc., Video, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Corporate Communications, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Open Source, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-25

I'm a Wii Fit believer

I really thought Wii Fit was a gimmick. And those phys ed classes that used Dance Dance Revolution to get sedentary teenagers jumping around? Talk about a waste of taxpayer money. Then my kids bought Wii Fit this weekend and I was absolutely, instantly impressed. ...

Tags: Nintendo Wii, Wii Fit, Games, Operational Planning, Personal Technology, Business Operations, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-08-24

The next REvolution in medicine is using the cluster

What this will do, over time, is turbocharge the search for cures, quickly winnowing the search for useful compounds based on their chemical structure and properties by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Compound, Productivity, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-08-22

Will the EMR movement become a political divide

Will the EMR movement become a political divideFYI: Its now EHR, not EMR...the change is to include dental, pyschological and other healthcare services.Electronic Health Records.We are in the middle of deployment strategy planning. The cost of deploying equipment and personell to get this up and running is staggering. ...

Tags: Vertical industries, E-health, HEALTHCARE, Practical Reality, EMR, EMR movement, political divide, divide, government

Discussion threads 2008-08-22

Video: Five ethical dilemmas IT leaders must confront

Professions such as law and medicine have long-established ethical guidelines to govern behavior. But in the IT field there isn't always a consensus about what's right. This episode of Sanity Savers for IT executives highlights five of the ethical concerns that IT leaders must confront. See Jason Hiner's Sanity Savers...

Tags: Information Technology, Leader, Video, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-22

79 million adults can't pay medical bills

79 million adults can't pay medical billsReaganomics..it's the cure.Look, cut taxes to the wealthy. Let 5% get as much as they can.A rising tide floats all boats. Wait, economic data says that's not true...but, but we've been believing it so far.So what if the majority of Americans...

Tags: Vertical industries, Taxes, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, Free trade, Insurance, health care, tax, government

Discussion threads 2008-08-21

Get your kids moving

The American College of Sports Medicine says kids who run around during the day don't just avoid obesity, and bad habits for a lifetime. They also learn better. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Gym, Teacher, Kid, Construction, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-08-20

IDF Opening Keynote: Are you listening, Washington?

IDF Opening Keynote: Are you listening, Washington?PURE BS!Look, I KNOW several people with advanced degrees in the sciences and math. Guess what? They have been laid off and replaced with offshoring and H1-B workers.Tech companies like Intel want to point the finger? Fine, hand them a mirror...We...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, job, Barrett, education, IT IS

Discussion threads 2008-08-19

I am I, GoogQuixote, the lord of free wireless

I am I, GoogQuixote, the lord of free wirelessStart your own business, thenThis analyst has the [i]cable companies[/i] on the losing end.http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2008/07/21/time-warner-cable-pali-downgrades-on-vz-fios-fears/Plus why do you love the Google monopoly, but dislike the phone "monopoly" ;) (even though it has been pointed out to you that there are many, many, many,...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Google Inc., GoogQuixote, wireless, phone

Discussion threads 2008-08-19

Intel's health challenge

Intel's health challengeWhy not employ this tech with employees?Intel has some 87,000 employees it can work with to opt in with this. Why not do this? I am sure they can get several other large Fortune 500's to get int the act to create a critical mass of...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Intel Corp., health challenge, health care

Discussion threads 2008-08-14

Linus Pauling's revenge

Linus Pauling's revengeMatter of degreeI think there's a fair amount of evidence that Vitamin C does a lot more than prevent scurvy and that at least some of Dr. Pauling's claims are true. I think that reasonable people can disagree as to whether all of the claims made by...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Blogging, Linus Pauling, health care, revenge

Discussion threads 2008-08-08

Do 4 in 5 of us want real health care reform?

Do 4 in 5 of us want real health care reform?Universal not a good idea . . .Universal health care is not that good of an idea - the taxes can really kill an economy, and there's no guarantee the quality will be any better.We simply need a better idea.Remember...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Universal Health Care, health care, insurance

Discussion threads 2008-08-08

Can global competition bring health care quality?

Can global competition bring health care quality?Medicine is best done up close and personal...and it's bad enough that patients in rural areas often have to go to distant cities without our sending people to foreign countries.We need a much more competitive system, but that's best done locally.Globalization has nothing to...

Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, health care, hospital, patient

Discussion threads 2008-08-07

Is it time for concierge emergency medicine?

Is it time for concierge emergency medicine?No way!How would such a facility attract "the best and the brightest" medical people? Such people want to be actively involved in treating patients because they are motivated by the challenge. Just having the latest technology is nowhere near enough. Such...

Tags: Insurance, Financial Planning, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, payroll solutions, emergency medicine

Discussion threads 2008-08-07