Now what kind of a question is that? Of course industries such as social networks like Facebook will always have a demand but that’s not what I’m talking about here, but rather the need for a business to hire data scientists. Right now the move is hot and e…
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Would I used this, nope. More and more we all know there’s a trade off for apps and services and of course I’m sure this is no different as we all know United is the king at gathering data, data and more data about you, so why would this be any different? S…
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This should come as no surprise and I kind of wondered myself when this would rear it’s ugly head being the privacy advocate this blog forced me to be:) I say that as I never planned on being a privacy advocate but things happen and when you understand data …
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These innovation labs are getting to be old news and the bottom line is they want more code to quantitate their business and profits. Sure there’s always room to improve but when you see the words “ecommerce center” that’s what this is all about, making mone…
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This company just had it’s IPO and became public not too long ago and as you can read they hold data on 85% of the world’s prescriptions which means of course they sell a lot of data too. When you look at the IMS executives, very little in clinical backgro…
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This has been kicking around out there since Whistleblower lawsuits were filed. Initially Humana was the first target and between United and Humana they have the most at stake here because they have most covered by Medicare Advantage Plans. This goes back to…
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I said a while back that Apple has the money so if any tech company could kick the data sellers out, they could and it sounds like that’s the plan. I did read to where they had talked with insurance companies if that’s the case then folks will start heading …
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How many people know that Optum has a bank? They don’t offer any retail services outside of an Health Savings Account to the public but many companies offer this for people who have a high deductible health insurance policy. You can Argus Analytics Produces…
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I think all may remember Dr. Zeke Emanuel writing the famous post on the New York Times that basically said he wants to die at age 75 and further insinuated that all of us have served out our usefulness at that age. A little bit more about our healthcare po…
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If you read my blog often enough then you know I am the accidental privacy advocate around here. I have had my own issues and the last one was a company that was obviously off shore calling me on the phone about a clinical trial. Now I know the blind calls …
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With prediction tools and apps being all the rage today, their reliability and accuracy are not always there. Before the word “prediction” took over, we used to have words like “trending” and number crunches used for a lot of what we saw, but today it’s the …
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