Heck Acxiom and LexisNexis will do anything to make a buck and just make our lives miserable. So now it sounds like they have hospitals convinced they need this data as well. It’s bad enough with insurers for goodness sakes with all their data analytics and…
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This is a new initiative from Medicare and if you thought coding was complex now, wait until this kicks in. Of course we all want to save money and provide better care and try to get away from fee for service and it’s tough to create a new model, especially…
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This kind of funny as the chief medical officer says he’s not real sure about it:) We we know what happened with that Master Card Steroid Marketing Plan , here’s one more that was sold and duped. What they are worried about here is the fact that they need t…
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One older article seemed to reflect something about a “boiler room” remodel but those are usually scheduled and maybe something unexpected popped up in that area as the note does reference the hospital wants to be a “safe” facility. In addition the hospital…
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First clue here when a site has a drop down for you to pick out an STI status (and I guess it would have a choice for none too) leave it blank for the discreet data choice. According to this article the profiles were shared with other dating sites the compan…
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Ok so we are looking at money streams once again, same thing we always talk about with electronic transactions and now it appears from reading this article that physician are being marketed to use Virtual Credit Cards to be reimbursed. The rub here is the fe…
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You may or may not be aware of what’s going on with Big Data here but in China this is the deal, a Citizen Score that will determine everyone’s worth by using all sources of data available. So this is happening only in China? Wrong..we have Excess Scoring fo…
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Population Health is part of an Accountable Care Organization and when used properly without folks going off the cliff analytics it can work well. We don’t see enough of this out there. Also below is a video to where the Doctor’s group runs the ACO and not …
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“We Are Not Ready For Healthcare Data Mining” - Guest Post
Juni 27, 2014
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Today, here’s guest post from Cathy O’Neil at the blog “Mathbabe” with many of the same references you have heard from me of late relative to medical data. You can also view video #3 in the footer of my blog to listen to a lecture she gave a while back. I…
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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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Of course this will be appealed and you know who’s behind this, it’s the lobbyists for insurance companies as they know how to play the game from every angle as they have very sophisticated math quants they hire to model all of this. It’s been going on for y…
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Here’s a surgeon that’s in the know with data brokers. He’s tuned in and knows how data can be used against you. He talks how the data selling impacts reporting to the type of care patients get. If you read here often enough, you hear a lot about privacy…
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