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Running Diskeeper and V-locity on SAN connected systems
Take a look at this white paper to learn more about how you can safely defrag your SAN connected systems with the help of Diskeeper and V-Locity.
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DUI: Driving Under Influenza?
Driving with a cold could be as bad as driving drunk on four double whiskey drinks.
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Scary Technology (#1) - Tech that should irk you
Halloween is just around the corner and there's some scary technology out there. In this first of three posts, see how insidious some of this activity really is.........
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Social media privacy: Insurance companies want access to your Facebook
The first thing the insurance lawyers will do in court is to ask plaintiffs if they have Facebook accounts and demand a court order to review those accounts.
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MediConnect goes consumer by buying PassportMD
Chilmark Research has already given a thumbs-up to the deal on its blog.
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A modest proposal to transform health care
In a health care system, hospitals are warehouses. The less time you, the customer, spend in the hospital, the more money the system saves.
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Keep your genes to yourself after this weekend
Basically the new law puts your family history, including your genetic make-up, under requirements similar to those of HIPAA. This may require changes to Electronic Health Record (EHR) software,...
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Life insurance may prove difficult to get if you contract H1N1
President Obama wants to ensure that health insurance companies cannot deny you coverage if you have a pre-existing condition. He may have another challenge ahead: life insurance.
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Pharmacist pushback against insurer drugs-by-mail plan
The question may be asked whether this will kill small pharmacies, but that train left the station long ago.
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Condemning what the market does worse
Few deny the Obama Administration has mangled the health care debate. On my personal blog I have compared this to how the Bush Administration handled Hurricane Katrina. But if the result is that...
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Big money to be made in health payment processing
Let me offer a modest proposal, that insurers offer doctors a "petty cash" service through credit card processors. All charges under, say, $20 are passed to the fund and reported to the patient,...
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Does a pie crust promise count?
Insurers want their allies in Congress to refuse the Schumer compromise and to tell Democrats they either stick to the commitments industry made in December or fail to get any reform passed and...
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Industry commits to comparative effectiveness
The industry and government have joined together in believing that comparative effectiveness can be made to work at the point of care, and are committed to moving toward it.
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Will HIMSS vendors oppose their best customers?
Evidence-based care and comparative effectiveness, concepts pushed heavily by insurers as a replacement for the HMO horrors of a decade ago, are finally ready to start proving their worth. Many...
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When Health Care Law, Health Insurance Companies & Customers Don't Mix
My wife and I get our health insurance from Anthem Blue Cross & Blue Shield, here in Virginia. Because my wife is a cancer survivor our insurance rates are exorbitant. Last year, we had a...
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My comparative effectiveness story
Whoever must pay for care, we need a lot of data on which to base sound decisions.
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The two big lies in the health IT debate
The health IT components of the stimulus bill are designed to accelerate changes already underway in the marketplace . But when the buyer saves, the seller loses.
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Nursing at center of medical home concept
Portico is working to help the coaching concept make financial sense, using technology to tie insurance carriers, doctors, nurses and patients together. Evidence based healthcare is a trend whose...
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Making comparative effectiveness partisan is malpractice
America is not debating a single-payer system. America is not debating the creation of a "health technology" bureaucracy that will tell patients what medicines they can't have and what procedures...
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Insurers place first bid made in health reform game
Right now insurers can pressure hospitals into forcing that decision on families. Should government have it? Can we set a standard for it? How would you split that baby of cost vs. life?
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Something you're going to want to smack
A magic box from GreenRoad Technologies (UK) will be installed in 200 military vehicles as part of a six-month trial to determine whether it's possible to detect bad driving and then intervene to...
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