How to Help a Family or Loved One In Need CauseWish CrowdFunding (Guest Post) How to Help a Family or Loved One In Need CauseWish CrowdFunding (Guest Post)

This is a guest post from the owner of CauseWish, a crowd funding website and if you look on my right hand side you can see mine cause I hav...

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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Former Goldman Programmer Still on the Hook for Code Theft, Perhaps Is It Time to Talk About the Model He Was Writing Code For To Finally Figure Out If That Code Had “Real” Value? Former Goldman Programmer Still on the Hook for Code Theft, Perhaps Is It Time to Talk About the Model He Was Writing Code For To Finally Figure Out If That Code Had “Real” Value?

There’s been a lot of talk and especially here at this blog about the “models” that are used for software.  The Quants are at the top of the...

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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

MMRGlobal and Chinese EMR to Integrate MyMedicalRecords PHR Using HL7 Technologies MMRGlobal and Chinese EMR to Integrate MyMedicalRecords PHR Using HL7 Technologies

It sounds very similar to what is occurring here in the US and as the press release below notes the original contract was just to sell the M...

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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

FDA Approves Plan B One Step Contraceptive Without a Prescription for Women 15 Years or Older Honoring the Original Teva Application as Legal Ruling in April Opened the Door FDA Approves Plan B One Step Contraceptive Without a Prescription for Women 15 Years or Older Honoring the Original Teva Application as Legal Ruling in April Opened the Door

You may or may not remember how this one went down but HHS Secretary Sebelius decided to step in here and over rule the FDA but then a judge...

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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Jawbone Buys BodyMedia. Launches New “Up App” Platform–Partnerships Allow for More of Your Data and Profiles To Be Sold As Data Selling Epidemic Continues to Grow Jawbone Buys BodyMedia. Launches New “Up App” Platform–Partnerships Allow for More of Your Data and Profiles To Be Sold As Data Selling Epidemic Continues to Grow

All of these tracking devices are nice and offer a lot of information.  I look at the practical side here from a couple views.  I see people...

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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Kcentra Approved by the FDA to Reverse the Effects of Warfarin Kcentra Approved by the FDA to Reverse the Effects of Warfarin

It is pretty common knowledge that Warfarin can be difficult to regulate and if the blood gets too thin, we now have an antidote.  There are...

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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Bayer Buys Conceptus Contraception Device Company for Around a Billion Bayer Buys Conceptus Contraception Device Company for Around a Billion

You may or may not have heard of the product but it is a device that functions like having one’s tubes tied to prevent an egg from traveling...

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Monday, April 29, 2013

3D Modeling Glasses Software Company, Patent Battle Going Up Against Big Corporation Health Insurance Company WellPoint Company–Subsidiary Watch 3D Modeling Glasses Software Company, Patent Battle Going Up Against Big Corporation Health Insurance Company WellPoint Company–Subsidiary Watch

Here’s one that got by me and I don’t catch them all but try to advice when I find perhaps less notable subsidiaries of health insurance com...

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Monday, April 29, 2013

Study on How “Jail Breaker” Cancer Cells Escape Tumors and Spread Through the Body Study on How “Jail Breaker” Cancer Cells Escape Tumors and Spread Through the Body

This study had over 100 investigators from 20 institutions working on it so it’s large enough number to substantiate some new findings when ...

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Sunday, April 28, 2013

TechShop–High End Machinery Working With Software Technologies to Create Tangible Products TechShop–High End Machinery Working With Software Technologies to Create Tangible Products

This is great and they are making “tangible” products using technology and creating new ones.  The owner used to be in software development...

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Sunday, April 28, 2013

Angel of Death–Serial Killer Nurse– Technology Audit Records Helped Break the Case–Hospital Lied or Didn’t Know How Long Records Were Kept 60 Minute Video Angel of Death–Serial Killer Nurse– Technology Audit Records Helped Break the Case–Hospital Lied or Didn’t Know How Long Records Were Kept 60 Minute Video

The story here is about the nurse that was using medications to kill patients in several hospitals.  Somerset hospital was where he was fin...

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Sunday, April 28, 2013

Data Floating Around the Web and You Don’t Know How It Got There?  Time to License and Excise Tax Data Sellers–Identify “Flawed Data” Epidemic At The Root of the Problem Data Floating Around the Web and You Don’t Know How It Got There? Time to License and Excise Tax Data Sellers–Identify “Flawed Data” Epidemic At The Root of the Problem

If you saw the news in the New York time and read here often enough then you know what the deal is on data selling, privacy and profits.  I ...

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Sunday, April 28, 2013

GeneWatch in the UK Warning of the Dangers and Profiteering With Linking DNA To Medical Records With Building Risk Algorithms For Profit–Personalized Marketing Without Consent GeneWatch in the UK Warning of the Dangers and Profiteering With Linking DNA To Medical Records With Building Risk Algorithms For Profit–Personalized Marketing Without Consent

We know that marketing today is on steroids and myself the no call list is even becoming a farce and doesn’t work well anymore.  The calls k...

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Friday, April 26, 2013

Cook Recalls Zilver PTX Drug Eluting Stent Due to Potential Delivery System Separation Prompts Cook Recalls Zilver PTX Drug Eluting Stent Due to Potential Delivery System Separation Prompts

I covered the Cook Zilver Stent quite a bit here as it’s one that goes in the leg to help fight PAD.  The recall is for systems that have no...

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Friday, April 26, 2013

Richard Cordray, Fail With Understanding Flawed Models and Algorithms -Big Case of“Algo Duping”With Big Data-Save Time, Hire Quants Who Know How Consumer Financial Models Are Built and Function…Geez Richard Cordray, Fail With Understanding Flawed Models and Algorithms -Big Case of“Algo Duping”With Big Data-Save Time, Hire Quants Who Know How Consumer Financial Models Are Built and Function…Geez

He starting to remind me of Blue Cross and their data mining to find out if their insured were buying clothes a size larger .  Anyway in rea...

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Thursday, April 25, 2013

UPS Acquires European Pharmaceutical Logistics Company CEMELOG Moving Closer to Pharmacy Benefit Management Business Models UPS Acquires European Pharmaceutical Logistics Company CEMELOG Moving Closer to Pharmacy Benefit Management Business Models

UPS is getting closer to being a Pharmacy Benefit Manager or Tactical Partner as when you look at how they are filling orders from medical d...

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Thursday, April 25, 2013
 
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