Archive for December, 2008
Friday, December 19th, 2008
This video is highly recommended for a quick information uptake of insurance choices as presented by their acronyms. They are easily explained in a delightfully entertaining way. Compliments to Humana for this short video that gets the job done in under 3 minutes. See for yourself at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouOrwGMBp8c.
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Thursday, December 18th, 2008
This month Cleveland Clinic emphasized their commitment to transparency of information by augmenting their physician directory with respective associations with company listed conveinently within the physician's briefing page. Associations including equity positions, royalty rights, speaking and consulting fees, if applicable, are viewable alongside the other pertinent information a prospective patient would ...
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Thursday, December 18th, 2008
Recently, Google has started providing the federal government with information about Internet searches regarding influenza and pneumonia. The presumption is that the user may be concerned about a possible infection. That is a crude method of trying to tract infectious outbreaks, or epidemiology. True epidemiology is conducted by capturing real ...
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Monday, December 1st, 2008
Washington is now brewing for a debate about new health care regulations (a.k.a. "reform"). In one camp, we have the Senator Wyden sponsored Healthy Americans Act (HAA), along with 14 other senators. Together they sent a letter to President-elect Obama promoting the HAA and pushing their agenda for mandatory health ...
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