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POPSHealthComp Data Systems' Services The billing systems used in the healthcare industry these days are woefully ineffective. HealthComp Data Systems exists to repair the holes in those billing systems.
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POPSHarvard study: Computers don't save hospitals money More; Himmelstein said that only a handful of hospitals and clinics realized even modest savings and increased efficiency -- and those hospitals custom-built their systems after computer system architects conducted months of earch. He pointed to Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Latter Day Saints Hospital in Salt Lake City and Regenstrief Institute in Indianapolis as facilities with some success in deploying efficient e-health systems. That's because they were intuitive and aimed at clinicians, not administrators. Programmers of the successful systems told Himmelstein that they didn't write manuals or offer training. "If you need a manual, then the system doesn't work. If you need training, the system doesn't work," he said.
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POPSMedisoft Medical Billing Software from Computerized Business Systems Medisoft medical billing software is designed for doctors, dentists, medical billing services and other healthcare professionals who wish to send electronic claims or paper claims. Please click on one of the links below to find out more about medical billing software or starting a medical billing service.
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POPSRepost: PCAST H1N1: An Improbable Scenario Requiring More Stringent Non-Medical Measures I had to repost this in response to the strange declaration of a National Emergency. Thanks to the so-called National Response Framework, the Constitution has essentially been suspended. So something nasty is probably about to happen not too far along here in the United States of America. In which time, I pray you will all remember by subtle, underlying message regarding the Kingdom of God which trumps, reigns, and is sovereign over this - the devil's kingdom. It also shall preserve it's residents and those who acknowledge Its sovereignty. This is learned through the grace of God which is the love of all of man where he cares for none to perish, but to come to righteousness through belief in and faithfulness in His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, your savior, and my savior. For his promise is true. Amen. With much love, your brother in Christ - David Batchelder.
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POPSHealth Sciences College The Master of Science in Health Services Management provides students with an advanced understanding of contemporary business practices.
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POPSMore American Health Insurance Insanity And people are still trying to get people to believe that commercial health insurance is better than government healthcare? Utter insanity. In the victim's native Philippines, she wouldn't have to deal with insanity like this. America, just get over your irrational phobia of socialized healthcare, and get universal healthcare already. The rest of the industrialized world has already realized that a healthcare system based on commercial healthcare is criminal unfair, and utterly flawed in its basic concept. The rest of the industrialized world having healthcare systems that outrank America's dismal 37th place rating is another clue that only lunatics don't want socialized medicine.
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POPS Is Britain's Health-Care System Really That Bad? How does NHS health care compare with U.S. health care? Like most developed countries, Britain ranks above the U.S. in most health measurements. Its citizens have a longer life expectancy and lower infant mortality, and the country has more acute-care hospital beds per capita and fewer deaths related to surgical or medical mishaps. Britain achieves these results while spending proportionally less on health care than the U.S. — about $2,500 per person in Britain, compared with $6,000 in the U.S. For these reasons, the World Health Organization (WHO) ranked Britain 18th in a global league table of health-care systems (the U.S. was ranked 37th). However, there are measures by which the U.S. outperforms Britain: for instance, the U.S. has lower cancer mortality rates.
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POPSTo Err is Human: Institute of Medicine report on reducing preventable medical errors Sadly, it's now 10 years after its release, and most of its recommendations have not been heeded. More: To Err Is Human asserts that the problem is not bad people in health care--it is that good people are working in bad systems that need to be made safer. Comprehensive and straightforward, this book offers a clear prescription for raising the level of patient safety in American health care. It also explains how patients themselves can influence the quality of care that they receive once they check into the hospital. This book will be vitally important to federal, state, and local health policy makers and regulators, health professional licensing officials, hospital administrators, medical educators and students, health caregivers, health journalists, patient advocates--as well as patients themselves.
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POPSCompulsarary Insurance Won't Work and they get caught again. More fines they can’t afford, just like the insurance they couldn’t afford in the first place, and then they go to jail for failing to pay the fines. Now the government gets to provide their room and board and when they get out of jail they no longer have a job. Before long, the state legislatures start cranking out new bills and regulations aimed at coercing more people to buy insurance, forcing the insurance companies to sell insurance to people they don’t want to sell to, increasing penalties for not having insurance, and setting up multi-million dollar systems to track who has insurance and who doesn’t. Finally, the state gets into the insurance business to sell insurance to people who the insurance companies won’t or can’t afford to insure — call it a public plan to compete against greedy private insurers. .
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POPSEPA Fails to Inform Public About Weed-Killer in Drinking Water Ah hell, let’s add the EPA to the list of evil corporations as well. Atrazine has become an issue of concern for environmentalists and consumer groups as the use of the herbicide has soared in the United States over the past few decades. "It is the responsibility of the EPA and Syngenta to inform the public of accurate levels of atrazine in their drinking water," said Jason Rohr, a specialist in ecotoxicology at the University of South Florida who studies the effects of atrazine in animals, and who served on the EPA's atrazine panel this past spring. No wonder Americans are getting fed up with what our government is doing and not doing. They are allowing corporations to poison us by allowing them to escape responsibility, they are allowing the EPA to not warn us of chemical poisoning. What is next? A healthcare system designed to cover up the causes of illnesses created by these ‘evil corporations’?
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POPSU.S. Cancer Care Is Number One Early Diagnosis. It is often claimed that people have better access to preventive screenings in universal health care systems. But despite the large number of uninsured, cancer patients in the United States are most likely to be screened regularly, and once diagnosed, have the fastest access to treatment. For example, a Commonwealth Fund report showed that women in the United States were more likely to get a PAP test for cervical cancer every two years than women in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Great Britain, where health insurance is guaranteed by the government. In the United States, 85 percent of women aged 25 to 64 years have regular PAP smears, compared with 58 percent in Great Britain. The same is true for mammograms; in the United States, 84 percent of women aged 50 to 64 years get them regularly " a higher percentage than in Australia, Canada or New Zealand, and far higher than the 63 percent of British women.
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POPSThe Truth About Canadian Healthcare If you're in a nation with universal healthcare, I urge you to go to the source site and sign the petition to the US media. Don't let the opponents of Healthcare Reform paint a deceitful picture of Universal Healthcare. Sign the petition, and leave a comment about just what Universal Healthcare means to you and how shameful American Healthcare is.
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POPSWhat do I want in a health care system? More (the footnotes):† Barring sudden death at a young age, we are all, at best, currently healthy rather than healthy. ‡ I am deeply ashamed of how many of my fellow countrymen have a problem with this, even if the risk pool is wide enough to make it a relatively low amount of subsidy per person. It also ignores the realities of childhood poverty and contagious disease, both of which have impacts that cross the "I've got mine" line.
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POPSLawrence O'Donnell Exposes GOP Congressman's Hypocrisy On Government Health Care (VIDEO) Again, Culberson refused to give a straight answer and complained about O'Donnell's persistence. O'Donnell replied: "I don't want you to spin your time away here." Culberson later admitted that he would have voted for Social Security in 1935 and "probably" would have voted for Medicare in 1965. An exasperated O'Donnell asked the Congressman: "You know that Medicare is a completely government-run health care system and yet you're saying you would have voted for it." Culberson's response: "Yes"
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POPSDon't confuse Obama Care with our homegrown healthcare reform
So why Grand Junction? Because Grand Junction has one of the most cost-effective and high-quality health-care systems in the country. So effective, in fact, that it was recently featured in The New Yorker (along with the Mayo Clinic) as an example of health care reform that works. As The New Yorker piece explains, in Grand Junction, doctors “agreed to meet regularly on small peer-review committees to go over their patient charts together. They focused on rooting out problems like poor prevention practices, unnecessary back operations and unusual hospital-complication rates. Problems went down. Quality went up.” The article goes on to talk about how the physicians cooperated with Rocky Mountain Health Plans to create a “communitywide electronic-record system that shared office notes, test results, and hospital data for patients across the area.” And that is likely why the president is coming to Grand Junction — to tell America that Mesa County makes the case for a single-payer
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POPSObama's Healthcare Horror ~ Camille Paglia except in five competing, fluctuating drafts, makes Washington seem like Cloud Cuckoo Land. You can keep your doctor; you can keep your insurance, if you're happy with it, Obama keeps assuring us in soothing, lullaby tones. Oh, really? And what if my doctor is not the one appointed by the new government medical boards for ruling on my access to tests and specialists? And what if my insurance company goes belly up because of undercutting by its government-bankrolled competitor? Face it: Virtually all nationalized health systems, neither nourished nor updated by profit-driven private investment, eventually lead to rationing. I just don't get it. Why the insane rush to pass a bill, any bill, in three weeks? And why such an abject failure by the Obama administration to present the issues to the public in a rational, detailed, informational way? The U.S. is gigantic; many of our states are bigger than whole European nations.
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POPSA preliminary debunking of the Hoover Digest claims about US healthcare You may have seen or seen reference to an article in the Hoover Digest that claims that "Despite serious challenges, such as escalating costs and care for the uninsured, the U.S. health care system compares favorably to those in other developed countries." Here's a preliminary debunking of some of its claims. The † footnote marker in the original points to the following note: † Is health care another piece of "defense of marriage?"
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POPSAnother Trillion? The CBO May Have Underestimated the Cost of Health Reform
After the director of the CBO testified on July 16 that none of the health-reform bills in the House or Senate would reduce the rate of increase in federal spending on health care, congressional efforts fell into disarray. Many policymakers began searching for a way to get costs below the CBO’s frightening estimate of $1.1 trillion over ten years. Others attacked the CBO, calling its estimates irresponsible. The CBO is actually being kind to the would-be reformers. Its analysis likely understates"by at least $1 trillion"the true costs of expanding health coverage as current Democratic legislation contemplates. Over the last few months, my colleagues and I at the consulting firm Health Systems Innovations have provided cost estimates of health-care reform to both Republican and Democratic members of Congress, and we’ve posted these estimates on our website as well. We believe that the Democratic bills currently under consideration in the House and Senate would cost . . .
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POPSSenior Citizens Left Off Government's Swine-Flu Vaccination Priority List What’s missing? Is this a bureaucratic snafu caused by a transcription error or a deliberate attempt to enforce the Obama’s new healthcare initiative where senior citizens must be re-prioritized because “best practices” indicate that any treatment of older Americans is likely to be less effective than the treatment of other segments of the population? One wonders how a politically-managed healthcare system might work … You can receive care if: * You are a current or former elected official * You are a current or former government employee * You are a member of a union * You are wealthy * You are politically connected * You are a lobbyist * You are a friend of a politician or high-ranking government bureaucrat * You promise to vote with the party in power. Well you get the idea.
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