He couldn’t afford going to the hospital either according to this 
article as they did find out about him and it was still off limits with insurance even as the basic insurance only covers about half the cost and then other insurance or the patient has to pay the other half..sound like the same expense issues we have here. In addition the nearest hospital is too far away and over crowded for him to be cared for there. His money ran out after 6 years to be cared for at the hospital The poorest in China struggle for pay medical bills for serious conditions. At the link at the bottom you can read the entire article and see more pictures as it appears his entire set up is in his bathroom. He makes his own solutions and the cost for him with his homemade machine is only 12 percent of what he would pay at the hospital. I sure hope things don’t get to this point here with healthcare. BD
Three times a week, Hu Songwen sits on a small toilet in his home in a rural east China town and fires up his homemade dialysis machine.
Hu, who suffers from kidney disease, made it from kitchen utensils and old medical instruments after he could no long afford hospital fees.
He was a college student when he was diagnosed in 1993 with kidney disease, which means waste products cannot be removed from his blood.
He underwent dialysis treatment in hospital but ran out of savings after six years. His solution was to create his own machine to slash his costs.
'The cost for each home treatment is only 60 yuan (£6), which is 12 per cent of the hospital charge for dialysis,' Hu said.
Hu makes the dialysis fluid by mixing potassium chloride, sodium chloride and sodium hydrogen carbonate (bicarbonate) into purified water.
For the treatment, he inserts two tubes into his arm, which are connected to his dialysis machine. The blood is pumped out of his arm through one of the tubes, is filtered and then returned to his body via the other tube
Hu's kidney disease means he has dangerously high levels of the minerals potassium and sodium in his blood. So he created a dialysis solution that has similar levels of potassium and sodium to healthy human blood.
When the blood and dialysis fluid go through the machine, these excess minerals are encouraged to go from his blood and through the membrane to the fluid. This removes the waste products from his blood - and the fluid is later thrown away.
This spontaneous movement of particles from a high to a low concentration through a membrane is known as diffusion.
The 'clean' blood is then pumped back into his body.
Although a Communist country, China does not have a cradle-to-grave free-at-the-point of use healthcare system.
Instead around half of the population buy basic medical insurance which covers for half the costs of their healthcare. The remainder is paid either by patients or their health insurer.
However, this leaves the poorest in China struggling to meet medical bills for serious conditions.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2266412/Chinese-man-kept-alive-13-years-HOMEMADE-dialysis-machine.html
sides, first from the short payments and secondly from other companies like Aetna and Health Net for another licensing the use of the customary fees and charge software. This is the AMA class action lawsuit that finally settled as United settled their own first and there’s most lawsuits out there floating around over this as well with tentacles everywhere as surgical centers and more filed their own cases. Here’s the back link on the Aetna settlement and it certainly says one thing today, get to know and see your algorithms. You have to admit the Ingenix algorithms had some profit making algos that ran for many years but of course it hurt the doctors, hospitals and consumers with flawed data. 
out of network payments and 
of contract change so much some have a hard time figuring out exactly what they do want as more roll out pay for performance efforts substantiating the myth that this will save huge amount of money, small amounts possibly but not huge and of course insurers with their Health IT interests want to make sure their software for hospitals and doctors meets the current certification standards too through the government ONC office division of HHS. . Again I think Aetna is playing catch up here to United as well as they have 3 that I can think of, EHR systems they sell. BD 
on the Colbert Report a couple times. All the Gates Foundation discussions revolve mostly around healthcare and education. Bill Gates talks about polio and the results seen on eradicating the disease. Colbert asks why are you helping other countries instead of the US and Gates explains the focus in the US is education. Polio was down to 250 cases in the world last year and the next report will say zero. Bill Gates says passion is ahead of data but it is part of the passion. 
life styles. This should make many feel good and I have said for quite a while that the messages sent even to making people feel like evil twins has been horrible. I am not saying disregard your health at all here either as we do need to listen to our bodies as well as follow some basic common sense with seeing a doctor when we should. With the onset of big data there’s this big rush to get all the data we can get our hands on as we might be missing something. 
a method to lose it. Some how the folks that want to make a buck come out with these reports that say we can save trillions and billions and it’s a farce. There are savings with technology too that can be realized but nobody including me knows what new disruption will appear in healthcare tomorrow, but there will be one, that I know:) As I have always said education is the key and this crazy merry go round with insurers wanting immediate behavior change or the US financial ship is going to sink is crazy. As the one comment says below if you start giving extensive preventive care to more who do not need it, it will become very expensive; however it does create a lot data to sell and some insurers are into that hot and heavy as big profits in the millions and billions exist. 
At that time about 4 years ago I said “there algorithms and formulas created for accuracy and algorithms and formulas created just to to make money and they should be the same in outcome, but they don’t” and this was before the crash of the stock market too. 
bed next to you, not what I would want. He crawled into her bed in the ER room. He just got out of prison a couple weeks ago. The hospital has security and she got a hold of them immediately and the police came out and took him away. She screamed and nurses came running. She had been medicated and was sleeping. We hear occasionally of staff at hospitals getting out of line but this is the first I had heard of one like this. The security staff says though that more security is needed at hospitals. BD 
domestically they have made some large drug store purchases in the last few years such as Longs, Duane Reade and more. Walgreen also operates their own branded retail clinics and recently satisfied their differences with Express Scripts in addition to doing a business swap with Omnicare a couple years ago to acquire Apothercary RX pharmacies. 
looks more like a “gaming site” and I though the project was nuts to begin with but former HHS director Leavitt got sucked in to this one too thinking the magical algorithms would some how just nail all this information. I wrote back in August of 2011 about it really not going anywhere other than a few code modules that might be produced of some use. 
get a “C” and frankly I don’t blame the Harvard hospitals for disputing those ratings either as some of them are in the same boat. As things in technology change some things don’t work and go by the way side and those are one that nobody would miss. Sure keeping a listing like a Yellow Pages is fine and allow comments but cut out the high school grading and get more accurate information out there with fewer dead doctors for one. 
and you will hear them talk about company quants the folks who create the mathematical business models) and about half way through it gets rolling. We can’t use nonsense queries and models created to make money (we learned this from the banks) only that will end up hurting consumers and too much is already happening and we come back to the formula with the square root that dupes everyone to think it has value when it does not. 
here’s yet one more that has already been affiliated with NY Presbyterian and this cements it. The state has not been interested in bailing out hospitals for the most part and due to it’s location it responds to many emergencies, like the 911 attacks and a few more. This is hospital with a high percentage of Medicaid patients as well as uninsured. This is right in the Wall Street district but you don’t see any banks helping out here at all. Greed is still alive. BD 
NantOmics the sister company of NantWorks which you can read more about at the link below. You can read some of his history in the original article on the cancer drug company he sold to amass his wealth. He sent software out to 8,000 oncologists and now is talking about the “social network” and they are collecting around 2000 samples a week. He is talking about going right to the molecular level to treat patients now. 
doing the shooting was a senior at 75 years old. The doctor was a urologist. The patient did the shooting right in the exam room. He lived in Lake Elsinore so he had a bit of a drive to Newport Beach to see the doctor. Police have no motive yet and are searching his home. From what I see here in the video this appears to be the new Hoag facility outpatient area on Superior. 
doctor in his exam room. 
in July and that just could have something to do with being owned by Beth Israel. Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Milton and Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Needham are two other hospitals already under the system. Looks like Dr. Halamka has one more community hospital under his CIO IT to look after. BD 
you will probably find this of interest. Sure this is the founder of the product and he’s got it down to a science here and in the video he’s using it with Amazing Charts. There’s also a version for AllScripts and one coming for Practice Fusion. When having to stop and do check marks and other small data fields this seems to move it right along. BD 
are the privacy statements that are written by attorneys that hardly anyone can understand and they done that way on purpose. We can reference all kind of other information on the web but can we find a nice drill down query to see what company, bank or other entity sells data and what kind..nope. Keep the the consumer in the dark here as transparency here would make patients more aware of what’s going on. You want patients to be involved, give them the information and especially as relates to privacy. 
HIPAA data and financial. There’s a good video at the link below about a former quant who worked for a Hedge Fund and she’ll tell you how “intelligence” is used against the “dumb” investors and thus so the same happens with “dumb” patients. Let me clarify “dumb” as this is not an attack of any means but “dumb” traders are those who have a 401k who are not actively trading in the market but own some stock and the same thing with patients, they are not actively tracking their own health data but have some of it and like stock it gets sold for profit. 
nd when you will die, to use anything genetic as a way to not pay claims or underwrite you. They tell you they are out to market you so anyone spending any money on your care knows how long they have projected you will live. Nothing like feeling like an old used car when they get done with you. These folks now are collecting other insurance data too as I had my case when I sold my home and my car insurer made a bad data match and out of the blue put the new owners on my car insurance policy on there as secondary drivers, and I had been moved and out the house for 6 months, so how flawed this gets. Someone though I didn’t give complete enough information and added the flawed data. Read what the MIB pitches as that’s one of their areas where the sell, to find information omitted, but they screw up with their flawed data on a simple address match. 
, read this one about a home monitoring service and yes everyone learned from this event including Amazon. Clouds have to be secure under HIPAA and again we have privacy crossing here as you have genomic information (under GINA) on clouds too
We have this happen in all parts of our lives but when it means can’t get money from somewhere or meet deadlines, all you know what breaks loose. That is what we have here with the EMR Trade Group asking. Nobody but your programmers knows for sure and it may take them a while to give you an answer. 
complexities some might believe me. There was even the case of GE Centricity needing to fix their algorithms before it could be certified back in 2011. Just think a little though as we are talking software and on markets you have stuff like this happening every day with charts to prove it. 
ages 18 and older, the agency said on Friday. 
and there is a black box warning relative to cardiovascular disease. The standalone drug, Alogliptin, has been studied in clinical trials which involved and has been considered safe so it appears when the combinations are prescribed, this is where the black box warnings come in to play. Takeda along with the approval is also required to submit a number of studies. BD 
there than most do as it started years ago with Ingenix and they have a a full set of analytics where they sell data. It started out selling prescription data and has grown big time since then. Managing care and selling data are two big profit areas for the company. United is so very large they have so many subsidiaries from a company in China that promotes Chinese drugs and devices to low income housing investments and cheap hearing aids that are sometimes used to entice seniors to sign up for their Secure Horizons plans in areas such as Florida. 
to get a grip on how much will be made with Humedica selling the non identified data from the EMRs, a lot. Money has to come from somewhere to pay the pharmacists in certain parts of the US who work for Walgreen the pay for performance money United dishes out for those who enroll patients in one of United’s service to include the YMCA. Would you buy an EHR from them? They have about three to include a couple they acquired in a couple other company purchases:) 
in there too as a partner, so if you read this far you know the AMA has subsidiaries in the data business too and they sell data and that’s partially how they stay alive as Humedica might be buying data from them too or vice versa. 
venture investors including