Comments on: Monday Morning Update 1/18/10

By: p_anon

p_anon — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 03:07:31 +0000

Suzie RN, I think you would do well to read up on confirmation bias. I don’t know you in person, but as a commenter on this blog you are fully one-sided and seem to suffer from confirmation bias. Maybe you’re doing it on purpose, to raise awareness, but maybe you’re not even aware you’re doing it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias

By: OnePlusOneisThree

OnePlusOneisThree — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:41:33 +0000

On Jackson Memorial and “one excuse for its $438 million in AR is its billing system change.”

“One excuse for its $438 million in AR is its mismanaged billing system change.”

There, fixed that for ya.

By: counter to doubter

counter to doubter — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:21:29 +0000

Doubter,

If you do not like the fact the one company is flooding the ballot, start a grass roots movement and spread the word about HIStalk. If you do this stuffing the ballot box becomes less and less significant, and in the mean time the HISSies become more relevant.

If some can dilute the voting pool one way, I can do the same thing the opposite way.

On that note Allen Iverson for the NBA all-stars all the way.

By: Haiti Help

Haiti Help — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:34:46 +0000

There are a number of valid, great organizations doing work in Haiti right now, and some of the faith-based ones have been there for years. I do volunteer work with a GREAT organization where 100% of ALL donations will to relief, especially to the orphans (Haiti already had 400,000 of them BEFORE the quake). They have a benefactor who pays ALL administration costs, to allow all the donations to flow directly to the kids. They build orphan homes (not for adoption – for care) with local Haitian churches and put in agriculture and training to make the home sustainable within 3-4 years.

Please check out The Global Orphan Project, powered by C3 Missions, to learn more. These are people of integrity, with teams on the ground, right now in Haiti, delivering food, water, medical care, love and hope to this devastated country.

http://www.theglobalorphanproject.org

By: Suzie, RN

Suzie, RN — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:02:09 +0000

Mr. Histalk,

Your blog is wonderful. Say it is not true for a highly wired hospital to reach financial ruin.

http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1057193/jackson_memorial_hospital_uses_stateoftheart_technology_to_drive_improved_patient/index.html

“One excuse for its $438 million in AR is its billing system change.”