An Ebola goof and an Obama crony (pocketed $30 Billion stimulus for faulty Texas tech)

nypost.com ^ | 10/9/14 | MICHELLE MALKIN

[Liz]

--snip-- Texas Health contracts with Epic Systems for its electronic-medical-records (EMR) system. Epic was founded by billionaire Judy Faulkner, a top Obama donor---the dominant EMR player in the US health-care market. The firm’s Top 10 PAC recipients are all Dem/lefty outfits: DCCC got nearly $230,000; DNC Services Corp. nearly $175,000.......Obama campaign-finance bundler, Faulkner, served as an adviser to WH health-information-tech guru David Blumenthal--in charge of dispensing EMR subsidies. Faulkner also served on the same committee Blumenthal chaired.

Epic and other large firms lobbied aggressively for nearly $30 billion in 2009 stimulus subsidies. Epic has been the subject of rising industry and provider complaints about its antiquated, closed-end system.

Until recently, health-care providers say, the company refused to share data with doctors and hospitals using alternative platforms. Now it charges exorbitant fees to enable the very interoperability the Obama EMR mandate was supposed to ensure. One malpractice-insurance group revealed that it found 147 cases “in which electronic health records contributed to ‘adverse events’ that affected patients” — 46 resulted in death.

[Sooth2222]

Until recently, health-care providers say, the company refused to share data with doctors and hospitals using alternative platforms. Now it charges exorbitant fees to enable the very interoperability the Obama EMR mandate was supposed to ensure. One malpractice-insurance group revealed that it found 147 cases “in which electronic health records contributed to ‘adverse events’ that affected patients” — 46 resulted in death.

The Obama EMR mandate follows the overall Obamacare pattern of making a bad problem even worse.

[Pearls Before Swine]

When they were discussing Duncan’s Ebola case, I remember hearing a comment that “his origin from Liberia was in the electronic record system.” I think the comment was some blame shifting about why his origin hadn’t been noted in deciding his treatment the first time he went to the hospital, as if having info buried somewhere in the system means everyone has done their job. It’s not the same thing as having the records be useful, and serving their purpose.

[Salgak]

I got approached by this company last winter. They were DESPERATE for competent people. . .and weren’t getting any.

They offered me, a 30-year-veteran of IT and Systems Engineering, a lordly 16.50/hour. . . and said that was the absolute highest they could go, but they REALLY needed senior IT folks.

One of the few times I laughed at a recruiter as I stood up and walked out. .

[Liz]

Thanks for the realtime input.

[MrB]

Every policy of the Obama administration has been de facto reparations.

[Liz]

It’s unnerving to know this criminal’s been lying in wait-—duping America to get into office.

Couldn’t wait to get his filthy hands on our tax dollars to move his covert agenda.

[DUMBGRUNT]

16.50/hour !!

And they want 15 an hour to flip burgers at Mickey D’s!
And they get a free meal each shift!

[Salgak]

Needless to say, I made significantly more than that then, and still do.

And I **STILL** get pings for them, asking if I’d reconsider.

Last time (about a month ago, I told them I’d accept IF they moved the rate one decimal place to the right. . . (evil grin)

[GailA]

btt

[no-s]

I got approached by this company last winter. They were DESPERATE for competent people. . .and weren’t getting any.

They offered me, a 30-year-veteran of IT and Systems Engineering, a lordly 16.50/hour. . . and said that was the absolute highest they could go, but they REALLY needed senior IT folks.

You should run away from EPIC even if they offer $300/hr. EPIC is classic awful '90s client server style. There's no fixing it. I inspected some installations and found them to be "User-hostile" to the max. My wife has spent about 200 hours learning how to use it properly (mostly uncompensated).

Why did the hospital buy it? We speculate management received word the unions would not conduct an EPIC protest...but heaven help them if they bought anything else...

[W.]

Could this be one of the reasons 0bama’s net worth has [supposedly] grown from 2 mil to 12 mil in the last six years or so? He gives his buds our tax revenue through some spurious program and they kick some back under the table or speaking fees, etc?

[Salgak]

Well, as they continue to offer me the “market” pay of $16.50 for a “Senior IT Security Professional”, I wouldn’t be getting near them.

But next time they call, I’ll ask if I can have fries with that. . . (evil grin)

[Liz]

$12M is for public consumption---what he allows us to know----God knows the billions stashed offshore.

"Hi there, Americans. Obama put me in charge of the trillion dollar stimulus.
My son and brother are gonna help me disperse the money. "

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Offshore Fraudster had links to offshore fund run by VP Biden's relatives
Reuters on Yahoo | 2/23/09 | BY Ajay Kamalakaran

(Reuters) – A fund of offshore hedge funds run by two members of VP Joe Biden's family was marketed exclusively by offshore firms controlled by Texas financier Allen Stanford, charged by regulators with an $8 billion fraud, the Wall Street Journal said.

The Bidens $50 million fund was jointly branded between the Bidens' Paradigm Global Advisors LLC and the offshore Stanford Financial Group entity headquartered in Antigua, and was known as the Paradigm Stanford Capital Management Core Alternative Fund, the paper said. Stanford-related offshore companies marketed the Biden fund to investors and also invested about $2.7 million of their own money in the fund, the paper said, citing a lawyer for Paradigm.

Paradigm Global Advisors is owned through a holding company by the vice president Biden's son, Hunter, and Joe Biden's brother, James, according to the WSJ. Paradigm's attorney, Marc LoPresti, who represents Hunter Biden and James Biden, as well as Paradigm, told the paper he did not know which Stanford entity invested the roughly $2.7 million. (Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...

NOTE A lawyer for Hunter Biden and James Biden told reporters the Bidens NEVER met or communicated with Stanford. (/snicker)

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Convicted con man R. Allen Stanford used offshore corporate money to become a big man ae the Democratic convention in Denver. A video posted on the firm's web-site shows Stanford, being hugged by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and praised by former President Bill Clinton for helping to finance a Democrat convention-related forum and party put on by the National Democratic Institute.

"I would like to thank the Stanford Financial Group for helping to underwrite this," Clinton said to the crowd at the event. Stanford Financial was listed as the "lead benefactor" for the gathering, and Stanford was permitted to address the audience of several hundred.

The SEC charged yesterday that Stanford was running a fraudulent offshore investment scheme that may have bilked customers out of as much as $8 billion. Over the last decade, Stanford has spent more than $7 million on lobbyists and campaign contributions to Washington politics in both parties, although the vast majority of the money has gone to Democrats.

"We had no reason to believe that a very public company that was also engaged in philanthropic work might be suspect," said a spokesperson for the National Democratic Institute, Amy Dudley. (Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...

NANCY PELOSI DANCING W/ CON MAN ALAN STANFORD AT DEMOCRAT BIGDO.