Missouri Governor Matt Blunt appointed Freeman Health System CEO Gary Duncan to the Missouri Healthcare Information Technology Task Force today.
Also appointed from southwest Missouri were: Gordon Kinne, president of Med Pay in Springfield; and Randy Meents, owner of Greenfield Pharmacy.
According to the governor's news release: "Blunt created the task force to ensure that healthcare information can be readily available to health care providers, consumers, and public health agencies in order to make the best healthcare decisions and to improve patient safety by reducing medical errors. The governor introduced the task force in his State of the State Address and signed Executive Order 06-03
last month to officially create the task force."
I can't wait for more Freeman bragging commercials!
ReplyDeleteI kinda think the person who is always complaining about bragging is maybe a bit jealous. If a business never "brags" no one will ever know what they have to offer, if Randy never "brags" we will never know his story. You are using the "brag" word in the wrong context.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, this is Randy's blog, if you don't like what there is to read here you know what you can do.
Oh, please. Stop the bickering. Maybe now that Duncan will be working with the Task Force, he can do for Missouri what he and his cohorts have done for Freeman: create the most disturbingly corrupt medical system ever. Freeman Hospital is the devil.
ReplyDeleteI am amazed that with the same insurance (and YES Freeman is the hospital I am supposed to go to) I can go to another participating medical system and end up paying nothing for labs and never pay more than a copay for care. Why??? Because Freeman is scamming the system, that's why. I'll never allow another Freeman doctor to touch me, either, not after the bad experience I had with a heart cath.
Is it true that Freeman has in the past sent patients who can not pay across the street to St. Johns? I have heard of this, does anyone know?
ReplyDeleteDon't think for a second that StJohn's has your best interests at heart. I prefer Freeman to the StJohn's for many reasons. StJohns' lost the ability to accept pt's who have Blue Cross insurance, what can a hospital do that is so bad Blue Cross won't let their pt's go there?
ReplyDeleteOn a lighter note: Thanks to all the casinos in NE Oklahoma advertising on TV, we don't have to put up with St. Johns or Freeman commercials as much...
ReplyDeleteSt. John's didn't "lose" the ability to take Blue Cross patients; what happened was, Blue Cross awarded its contract to Freeman because Freeman offered more $$$$. So then Freeman turns around and passes on the costs to its patients. That is why I won't go back.
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