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sidney ... i downloaded this article in April of this year which would probably explain why it's not having an affect on pps one way or the other ...
afraid it would sound patronizing if i said "good job" so i won't!!!
but good info is still good info ... right!?
on the subject of our geetarman ...
i think the reason we don't hear from him like we used to is that he was practically tarred and feathered for trying to help "the longs" on this board ...
i have to say if it were me i'd tell y'all to sod off too!
yes, we got SCREWED big time by the RS and JB lining his portfolio but come on guys, we're all grown ups here who should be able to take our medicine if "our" DD wasn't what it should have been ... i knew nothing about stocks let alone the "pink sheets' but that's not their fault, it's MINE! my mother told me about this stock and living here now, i knew the possibilities could be huge!
i can no more stand to loose 50K (my investment to date) than anyone else but i'm not going to spend my life blaming other people for it ... it was a gamble, right? but with all it's problems, bad press, etc. i continue to believe the NHS spine will come to pass, SOMEday ... whether Medify will still be a part of it is anyone's guess but IF they are we might just get our investment back which at this point will make me extremely happy (as i've basically given up on it for anything else) ... IF it turns out laws were broken you can, without hesitation, count me in on the plot for revenge but for now, i beg you, PLEASE GIVE THESE GUYS A BREAK!
this incessant bitching is not doing anyone (especially prospective investors) any good ... would you invest in a stock after reading this board??? i highly doubt it!
but this is all just my opinion and afterall, what do i know
2f2
a little insight into getting a doctor on the phone at an NHS surgery ...
it rarely happens
an NHS Surgery (or doctor's office) is the equivalent to a clinic in the states ... many doctors in one surgery hence many patients
my doctor takes calls between 12:15 & 12:45 on the three days of the week he's there (more times than not i end up leaving a message that he returns AFTER hours) ... the other two days are spent at hospital where he's unreachable ...
the reasons the phones lines are often busy are many ... at my surgery, one cannot yet book appointments in advance, they're understaffed and mired in paperwork so one phonecall can take much longer than it has too but the core reason is because it's free ... you don't pay a penny to see a doctor here which understandably makes the "red tape" all the deeper for it ... (all just one teeny reason behind the mire of the NHS spine) ...
i ask you, should VL continue to have problems reaching this (or any) doctor please remember this before accusing our geetarman of being a co-conspirator by giving him unreachable doctors ... thankyou
2f2
kg ... this is an email i received earlier today from (TD) ameritrade
From: TD AMERITRADE Apex <apexclientservices@tdameritrade.com>
Subject: Reorganization and Dividends (KMM34392207I17490L0KM)
Date: December 18, 2006 05:56:45 PM GMT
Ms. Chapman,
Thank you for your inquiry. We have not yet received the requisite shares from MDFY; we anticipate receiving them on 12/21/06, although there is no guarantee we will actually receive them that day. Once we receive the shares, they will be promptly credited to your account.
Best regards,
Gini M.
Apex Client Services, TD AMERITRADE
Division of TD AMERITRADE, Inc.
don't know about you but i'd like to know WHY it's taking them so much longer than the others to credit my account ...
2f2
thanks for re-posting that ... hadn't realized it was ameritrade you were talking about
anyone know why would they hold like that when all others have distributed the shares?
thanks
2f2
shares aren't showing up in my Ameritrade account ...
anyone with Ameritrade have them yet??
thanks
2f2
michael, thank you for posting your communication with Medify on this board ... afraid it would've been buried under M.Simon's droppings on equity ... nice to have at least those few things confirmed, though i couldn't see where he addressed your final comment ... but then what could he have said!
thanks again
2f2
HURRAH ... FINALLY a literate PR man!
thanks blazed ...
unfortunately i simply don't know enough to fully comprehend what you said but i have always trusted your take on what was what and think i'll continue to do so now ...
REALLY good to have you back ...
2f2
i did manage to put together a tiny bit and the buy went through today @.20 ...
amazing ... just doubled my shares (what was left after the 12/1) for a little over 3000 bucks AND cut the pps by half ... boy do i wish i'd just heard about this stock!
it sure feels better ...
luck to all
listen guys ... i might have been sleepwalking last night BUT ...
- i for one haven't a clue as to why the stock of such a purportedly brilliant and timely product continues to spiral downward (but it does) ...
- i have been lied to and subsequently ripped off so many times i cease to be surprised or terribly bothered when it happens (but like clancy i want them to pay ... or at the very least take some responsibility for what they did to us)
- i've come to terms with any dreams of future riches being shattered as well as losing my investment (but then i'm still here so i must think there's hope)
- last but certainly not least, i've always been a sucker for a good conspiracy theory ...
when all those things come together i get stupid ... from JB (coincidence)D's first post i felt the guy was b.s. but then he posted his take and crazy as it sounds can anyone prove him wrong?
blazed, i've always appreciated and listened when you posted (except when you went a little ballistic awhile back ... just kidding) but from what i've read on the board (i don't have L2) the volume you speak of was mostly people selling so how does that fit in with what you said ... high volume selling at the bottom of a trend is a good thing?
i don't know ... i've probably been put on ignore by most of you for being toosridiculous but here i sit with what used to be 175,000 shares at a decent pps (from averaging down) on which hung a lot of dreams that after JB's fancy hat trick became a mere handful of shares at a pps so high i'll likely never see even my investment back and damnit I'D LIKE TO KNOW WHY!
2f2
most interesting reading to date ...
geetar most logical candidate for follow-up as he seems to understand all this but if he's not up to it maybe i can help ... HOWEVER ... i would need a ton of help from those interested as (you know) i'm completely stock market illiterate ...
obviously not the first choice for this but am willing to try ...
i HATE being f----- over ... especially when it's premeditated!
food4thought
2f2
(5am over here so going back to bed ... unless this all turns out to be a bad dream will check in later in the day)
after all we've been through with this stock how can anyone on this board possibly believe our illustrious (ex)leader, the same man who could barely piece together a coherent PR, capable of dreaming up and executing a scheme of this magnitude ... and all for us?
i just don't see it
feel like i've been screwed ... again
if they'd honored the shares we owned when the dividend was first announced it would have taken some of the sting out of the 12/1 RS as 4/1 of 175,000 would have bandaged my wounds nicely, unfortunately 1/4 of 14,583 shares simply does NOT provide the same pain relief
like many, i've avoided posting because i had nothing positive to say but i've got to let out a bit of my frustration ... i do apologize for bellyaching with this bit of good news finally coming in but honestly, i was hoping for better ...
like many i still believe in the product and just maybe, with JB out of the driver's seat things might get sorted
thanks to y'all for carrying on ...
2f2
BRAVO herbie!
DON'T think this is the news JB was hoping for ..
http://society.guardian.co.uk/health/news/0,,1936403,00.html
Warning over privacy of 50m patient files
Call for boycott of medical database accessible by up to 250,000 NHS staff
What you can do
David Leigh and Rob Evans
Wednesday November 1, 2006
The Guardian
Millions of personal medical records are to be uploaded regardless of patients' wishes to a central national database from where information can be made available to police and security services, the Guardian has learned.
Details of mental illnesses, abortions, pregnancy, HIV status, drug-taking, or alcoholism may also be included, and there are no laws to prevent DNA profiles being added. The uploading is planned under Whitehall's bedevilled £12bn scheme to computerise the health service.
After two years of confusion and delays, the system will start coming into effect in stages early next year.
Though the government says the database will revolutionise management of the NHS, civil liberties critics are calling it "data rape" and are urging Britons to boycott it. The British Medical Association also has reservations. "We believe that the government should get the explicit permission of patients before transferring their information on to the central database," a spokeswoman said yesterday.
And a Guardian inquiry has found a lack of safeguards against access to the records once they are on the Spine, the computer designed to collect details automatically from doctors and hospitals. The NHS initiative is the world's biggest civilian IT project. In the scheme, each person's cradle-to-grave medical records no longer remain in the confidential custody of their GP practice. Instead, up to 50m medical summaries will be loaded on the Spine.
The health department's IT agency has made it clear that the public will not be able to object to information being loaded on to the database: "Patients will have data uploaded ... Patients do not have the right to say the information cannot be held."
Once the data is uploaded, the onus is on patients to speak out if they do not want their records seen by other people. If they do object, an on-screen "flag" will be added to their records. But any objection can be overridden "in the public interest".
Harry Cayton, a key ministerial adviser, warned last month of "considerable pressure to obtain access to [the] data from ... police and immigration services", but he is confident that these demands can be resisted by his department.
Another concern is the number of people who can view the data. The health department has issued 250,000 pin-coded smart cards to NHS staff. These will grant varied access from more than 30,000 terminals - greater access for medical staff, and less for receptionists. Health managers, council social workers, private medical firms, ambulance staff, and commercial researchers will also be able to see varying levels of information. Officials say the data will be shared only on a need-to-know basis. But Guardian inquiries show a lack of safeguards.
Although data protection laws supposedly ban unnecessary build-ups of computer information, patients will get no right to choose whether their history is put on the Spine. Once uploading has taken place, a government PR blitz will follow. This will be said to bring about "implied consent" to allow others view the data. Those objecting will be told that their medical care could suffer.
The government claims that computerised "sealed envelopes" will allow patients selectively to protect sensitive parts of their uploaded history from being widely accessed. But no such software is yet in existence. It is being promised for an unspecified date. Some doctors say "sealed envelopes" may be too complex to be workable. The design also allows NHS staff to "break the seal" under some circumstances. Police will be able to seek data, including on grounds of national security. Government agencies can get at records, according to the health department, if "the interests of the general public are thought to be of greater importance than your confidentiality". Examples given of such cases include "serious crime and national security".
The department's guidelines say: "The definition of serious crime is not entirely clear ... Serious harm to the security of the state or to public order, and crimes that involve substantial financial gain or loss will ... generally fall within this category." The health department says confidentiality can already be breached in such cases.
At present, police have to persuade a GP, who knows the patient, to divulge limited facts, or insist on a court order.
Under the new system, data may be disclosed centrally and anonymously, at the touch of a button. Health department privacy advisers say they do not wish to allow police to have clinical information. But they are prepared to disclose patients' addresses.
Another safeguard initially promised was that all patients would be able to check their records on the internet for mistakes. But a system involving the issue of smart cards to patients has not yet been tried out.
Current criminal penalties are so weak they have failed to stop tabloid journalists and private detectives raiding such data on an industrial scale, according to a recent special report by Richard Thomas, the information commissioner.
Sir John Bourn's National Audit Office also wrote a recent report warning of significant concerns among NHS staff "that the confidentiality of patient information may be at risk". But officials persuaded the NAO to delete the warnings in the published version.
The original draft said: "Patient confidentiality remains a controversial issue among critics ... both as regards the adequacy of the planned safeguards to protect information, and whether patients should have a right to opt out of having their information recorded".
my sentiments exactly lem ...
but damn that bullet stings
2f2
Smartcards anyone ???
a few on the equity board are raising good questions about the smartcards necessary to access patient info ... anyone here know anything about how they will work with the handheld devices?
http://www.equitygroups.com/pinksheets/mfys/messages/68437.html
http://www.equitygroups.com/pinksheets/mfys/messages/69688.html
http://www.equitygroups.com/pinksheets/mfys/messages/69686.html
thanks in advance
2f2
sorry clancy but these "foolish" shares are still intact!
(hope that turns out to be a good thing)
2foolish
EMIS to pilot GP records access via BlackBerry!??!
i apologize if this is redundant (article dated 9.22) but as i'm still not able to keep up no idea whether it's been discussed or not ... you've probably all seen it but if not you should;
http://www.ehiprimarycare.com/news/item.cfm?ID=2148
EMIS to pilot GP records access via BlackBerry
22 Sep 2006 Click to see the
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GP computer supplier EMIS is to pilot GP access to patient records via a BlackBerry mobile device from next month.
The GP Access system will enable GPs to view any of their patients’ records, initially on a read-only basis, while away from the surgery using a BlackBerry.
The service has been developed with PAERS, a company which has pioneered technology to enable patient access to records, and will be available via Pearl Medical, which already runs a BlackBerry service for GPs.
Sean Riddell, managing director of EMIS, claimed the service was a great example of an integrated service using different IT systems and suppliers.
He added: “GPs are increasingly mobile and it’s vital that they have secure, safe and easy access to their patients’ medical records on the go. GP Access offers them exactly that; we believe it’s a revolutionary development.”
Riddell told EHI Primary Care that the service was likely to cost GP subscribers around £15 a month and said the next two phases of development for GP Access, which is available via any computer with an internet connection, will enable GPs to book appointments and then to add changes to records.
Dr Ralph Sullivan, a GP in the Yorkshire Dales, is among those who hopes to pilot the service from next month.
He told EHI Primary Care: “The best advantage of this system is that you can have access to information about patients on an unplanned basis, for example when you go to a nursing home to visit one patient and then are asked to see somebody else as well.”
Riddell claimed GPs could also be confident that the system was safe and secure.
He said: “The system uses strong authentication, which creates a unique multi-digit number every time they log in. This means they have secure encrypted web access, the strongest level of web authentication there is.”
A recent survey of 500 of Pearl Medical’s GP members revealed that nearly 90% were interested in having read-only access service to patient records.
Dr Brian Fisher, a GP in south London and director of PAERS, said he believed the service would significantly improve safety for patients and make doctors lives a lot easier.
He added: “Having secure access to any of our patients’ full records at any time, in any location, will be a great convenience.”
someone, anyone, please tell me i'm misinterpreting this info ... it's breaking my heart ... 2f2
gobsmacked ...
haven't had a chance to catch up on all posts since 4:16pm yesterday so don't know whether this has been discussed or not BUT ... what about the fact that a stock must be above $1 (for ? long) to be eligible for the nasdaq board ... any chance this could facotr into the split or am i grasping???????????????????????????????????????????
what a friggin' ride this has been ...
not sure i'm even going to look when i get home tonight!
2f2
lookup - thankyou for this post
have not been able to keep up let alone catch up on all posts of late so this was an enormous help ... obviously thankUs to all for helping keep us (me) informed ... hope to rejoin someday soon
lookin'good ...
ta - 2f2
hey all ...
in the middle of moving so haven't been able to keep up with all the posts these past weeks but what i've read has been great (i include mfysinterest) ... thankyou
iSoft has been headlining all the papers over here, MUCH doom 'n gloom ($500 pps a year ago ... $50 now ... that must've hurt) i think we all know that no matter what happens with isoft the NHS is NOT going to pull the plug on this thing but what i'd like to know is how does their misfortune help/hurt Medify? solid says they're the competition but is that true?
ages ago trevor made a comment about them ... thought it was along the lines of being able to work with rather than compete with but it was a long time ago and this MOVING HELL doesn't leave you with much at the end of the day ...
if there've been any posts about this i would be beholdin' if someone would point me in their direction ... if not, whaddyathink?
thanks
2f2
clancy ... i've been rummaging through the ol'grey matter trying to come up with something clever but a lousy flubug has been rummaging through me ...
alas, the best i can do (for now) is ...
clancy - i know you pulled your $$$ last year but you earned your fatigue along with the rest ... anyone who'd begrudge you pulling your dough until YOU were good and ready to jump back in (if ever) is an ass ... actually, because you've been so cautious i for one am thrilled to know you're back in!
and what a lovely low pps you must have ... congrats
NO ONE is more tired than i
(except maybe lem ... or dwudman ... or clancy ... or mikew ... or love2laugh (u still around?) ... or herbie ... or my faveorite ol'dude ... man, if blazed is still around i bet he's REAL tired ... i'd even bet lloyd pooping out about now)
doc never seems tired ... all that hopping in and out he doesn't have time to be tired ... amazing how green things can perk ya up
what about you bax ... excluding unfulfilled promises what are you tired of ... waiting for just the right time to jump in can be exhausting ... i know your fingers MUST be tired ... man you post with the best of 'em
no hard feelings guys ... had a couple of minutes to kill before my nap
2f2
halleluyah!
looks like new news to me ... or is it merely another cleverly reworded rehash of old news?
still it continues to boggle the mind ... the pps looks hopeful but the volume ain't showing shit
to quote a classic line from "Moonstruck" ... "i'm so confused!"
has anyone noticed the last two sales of the day these past few days???
yesterday we closed at .06 then at 16:01, 2 identical sales of 165000 @ .059
tonight we close again at .06 then at 16:01, 2 identical sales of 1435000 @ .059
i'm positive the same thing happened on monday cuz initially thought we'd closed down then noticed the sales came (or were listed) after the close but didn't think any more about it so don't have the numbers but remember thinking how weird that 2 identical sales came in just after 4:00 for less than the closing price ...
am i starting to see little green men here or what ???
OR are they just late posting sales from earlier in the day and if so how can they do that?
doubtful it means anything but since i don't know what to thnk anymore the old imagination is running riot
but still hangin'in ... actually, too curious to do anything else
chatter? about medify? you're kidding, right!
i'm sorry ... i wish i could tell you something encouraging like it's on everyone's minds but it's not and even once it's in use i doubt the name will be known by many ... the doctors here know THE CHANGE is coming but that's all they know ... i'm afriad we're involved in what may end up being one of the last NHS Npfit rollouts ... doesn't mean it will be that way anywhere else of course i'm speaking only of the UK ...
when i first heard about mfys i was SO jazzed ... told everyone i knew (here) about it ... the average reaction was "don't hold your breath" ... apparently executing any sort of major change in this country takes substantially longer than most places and waiting and watching as our pps drops outta sight i'd have to say they were probably right
god i've turned into such a bummer HOWEVER ... i continue to hold strong cuz i still believe in our little company ...
me mum's stubborn irish blood i guess
public apology ...
unfortunately the mere mention of that woman's name is enough to make me wretch but that doesn't give me license to use up valuable Medify posting space imposing my political views on y'all ...
sosorry
heydude - that article was lovely ... it's nice to know we're not despised by everyone
now it's a BIG black shiny cockroach (with pinchers) ... she's never looked better!
lloyd - don't know MsCoulter personally but i doubt she'd like being referred to as a budget rental car
you mean comments like "Bring 'em on!"?
good post herbie ...
i've encountered what i believe you're referring to on more than one ocassion but was so dumbfounded by it i chose to let it go ...
bravo on your post and your discretion
what "exactly" is it we don't get?
Health service IT contractor in crisis
i've no idea if or how this may affect us but it gives a little insight into "the bigger picture" and possible reasons behind some of the problems medify has been having ...
Health service IT contractor in crisis
Richard Wray
Friday June 9, 2006
The Guardian
One of the software firms at the heart of the NHS's £6.2bn IT upgrade yesterday said it had to change the way it accounts for its revenues, knocking a huge hole in its profits. The move has forced iSoft to cut 15% of staff, sell non-core assets, renegotiate its overdraft, and consider wiping £500m off the value of a business now valued at only £117.3m by the City, less than when it floated six years ago.
Manchester-based iSoft has been plagued by delays to the NHS programme and there are concerns in the Square Mile that the company is suffering a cash squeeze. It has warned on profits twice this year and yesterday admitted that it has to change the entire way it recognised revenues from the sale of its software.
The company's own joint broker, Morgan Stanley, appeared to admit defeat yesterday, suspending its recommendation on the stock. It added: "We don't feel that we have enough visibility to offer a recommendation." Fellow broker Bridgewell Securities added that putting the new figures into its financial model "would imply an extreme price drop".
In fact, its shares plunged 32p to 51p yesterday - a drop of 38% - having been more than 450p in August last year. The company floated in July 2000 at 110p a share and at the time was worth £123m. Yesterday it was valued at just £117.3m.
Since the flotation the three men that bought the business in 1998 from within the accounting group KPMG have been selling shares. Patrick Cryne, who led the buyout but has since left the board, plus former director Roger Dickens and current commercial director Steve Graham, have made themselves more than £90m through a series of share sales.
The company said yesterday it has decided to stop recognising software licence revenues at the time of delivery and recognise them, instead, over the full length of the contract. This will slash iSoft's annual profits to between £3m and £7m compared with expectations, set less than six weeks ago, of £17m to £22m. Following an emergency board meeting on Wednesday, at which the change in revenue recognition was agreed, the company said yesterday that it now expected revenues for the year to end April 2006 to be £195m to £200m compared with its original forecast of up to £215m. Its auditors have yet to sign off these accounts.
In addition, iSoft yesterday sliced the revenues it reported for the previous year - to April 2005 - to £190m compared with the £262m reported at the time. It must cut revenues from the year before that by £55m and the year before that by £40m, despite the fact that the group's performance over this three-year period paid out handsome bonuses to senior management.
A spokesman for the company defended the bonuses, saying: "It's easy with the benefit of hindsight to draw attention to these but on the other hand the accounting policy applied at the time was appropriate. It's easy to look back."
The change in revenue accounting has forced the company to renegotiate its banking facilities. It is also cutting 150 staff - or 15% of its UK workforce - and looking to sell off "non-core assets" including buildings.
The company is also reviewing its balance sheet and may have to write down up to £500m - or more than three times the value of the business - of goodwill related to previous acquisitions.
http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1793607,00.html
you call it "complaining" i prefer to think of it as continuing to look at the big picture from as many angles as i can
unlike you i am NOT a player, i don't have the knowledge, the inclination nor the time to invest in learning how "to play"
i bought into mfys pre-split and have been fortunate (or stupid, remains to be seen) enough to average down along with the pps but now i'm tapped and can only watch as you continue to lower your pps expectations and extend your profitability guidelines another year all the while maintaining we've hit upon a 10-bagger (a term i was unfamiliar with but get it's meaning) HOWEVER a 10 bagger @ a penny is a far cry from a 10-bagger @ a buck ... am i wrong?
i've probably, once again, overreacted to the negative press of late for which i am extremely sorry but if you lived over here and everyday you picked up the paper and were confronted by more articles on delays, cost, etc. even you might get a bit jumpy ...
that's what i was thinkin ...
fyi - it's 2F2 not 242!
no lem, i did not see anything about a remote and i'm sorry if i alluded to that ...
what i did see was an independent company that basically accomplished what the NHS has been trying to do without all the fuss ... with all they do i can't imagine a secure remote is too far down the line
medify had a great edge when we got into this but as deadlines and release dates pass or get pushed back that edge inevitably grows smaller ... that's all i meant
i'm still in and will probably remain that way as there's nothing to be gained by selling at this point but i'm afraid my cheerleading days are behind me ... sorry guys (and gals?)