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Joe Atkins, RN, MBA, CNN, CHT

Chief Executive Officer
Medical Concepts & Innovations
Member of the Healthcare Council

Joe Atkins, RN, MBA, CNN, CHT, is the Chief Executive Officer and Owner of Medical Concepts & Innovations. He serves as a Consultant for ESRD providers, manufacturers of dialysis supplies, and investment houses in New York and London. Mr. Atkins has set-up, owned, and operated his own facility and has assisted in the set-up of facilities for many clients, providing all required CMS paperwork for set-up and operations, and management. He a patented inventor of dialysis related devices, most recently, a new permanent dialysis catheter system. Mr. Atkins is a published author with over 33 years of dialysis experience. His career in dialysis evolved, beginning as a dialysis technician, nephrology nurse and eventually moving into all phases of administration and operations. Mr. Atkins researches all major dialysis corporations, such as Amgen, Fresenius, DaVita, Baxter, Polypore-Membrana, Gambro, as well as the medium and small dialysis chains and all other dialysis related companies. (This is me - Update Profile)


Employment History
2005 - present Chief Executive Officer
Medical Concepts & Innovations

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FDA: Chinese Manufacturer of Tainted Heparin Involved in Fraud. | 04-30-2008
Author: Joe Atkins, RN, MBA, CNN, CHT, Chief Executive Officer, Medical Concepts & Innovations

First, and foremost, the only working link for this article can be found at: http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSWAT00934620080415?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews Although there is no proof offered in the article to substantiate the suggestion of fraud, there is enough circumstantial...

FDA Fees Must Be Increased to Fund Inspection of Chinese Products. | 04-30-2008
Analysis of: FDA fees eyed to boost food, drug safety | www.usatoday.com
Author: Joe Atkins, RN, MBA, CNN, CHT, Chief Executive Officer, Medical Concepts & Innovations

One only has to read about the Heparin debacle, which has killed, at least, 81 Americans, to realize that there is a serious issue with the quality of medicines produced in China.  Manufacturing of medical food and consumer goods in China is growing at such a rate, the Chinese government has neither...

Who to Blame for Waste in the Medical Industry? Who's on First? | 04-30-2008
Author: Joe Atkins, RN, MBA, CNN, CHT, Chief Executive Officer, Medical Concepts & Innovations

It's easy to point fingers of blame and this article does that, very well.  According to the "annalysis" everybody is to blame.  And, they're right, everyone is to blame, but where the article fails is the authoris inability to point out a real solution to the problem of wasted dollars spent...

Anemia Drugs Have Been Abused for Profit! | 04-30-2008
Analysis of: WellPoint likely to follow FDA on anemia drugs | www.reuters.com
Author: Joe Atkins, RN, MBA, CNN, CHT, Chief Executive Officer, Medical Concepts & Innovations

Over the last year, it has become clear that the over-use of anemia drugs for cancer and renal failure has become a problem.  The reason can be sumed up in one word, which is profit.

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