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Personal Health Records – Who’s in the Know and Who has one?

I spend quite a bit of time here posting about new developments and yes I have both a Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault account, I do comparisons, etc. I see many very prolific bloggers and journalists talking about PHRs too, but something that...

Published Thu, Nov 11 2008 1:36 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Medical Records, medicare, PHR, Google Health, Clincal Trials, Personal Health Records, Health 2.0, Microsoft HealthVault

Clinical Trials in the US – Begin involving the physicians and patients at the point of care to achieve greater success and participation with Personal Health Records

There are many companies out there who have some very elaborate data bases and software to connect participants and investigators; however, what appears to be missing here is the patient and physician involvement at the point of care. When looking...

Published Tue, Nov 11 2008 2:02 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, healthcare, Medical Records, PHR, Google Health, Clincal Trials, Personal Health Records, Health 2.0, Microsoft HealthVault

Why Use a PHR – Because It is there and it stands to help decrease medical errors

We all long for the day that all practices and hospitals can transmit medical records and talk to each other, but as we all know it is not there yet and will continue to evolve, and add on today’s economic crisis, something that is already slowing down...

Published Sun, Nov 11 2008 1:52 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, Health IT, PHR, Google Health, VA, Department of Defense, personal heatlh records, Military Health Records

Military to unveil early version of personal health record – December

This is an update on a post from a few days ago, now the target date looks to be in December, and don’t quote me for sure, but you can almost bet their will be some interoperability built in when completed. BD From a few days ago: Microsoft...

Published Fri, Nov 11 2008 2:59 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, Health IT, PHR, Google Health, VA, Department of Defense, personal heatlh records, Military Health Records

Study Predicts Big Savings from PHRs (Personal Health Records) – Best Kept Secret in Healthcare?

There’s probably no bigger fan of PHRs than yours truly here, but where’s the awareness and out reach here, it doesn’t exist. The technology is out there, but what good is it if nobody uses it or realizes the value. Consumers, much less doctors...

Published Thu, Nov 11 2008 3:05 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, Education, PHR, Google Health, Personal Health Records, Microsoft HealthVault

Favrille Biotech and MyMedicalRecords.com, Inc. Announce Merger Agreement

This is a real interesting merger with a biotech company patient-specific immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and other diseases of the immune system merging with a company that provides personal health records, both companies from California...

Published Mon, Nov 11 2008 8:34 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Biotech, PHR, Google Health, Cancer, clinical trials, Personal Health Records, R and D

Medical Quack around the Web this week – November 2008

Here are a few additional posts that have been posted by Fox and Reuters this week. There are several more published over the last few weeks, but here’s a few of the highlights for this week. The AARP story was the same post as featured on...

Published Thu, Nov 11 2008 11:33 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, PHR, Google Health, AARP, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, eprescribing, Medical Quack, NEPSI, Reuters, Fox News, DNA technology

Microsoft is lead developer on military Personal Health Records project

If you have been reading this blog of late, there have been many posts about personal health records, and now it seems those 2 companies that everyone seems to worry about related to security with PHRs, Microsoft and Google, are now working on a project...

Published Wed, Nov 11 2008 2:50 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, Health IT, PHR, Google Health, VA, Department of Defense, personal heatlh records, Military Health Records

eClinicalWorks Users Annual Meeting – Integration and the Future of EHRS and PHRs

The Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (MAeHC), has to be one of the very early readers of the Medical Quack and I have featured their press releases as they have moved along, and the president was the Keynote speaker. Dr. Halamka is featured all...

Published Tue, Nov 11 2008 5:10 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Medical Records, EHR, PHR, Google Health, e-prescribing, integration, personal health record, Healthcre, eClinicalWorks

CVS/Caremark join the Generic Discount Club – Connect information to Personal Health Record Accounts

$9.99 for 90 days with enrollment with the Health Savings Pass CVS becomes the latest retail drug chain to jump on the bandwagon, pretty close in comparison, except you need to join the Health Savings Plan. The plan is primarily created for cash...

Published Fri, Oct 10 2008 1:51 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, PHR, Google Health, Prescriptions, Generic Drugs, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, CVS, Discounts, Minute Clinic

Google Health Online Services – Connections Beyond Medications – Personal Health Records

The other day I posted about some of the vendors Google Health connects with and today I’ll add a few more. These online services go beyond prescriptions and labs, and some are in fact, other subscription forms of personal health records. ...

Published Wed, Oct 10 2008 4:08 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Medical Records, PHR, Google Health, Clincal Trials, Personal Health Records, Health 2.0

Healthline – Interview with the CEO – Health 2.0

Good interview from Robert Scoble and well worth listening to, he speaks about how healthcare is in a very fast pace, faster than what we have known in the past and about the shift to the consumer is evolving as far as taking care and accumulating your...

Published Sun, Oct 10 2008 2:58 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, privacy, microsoft, Medical Records, PHR, Google Health, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, Economy, MIB, Health 2.0, Healthline

Google Health Vendors you can connect with and import records

It has been a while since I updated some of the vendors that you can import in to your online health records. First of all there is Walgreens .png?imgmax=800" width="129" align="right" alt="" /> and Longs Drugs. You can import your drug records...

Published Fri, Oct 10 2008 9:46 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Medical Records, PHR, Google Health, e-prescribing, Longs Drugs, Allscripts, Walgreen, personal health record, Minute Clinic, Healthcre

Getting Organized With Online Medical Records – Personal Health Records

More coverage this week on using a PHR (personal health record), this time from Joan Lunden. There are many out there to choose from, some are free and some require a fee, such as the one mentioned in this article. Are you a confused consumer? ...

Published Tue, Oct 10 2008 11:20 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, microsoft, Medical Records, PHR, Google Health, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, passsportMD

Family Health Portrait from the US Surgeon General – Duplication of Efforts

The site is a nice effort to give consumers a place to list their family health history, but gee, in looking at it, I just see if as another duplication of better efforts already in place. There are no 3rd party vendors who will add information...

Published Tue, Oct 10 2008 11:31 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Medical Records, PHR, Google Health, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, Family Health Portrait

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