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Blue Button Mobile Available for Veterans to Download and View Personal Health Records

Northrop Grumman has developed a mobile application called VA-214 whereby personal health records can remotely access MyHealthVet from an Android or iPhone. I have had a series of posts on this topic and you can read more and learn about the...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2011 2:35 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, microsoft, medicare, PHR, VA, Medicaid, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, CMS, personal heatlh records, mHealth, Blue Button, Northrup Grumman

HealthVault-Setting Up Consumer Email Address For Secure Messages Using Government Direct Project

I am just going to address here how you as a a consumer get set up through HealthVault. As Sean has mentioned on the blog, there will be more information coming out for providers to get set up from their end. Now he says it’s simple...

Published Sat, Feb 02 2011 1:10 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, microsoft, Medical Records, Email, PHR, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, HHS, HIMMS, encryption, Gateway, ONC, Direct Project, NIHN

Microsoft Delivers Encrypted E-mail Using Government “Direct Project” Security Protocols With HealthVault Personal Health Records

Something we have all been waiting for today is finally open for business, the “Direct Project” from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. You can read the official press release from the ONC Office here. I have covered a...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2011 2:02 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, microsoft, Medical Records, Email, PHR, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, HHS, HIMMS, encryption, Quest Diagnostics, ONC, Direct Project, NIHN

MedApps Remote Monitoring for 3G Added to AT&T 3G Platform

MedApps is one of the devices/software services that has been cleared by the FDA. Sometimes what does and does not need FDA approval gets a bit cloudy today. MedApps combines several devices into one platform so you line up an army of devices...

Published Fri, Jan 01 2011 12:48 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, healthcare, Medical Devices, Health IT, Google Health, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, Bluetooth, Cloud Computing, HealthPal, wireless remote monitoring, MedApps

Partnering For Cures Conference Unveils Prototype Model for Accelerating Cancer Research Using Microsoft HealthVault/Amalga and Data from Nat’l Cancer Institute

HealthVault and Amalga are very commonly used together with Microsoft solutions and the first time this was introduced on a large scale was at Scripps in San Diego and Steve Shihadeh from Microsoft and I had nice chat about it. With using HealthVault...

Published Thu, Dec 12 2010 5:48 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, microsoft, Health IT, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, Heatlhcare, Amalga, Life Sciences, National Cancer Institute, RHIO, Aggregated hospital data, Steve Shihadeh, Partnering for Cures, Mike Naimoli

VA Blue Button Update–If You are a Vet or an MD Seeing a Vet Get the Health Data Available With Patient Ability to Download (Video)

I have posted on this topic a few times but the White House has released a video that gives a quick over view and man Vets have ben able to retrieve their information to keep or choose to share with their doctors. If you are a private practice doctor...

Published Tue, Dec 12 2010 6:52 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, microsoft, medicare, PHR, VA, Medicaid, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, CMS, White House, personal heatlh records, Blue Button

Personal Health Records – PHR Roundtable At the ONC-Hope All Experts and Attendees Actually Use a PHR-Hands On Experience Coupled with Other Knowledge Is The Best

A little background here on the Medical Quack is that I have been following PHRs since they began with HealthVault and Google Health and actually have a section on the blog with over 300 posts with many ‘how to’s” and a ton of information. What...

Published Thu, Dec 12 2010 7:13 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, Health IT, PHR, Google Health, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, Data, consumers, Non participants, ONC, RoundTable, Mapgie healthcare

Norton Healthcare To Use Microsoft Health Solutions Platforms to Support Its Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Initiative

This ACO is the first in the region and one of four national pilot sites for the Brookings-Dartmouth ACO Pilot Project. ED clinicians, primary care doctors, specialists, nurses, patients or family members will have the ability to access, view and...

Published Thu, Dec 12 2010 1:33 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, microsoft, medicare, Health IT, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, software, Heatlhcare, Amalga, ACO, Norton Healthcare, Accountable Care Ogranization

Stolen Bristol-Myers Squibb Products–Truck Heist–When Are We Going to Bar Code Drugs and Medica Devices–Scan With Cell Phone

It keeps happening along with recalls, but nobody has done a thing and yet the technology is here to help. Eli Lilly Pill Heist in Connecticut – Worth a Few Million on the Black Market And Should Have Been “Tagged” for Identification To Help Identify...

Published Thu, Nov 11 2010 3:29 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, healthcare, microsoft, EHR, Surface, PHR, FDA, HealthVault, RFID, Heatlhcare, Safety, Microsoft Tags, Connected Conference, Heat Map, Bing, BristolMyers-Squibb

Quest Diagnostics Announces Free Ipad EHR Application–Download at the Apps Store

To use the application you need to be registered with Quest Diagnostics but the application is free. To view the demo video you can link here to see how it works. The graphics and screens look great. The formularies are listen within...

Published Tue, Nov 11 2010 2:47 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Tablet PCs, Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, microsoft, Health IT, PHR, HL7, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, MedPlus, Lab Results, Informed Patient, UCLA, Quest Diagnostics, Meaningful Use, HP, IPad

Germany launches Microsoft HealthVault Platform–Assignio A Siemens Licensee

Back in January of this year HeatlhVault was announced and now it looks like it is here for all to partake and get started. You can check out the link and there’s a bit about my chat with a German professor who wrote an EMR too, so we talked a lot...

Published Fri, Nov 11 2010 7:06 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, EMR, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, Health IT, PHR, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, Medical Tourism, Germany, Siemens, Prof. Dr. Horst Kunhardt, Assignio

San Francisco Dept. of Health Providing Electronic Medical Records for 800 Doctors With eClinical Works Medical Records

eClinicalWorks is one of the pioneers with bringing connectivity to EHRs and PHRs as I have covered before on the Quack. If you have been to a Minute Clinic at a CVS store, they use eClinical. eClinicalWorks connects to HeatlhVault too so...

Published Mon, Nov 11 2010 1:20 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Medical Records, San Francisco, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, Doctors, Hoag Hospital, Public Health, Minute Clinic, eClinicalWorks, Walmart, Meaningful Use, Little Clinic

HealthVault Coming To China With Joint Healthcare Effort in Wuxi–iSoftStone Developing HealthVault Platform

HealthVault from Microsoft takes one more international step with the development of the platform in China. We have seen some of this in the US with companies working with the “platform” and when connecting you will normally see “powered by HealthVault...

Published Fri, Oct 10 2010 2:18 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, microsoft, Medical Records, Medical Devices, Health IT, PHR, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, Heatlhcare, China, platform, iSoftStone

SureScripts Announces New Secure Exchange Network for Sharing of Medical Records

Eventually the fax will die and vendors like SureScripts are offering their new service to allow patient records to be shared security from one office to another. The example cites in the article talks about a patient that was waiting 3 days and...

Published Mon, Oct 10 2010 7:59 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, microsoft, EHR, Health IT, PHR, HL7, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, Lab Results, Informed Patient, Surescripts, Quest, medical records DOD

White House Makes Official Introduction of the “Blue Button”–Microsoft Demonstrates HealthVault Integration And Sharing

If you check in here once in a while you know there’s quite a bit about personal health records and HealthVault. I’m sure the video may be uploaded to YouTube soon so in the meantime I took a few screenshots of the highlights. First off by...

Published Sat, Oct 10 2010 2:37 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, EHR, Health IT, PHR, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, software, White House, Data, Surgeon General, consumers, Blue Button, digital consumer IT literacy

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