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Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts partners with Google Health

One more reason to think about a PHR, personal health record. Earlier today it was announced that United Healthcare was offering their own PHR, but this set up makes more sense to me, import your information from Blue Cross in to your Google Health...

Published Mon, Dec 12 2008 9:28 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, healthcare, Medical Records, Health IT, PHR, Google Health, Blue Cross, personal heatlh records, mentors

UnitedHealth Creates Personal Health Records With Online Health Venture

One more entry into the the PHR system, but the one big issue here for me at least, is that I would be very reluctant to place all my records with a company in the business of risk management, thus I prefer Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault, as...

Published Mon, Dec 12 2008 2:59 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, PHR, Google Health, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, Data Mining, Diagnosis, United HealthCare, ER, distractions, primary MD

Are electronic and personal health records inevitable? – Sure they are but we need education and mentors to make it work!

ZDNet just wrote about Dr. Kolodner and his recent report which is good, but we need more than reports. I have been doing a whole lot here reporting on reports! Can we move forward as I think we have won the battle that PHRs are worth their...

Published Tue, Nov 11 2008 3:26 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Microsoft/Windows News, My Commentaries, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, Health IT, PHR, Google Health, VA, personal heatlh records, Military Health Records, Department, mentors, education of Defense

Department of Defense and VA to migrate health records

This is interesting, which one will prevail? AHLTA has some nice dictation already built in with Dragon Naturally Speaking and this might be an area where the VISTA system will need some work a far as which one will prevail, but at any rate the...

Published Tue, Nov 11 2008 2:41 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

Improved Bluetooth Modules For Medical Devices

With both consumer and commercial medical devices, Bluetooth has become a preferred connection. I remember back to the early days of Bluetooth and we all used to sit around and wonder in the Windows Mobile group where Bluetooth was going to somehow...

Published Tue, Nov 11 2008 11:58 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Windows Mobile, Medical Records, EHR, Medical Devices, Health IT, PHR, Google Health, personal health record, Healthcre, Bluetooth

Healthcare in Japan Today

Dr. Crounse from the Microsoft Health Blog shares some information about healthcare in Japan. I had also heard about the measuring of the employee waists somewhere else along the line and if you get too fat you’re employer is in trouble with the...

Published Sun, Nov 11 2008 3:25 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, PHR, Google Health, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, obesity, Japan

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

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