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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

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

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

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

New York and New Jersey Residents – Access to Telemedicine with Swift MD

The service states that you are usually connected to a physician within 30 minutes of either a phone call or logging on to the computer to setup a consultation. Charges are $59.00 for a consult. You do need to establish an account before...

Published Sun, Oct 10 2008 2:27 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, EMR, Physician, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, PHR, Google, Google Health, Telemedicine, HealthVault, consultations, SwiftMD

The Human Audit Trail to automatically track your fitness and sleep and a few other things…

The Human audit trail has arrived or I should say will arrive in January. Will we someday all be walking around with a device like this clipped to our clothing? This looks like an item that could be integrated in to one of the online Personal...

Published Sun, Oct 10 2008 1:05 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Medical Records, health insurance, PHR, Google Health, HealthVault, software, fitness monitoring, Fitness, Big Brother, Employer health InsuranceInsurance

CCHIT Offers PHR Web Site – Personal Health Records

This might be of interest if you want to learn about the certification process of Personal Health Records, also known as a PHR. Medical record software used by physicians and hospitals have gone through the process for a number of years, in other...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2008 11:51 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, microsoft, Medical Records, PHR, Google Health, clinical trials, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, CCHIT

Healthcare leaders favor personal networks (Personal Health Records) to RHIOs for data exchange

If you are not familiar with the term RHIO ( regional health information organization ) this is the efforts of communities working together to make medical records talk to each other and exchange information in simple terms. Personal Health...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2008 3:43 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, PHR, Google Health, HealthVault

Google Opens Doors to Knol – Online Encyclopedia - Open for Contributions...

If you are familiar with Wikipedia , Knol will be no problem to understand and work with. There are a few changes though with authors not being anonymous with their entries as is the case with Wikipedia. They would like real names, but that...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2008 3:13 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Health Care, Google, Google Health, Encyclopedia

Google Maps Disease Outbreaks

Nice from Google, a picture is worth 1000 words, still holds true. This site also removes duplicate information and drills down to show a picture of where disease outbreaks are across the world. Could be helpful if one is planning to travel...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2008 1:44 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Disease Research, Google Health

Quest Diagnostics and Google Empower Patients and Physicians to Share Diagnostic Test Results Online

Many physicians are already connected with Quest Labs. You can find out from the website or by asking your physician if he/she is connected. With Google Health, your physician can transfer your labs to your health account. This page has a number of FAQs...

Published Mon, May 05 2008 12:02 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, Labs, Health IT, Google Health, Quest Labs

Google Health Records are Here....

I haven't even begun to start with the Health Vault for myself...now there's Google, so here goes...I am already signed up with Google for a number of online services, including this blog, so the creation of the file was pretty simple and effortless...

Published Mon, May 05 2008 3:13 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Medical Records, Health IT, PHR, Google, Health Records, Google Health

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