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Health Clouds Forming in California – State HIE (Health Information Exchange) ONC Grant

Hard hat area: The state project is aligned with the federal NHIN standards. Last month 15 organizations received grants to begin electronically sending Social Security disability claims via the National Health Information Network. ...

Published Wed, Mar 03 2010 2:16 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, Health IT, PHR, Grants, California, personal heatlh records, Schwarzenegger, ONC, Cal eConnect, hopsitals, infrastruture

RememberItNow! Web Based Program and PHR – Text Messages and Emails Sent for Medication Reminders

We have one more new entry into the PHR business and this service will send messages to your cell phone to remind you when to take your pills. We are talking about “compliance” once more. Again, you can share this information with whom you...

Published Fri, Mar 03 2010 7:37 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, Health IT, PHR, Personal Health Records, software, cell phones, Heatlhcare, Medications, text messages, RememberItNow

CMS Extends Medicare-Tricare PHR Pilot Test MyPHRSC – Personal Health Records

I first posted about the project back in September of 2008 and CMS is now extending the pilot program. You can view the demo pages here that show the various screens available for the patients. What is nice is to be able to search Medicare...

Published Fri, Mar 03 2010 4:06 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Medical Records, medicare, PHR, Personal Health Records, CMS, HealthIT, DOD, TriCare, MyPHRSC, Medicare PHR Choice, pilot

Hospitalist Requests Records from Walter Reed Hospital Response: "You Can Expect Your Medical Records in 21 Days"

The Happy Hospitalist blog tells of his own experience in getting records from Walter Reed Hospital, and as you can see, it’s a long time. He’s treating a patient who had surgery there 3 years ago and needs the information to provide a treatment...

Published Fri, Mar 03 2010 2:39 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Medical Records, EHR, Blogs, PHR, Hospitalist, Patient, Personal Health Records, Treatment, military, healthcare reform, Walter Reed Hospital, Happy Hospitalist, search, aggregation, utilization

The White House Gets An EHR – A Version of ALTHA Developed by the Military

This is good, I have said the Executive Branch is moving right along with technology, can’t say the same for the House and Senate. The House expects their wireless project to take 3 years as an example. It looks like they get speech recognition...

Published Tue, Mar 03 2010 11:02 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, PHR, AHLTA, Personal Health Records, integration, Speech Recognition, White House, military

One Quarter of Germans Would Embrace an Implantable Microchip – 72% Said Absolutely Not

This was a survey taken before the big consumer electronics show in Hanover, Germany started. I guess this could mean some potential sales for the folks at PositiveID who manufacture the chip and the software that now allows reporting to personal...

Published Fri, Mar 03 2010 12:23 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Medical Devices, PHR, Google Health, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, PositiveID, devices that report data, CeBIT

Quest Diagnostics and Surescripts To Integrate Lab and Prescription Algorithms To Improve Safety and Outcomes

This is a smart move to create additional algorithmic formulas to analyze labs along with medications being taken. For a simple example I am estimating based on a particular lab result, certain drugs would not be advisable treatment and on the other...

Published Thu, Mar 03 2010 6:32 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, healthcare, microsoft, EHR, Health IT, PHR, Google Health, HL7, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, MedPlus, Lab Results, Informed Patient, Quest Diagnostics, Surescripts

Connecting HealthVault/Google Health and More to RazCode Encrypted Microsoft Tags – Automate Data Input

If you are a regular reader here, then you know I am a Tags Fan. This is the next phase of Microsoft Tags in working with RazCode to upload information to your Personal Health Record. I started this post a while back and Dossia has now been...

Published Thu, Mar 03 2010 1:38 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, microsoft, health insurance, Medical Devices, PHR, FDA, Personal Health Records, cell phones, HealthIT, EOB, Microsoft Tags, RazCode, scan, Barcode

Express Scripts Pilot To Begin Testing the Glow Cap Wireless Pill Container – Wireless Medication Monitoring

The pilot will start out with a small trial and will graduate to a larger trial based on chronic disease control medications, diabetes, cholesterol, and high blood pressure. Some of the comments in the article stated the messages were annoying but...

Published Tue, Mar 03 2010 2:17 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Technology, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, EMR, drugs, healthcare, Pharma, PHR, Prescriptions, Fines, personal health record, Express Scripts, overcharges, Vitality

Cleveland Clinic/Microsoft Study Case Study Released – Disease Management with Patient/Physician Connectivity Through PHR and Wireless Devices Reporting Data

I first posted about the project back November of 2008 and now we are beginning to see some numbers result. The Epic records system used by Cleveland Clinic connects to Microsoft HeatlhVault and thus the patients have the flexibility of adding information...

Published Mon, Mar 03 2010 3:09 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, Medical Devices, PHR, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, Cleveland Clinic, Document management, E-faxing, Epic Medical Records, truck driver, MyChart

Quest Diagnostics Offering 90 Day Free Trial for Care 360 EHR and ePrescribing

There’s a lot of information coming from HIMMS today and Quest Diagnostics is offering 90 Day trials on some of their web based products. Last year I had the opportunity to talk with Rohit Nayak, Vice President of Sales with MedPlus and he was able...

Published Mon, Mar 03 2010 12:31 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, microsoft, EHR, Health IT, PHR, HL7, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, MedPlus, Lab Results, Informed Patient, Quest Diagnostics

Microsoft HealthVault Community To Connect With Patients and Referring Physicians – Will Enable Hospitals to Share Health information with Patients and Referring Doctors

HealthVault Personal Health Records and SharePoint Server will be getting much better acquainted in the 3rd quarter this year. As you can read in the press release below, HealthVault is expanding it’s capabilities and the ability to further integrate...

Published Mon, Mar 03 2010 11:29 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, EMR, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, PHR, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, HealthIT, HIMMS, Eclipsys, Sunrise Pharmacy Software, Sunrise Enterprise, SharePoint Server

Microsoft Technologies for Connecting Patients, Physicians and Providers at HIMSS 2010

If you are attending the HIMMS convention, here’s some of what you can expect to see at the Microsoft booth(s), which is always busy. If you want to read up about how Amalga is working in healthcare, here’s a link below to an interview I did last year...

Published Fri, Feb 02 2010 11:11 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Tablet PCs, Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, Health IT, Surface, PHR, Mobility, HealthVault, HIMMS, Amalga

PositiveID Corporation's Health Link Personal Health Record – First PHR to Communicate Real-Time Blood Sugar Readings for Diabetics and Their Caregivers/Physicians

In case you need a little refreshing from the past, this company was formerly named VeriChip, the implanted chip people. You can see from a fairly recent post below that their “implanted chip” now talks with Google Health and HealthVault. ...

Published Fri, Feb 02 2010 1:19 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, health insurance, Medical Devices, PHR, Google Health, Diabetes, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, Glucose, breathing, PositiveID, devices that report data, IGlucose, FIS

Medical Informatics Engineering (MIE) Partners with the American College of Cardiology With PHR and Pinnacle Registry Integration

The American College of Cardiology (ACC) created the PINNACLE Registry™, an office based quality improvement program based on proven guidelines. The PINNACLE registry was designed by cardiologists and integrates with Medical Informatics CCHIT certified...

Published Thu, Feb 02 2010 12:02 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, Cardiology, PHR, Personal Health Records, CCHIT, American College of Cardiology, Medical Informatics Engineering, WebChart EHR, minimally invasive, Pinnacle Registry, MIE

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