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$91 Million Prime Contract Awarded to Support Medical Record Sharing Veterans Affairs Beneficiaries–VLER-Lifetime Virtual Electronic Record Program– VA and DOD

The contract involves more work with integrating the VA and DOD medical records with all the data available. What is kind of interesting here is that is is work to ensure that no veteran has a delay of benefits when leaving the military. There...

Published Mon, Oct 10 2010 6:05 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Medical Records, VA, Personal Health Records, Heatlh IT, DOD, Standards, VLER, Blue Button, CACI

Office Ally Adds Medical Billing Services to Their Suite Of Free & Subscription Web Based Software & MDs Can Get Paid for E-Visits

A while back I wrote about the ability to get paid for emails with Office Ally and e-visits and now it looks like the latest offering here allows for all their software to be free of charge once you become a Medical Billing client and the patient gets...

Published Wed, Oct 10 2010 7:28 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Medical Records, Outlook, EHR, medical billing, PHR, Personal Health Records, Heatlh IT, software, clearinghouse services, consulting, billing, OfficeAlly, e-visits

The Estate Vault Partners With International Medical Fund Trust to Provide Personal Health Records to Facilitate Use with Medical Tourism

First there was HeatlhVault and now Estate Vault. I believe the Estate Vault has been around for a while and now is offering a hybrid type of product to work with consumers to help store and make personal health records available. There’s...

Published Thu, Jul 07 2010 1:59 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, PHR, Security, Personal Health Records, Heatlh IT, Medical Tourism, Servers, Data, Virgin Islands, Estate Vault

John Glaser VP and CIO of Partners Healthcare Leaving - New Job: CEO Siemens Health Services Business Unit

It sounds like Dr. Blumenthal might be looking for a new adviser soon, although there’s some time here as he doesn’t begin until August, but who knows a nice long vacation might be in order too but he won’t be that far away with going to Siemens. ...

Published Fri, Jun 06 2010 5:02 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, health insurance, CIO, Personal Health Records, Heatlh IT, Siemens, ONC, CHIME, Partners Healthcare, Blumental

Office Ally EHR Web Based Software A Simple and Easy Format And Opportunity to Get Paid for E-Visits

Office Ally has updated their information with some images of how their EHR appears for use. With all the talk today about simple and easy to use systems, this certainly looks to fit the bill here from what I can see. It looks pretty straight...

Published Thu, Apr 04 2010 7:37 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Medical Records, Outlook, EHR, PHR, Personal Health Records, Heatlh IT, software, clearinghouse services, consulting, billing, OfficeAlly, e-visits

CVS and AllScripts Collaborating on E-Prescribing – Minute Clinics Get Joint Commission Accreditation Award

You can read the press release here about the Joint Commission award. CVS obviously found that additional investments with software development may not be worth the dollars spent when it is easier to perhaps partner with a company focused in this...

Published Fri, Jan 01 2010 4:48 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, EHR, PHR, e-prescribing, Personal Health Records, Heatlh IT, software, Heatlhcare, Allscripts, CVS retail clinics, iScribe

Mayo Clinic Model of Care – Quality and Team Work At the Forefront

We all heard the President mention Mayo Clinic being an example for the rest of the system to explore and see what they are doing right. Much of the efficiencies revolve around Health IT, as mentioned below doctors can stay where they are and all...

Published Tue, Aug 08 2009 12:21 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Personal Health Records, Heatlh IT, Doctors, Mayo Clinic, Patients, Compensation, healthcare reform, providers, Quality, team efforts

Bankruptcy Trustee and Shuttered Hospital Dispute has 37,000 Patient Medical Records Unavailable to Doctors and Patients – All About Money and not Healthcare

With all the talk of recently having your medical records available, this one sure makes a case for it, and the need to set up a PHR, as the records would be available for patients to share if they had one, so hospital bankruptcy seems to be another good...

Published Sun, Jun 06 2009 5:39 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, EMR, Hospital, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, Physicians, PHR, Personal Health Records, Heatlh IT, bankruptcy, paper records, Coastside Family Medical, Half Moon Bay

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