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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

State of the Union Message Was Clearly About Technology and Healthcare For Survival-Blackstone CEO Thoughts Are Positive from Davos (Video)

This was probably the most unique State of the Union message that I have heard and nice to hear all of the technology mentioned including healthcare too. As I watch the camera span the members it was interesting to watch faces and reactions and...

Published Wed, Jan 01 2011 7:56 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, medicare, VA, Medicaid, CMS, White House, personal heatlh records, Davos, Blue Button, Blackstone, State of the Nation

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

$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

Dr. David Brailer–US Health Czar Talks About “Getting” Your Personal Health Records & Physician/Hospital Medical Records

The point of the personal health records is to benefit the patient and the prime example he points to here are those with cancer or chronic diseases. Dr. David Brailer also talks about the slow process of getting their records together without a...

Published Fri, Oct 10 2010 7:42 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, medicare, EHR, PHR, Cancer, VA, Hospitals, Personal Health Records, Doctors, Patients, White House, treatments, mapgpie healthcare, Non participants, Blue Button

Medicare.Gov Blue Button Download For Personal Health Record Information for Those Covered by Medicare

If you have not visited the Medicare.Gov site recently, it’s worth a look and again like Healthcare.Gov it looks nothing like a traditional government website, which is a good thing in this case as it is very easy to navigate. If you are looking...

Published Wed, Oct 10 2010 8:21 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, healthcare, medicare, Health IT, PHR, VA, Personal Health Records, HHS, Excel, Blue Button, Medicare.Gov, MyMedicare.Gov, download

VA Can Now Use the “Blue Button” to Download Their Data from Their PHR (Personal Health Record)

The VA gets the first shot at giving this a try through the month of September. In October CMS will roll out the Blue Button download feature to be rolled our for those with Medicare and Medicaid. You can read more at the Blue Button Initiative...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2010 12:18 AM by The Medical Quack

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

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