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Hat's off to the Wall Street Journal for mentioning this. Great topic and I'm going to rant and bring a few more details of this entire issue to light here. As any readers of this blog know I am a tech person that work with medical professionals and others to bring this to light and...
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Filed under: Tablet PCs, Medically Related, Technology, Windows Mobile, healthcare, Medical Records, Tablet PC, Google Health, FDA, clinical trials, HealthVault, Kaiser Permanente, Documentation
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A picture is worth 1000 words. I have recently had some conversations with health care clinicians, administrators, etc. about the Personal health records of Google and Microsoft Health Vault and this shows clearly how Beth Israel Deaconess has integrated the system with their own internal system...
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09-03-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, PHR, Personal Health Records, Kaiser Permanente, integration, Hosptial, Healthvaut, Beth Israel Deaconess of Boston
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In one group providers will migrate an existing personal health record offering to Microsoft HealthVault and expand usage, currently at about 1,400 patients, so patients will have their health records available to share at their discretion. Over in Dallas, patients will have the option to give...
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Genetic markers making their way to electronic medical records with locating potential patients through medical records to perhaps identify candidates that would benefit. Cerner is one of the larger software companies used by many hospitals in the US. A genetic test that would allow identification...
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Both the VA and Kaiser have been 2 of the real success stories with electronic medical records, and as we all read in the press while the transitioning was taking place, it was not a smooth road, there are bumps with implementing any medical records system, but the one thing the doctors had going at...
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This is one of those strange ones out of the coffer here , man bids $25.00 for the unknown contents of a storage unit and what in the world does he get, stacks of medical records!! Obviously paperless records were not on the agenda for Southwest Medical Association. Gee, is there no shame...
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Back in June I had posted some information about the use of this technology. Read the source article for more information on how the hospital is sending information to the Social Security Administration, and there is a simple text example on the page to view as well. Nice to have an update...
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This advice is from a family practice doctor, who went from a private practice to a group practice, moving up to over 1000 patients from a few hundred, it does make a difference, as she states even Marcus Welby only had a couple hundred or so patients to keep track of, and we all know the days of Marcus...
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This is a continuing post about "desperate hospitals" that I started last week. In light of the recent Medicare rules, audits, etc. some hospitals are just not making it. 50% of the hospitals in the country border on insolvency. Century City Hospital is not by any means in...
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08-22-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, EMR, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, Hospitals, bankruptcy, Chapter 11, Open Vista, Chapter 7
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This should come as no surprise as Dr. Halamka has posted about some of this technology in his own blog, which there is a link to on this site and you can also go here to read. Also in the news recently was the availability of another program used called Medpedia from the Medical School. ...
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If you are looking for a firm to help with consulting on the medical records business, here's a place to start. I know Dr. Fishman and his staff of experts can be of help in the process. BD Palm Beach Gardens, FL, August 16, 2008 --(PR.com)-- EMRConsultant.com is an online recommendation...
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If you belong to Kaiser in northern California, Stanford Medical will now be able to see your medical records for the purpose of studying heart disease. It doesn't say if the records will be anonimized or not. Stanford will have access to 3.3 million records to study what is working and...
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Congress had paved the way with relaxed Stark rules and regulations for subsidies to take place from the hospital level, but what's still wrong with this picture? It all comes right back around to money. Hospitals are not in a position to spend the money either, so now where do we go...
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08-11-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, EMR, Hospital, Kaiser, Medical Records, EHR, Start Laws, Epic, IT Health, Hospital Records
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Through the program, all Medicare billing information will be populated in to a Personal Health Record. Where does this leave Google Health and the HealthVault? Can they participate? The key to the whole program is to pre-populate the information so the consumer has very little...
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This is good news for the medical records business, or those that use SNOMED. The system helps create terminology that is used anywhere so diagnosis and other related information is the same, where ever it is read. BD The International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization...