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For the Stark law to apply to allow hospitals to subsidize medical records for physicians, the software needs to be certified. Epic systems is probably best known for being the system used by Kaiser through out their networks of hospitals and clinics. Yesterday I had posted about PHRs also...
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11-12-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, EHR, PHR, Personal Health Records, Kaiser Permanente, integration, CMS, Epic, CCHIT, Stark Law
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We all read the many articles about Kaiser and how they have successfully connected their locations and patient records, well that certainly presents a challenge to those concerns who compete and also want to provide the same or similar type of recordkeeping and services. This group has chosen to make...
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11-04-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, EMR, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, Kaiser Permanente, integration, Allscripts, Misys, IPA, CahRHIO, information interchange, RHIO
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When this technology came out, there were many questions about privacy, and the chip needs to have a facility with a “chip reader” as well, so to get everything going it does take some coordination. In the meantime, the PHR movement is moving quickly in some real positive directions as there is...
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10-24-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Medical Records, Health IT, PHR, Google, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, Kaiser Permanente, Kiosk, Health, Emergency Room, ER, Verichip
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More news on Personal Health Records from Kaiser (PHR). According to this press release, patients are having some real success with using the online tools to manage chronic care conditions. Soon, the records will have the capability to be exported to Microsoft HealthVault. The HealthVault...
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Other hospital systems are working to catch up. Just in the news recently was the pilot exchange of information between the VA and Kaiser. Also the PHR, personal health records, from HealthVault will be due to come on line soon, so patients will be able to transfer the information to their...
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10-21-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, Physicians, PHR, HL7, VA, Hospitals, Kaiser Permanente, Patients, KP Health Connect, pilot program
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In a related story from Forbes, as soon as the announcement was made, Tenet stocks rose. I guess if you are a hospital chain, it appears closing a hospital will raise the stock? Investors must see this as an opportunity for Tenet to make more money. Being local to Orange County, it is a...
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Three hospitals in the system preparing to integrate and connect with Kaiser facilities, as they will more than likely be seeing a few of their patients. This process is being done through a 3rd party offering HL7 and other transformations such as text/HL7. This is taking 2 different medical...
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10-02-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, EMR, Hospital, Medical Records, EHR, HL7, HIPAA, Kaiser Permanente, integration, Exempla
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Now this has become a legal issue with the State of California, can this stand with not covering Viagra? It might appear the jury is going to be out on this one for a while and there are other drugs that come in to play with HMO coverage. What is and what is not covered is becoming a big issue...
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Interchange and interoperability of medical records continues, this time with the Department of Defense and the VA. Just yesterday I posted about the exchange between Kaiser Permanente and the VA. The VA has also joined Internet 2 to become an active participant. Again, with...
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09-26-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, EHR, PHR, Health Records, VA, Kaiser Permanente, Social Security, Beth Israel Deaconess of Boston, Department of Defense
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Just yesterday I posted about the VA and Kaiser Permanente accomplishing a data interchange example . BD “This is a data to data transfer, and there is also the personal health record interface with Microsoft HealthVault as another alternative to getting information back and forth, whereby the...
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This was a demonstration of how information can and was shared between applications, Kaiser and the VA’s Vista system. With KP HealthConnect™, all physicians and patients have 24/7 access to medical records from the web so as this matures, the information exchange should become a simpler process...
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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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09-05-2008
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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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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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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...