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One more entry into the the PHR system, but the one big issue here for me at least, is that I would be very reluctant to place all my records with a company in the business of risk management, thus I prefer Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault, as they service the enterprise and have no other areas...
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12-01-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, PHR, Google Health, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, Data Mining, Diagnosis, United HealthCare, ER, distractions, primary MD
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If you are one of many, well like all of us in the search for information relative to healthcare today, the self diagnosing trends are alive and well. With the wealth of information we have available, it is easy to do a little reading and self diagnose yourself with an entire multitude of diseases...
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11-30-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, PHR, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, Data Mining, Diagnosis, ER, distractions, primary MD, cyberchondria
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There’s a lot of truth to this study in more ways than one. Shoot I’m sitting around Twitter hoping to inspire some physicians, readers, PHDs, journalists, business leaders, business organizations, students, you name it, to just try a FREE PHR, and see what power is there and what they do. ...
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11-23-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Medical Records, Medical Devices, PHR, Personal Health Records, software, Caregivers, monitoring devices, Intrusive Technology, attitude
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Dr. Crounse from the Microsoft Health Blog shares some information about healthcare in Japan. I had also heard about the measuring of the employee waists somewhere else along the line and if you get too fat you’re employer is in trouble with the central health authority and can be fined, their...
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11-23-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, PHR, Google Health, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, obesity, Japan
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I spend quite a bit of time here posting about new developments and yes I have both a Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault account, I do comparisons, etc. I see many very prolific bloggers and journalists talking about PHRs too, but something that pops into mind here, do they have one? It sure...
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11-20-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Medical Records, medicare, PHR, Google Health, Clincal Trials, Personal Health Records, Health 2.0, Microsoft HealthVault
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When you look at the system, even folks like me who are not in the senior category have issues at times as the system, along with those in place by the insurers get more complicated every day, so what, who, and where still continue to be on the horizon for trying to figure out the complicated algorithms...
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11-19-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, medicare, Education, Personal Health Records, CMS, Seniors, commission, audits, PHR Pilot program
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This is just one more thought here and with IT budgets being back burnered and cut at the upper levels, if you are in a medical practice, some of the technology may be put on hold, so if you want to have credible records at the office for no cost, try the PHR and educate patients. Even if you do...
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There are many companies out there who have some very elaborate data bases and software to connect participants and investigators; however, what appears to be missing here is the patient and physician involvement at the point of care. When looking for new participants it makes perfect sense to...
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11-18-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, healthcare, Medical Records, PHR, Google Health, Clincal Trials, Personal Health Records, Health 2.0, Microsoft HealthVault
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This is a good pilot program but the real danger here is: “Each vendor will be responsible for marketing its program to consumers, and each has adopted its own privacy protections.” Once more the consumer will be subjected to additional marketing and thrown a bone to figure out which choice they feel...
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There’s probably no bigger fan of PHRs than yours truly here, but where’s the awareness and out reach here, it doesn’t exist. The technology is out there, but what good is it if nobody uses it or realizes the value. Consumers, much less doctors and clinical staff all over have not a clue...
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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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Well so much for certification, it sounds like CMS doesn’t care whether or not PHRs get certified (grin). It is almost an impossible task as well with all the areas of integration to cover, so certification could theoretically be done in perhaps just part of the program I think. So where...
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This is a real interesting merger with a biotech company patient-specific immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and other diseases of the immune system merging with a company that provides personal health records, both companies from California. Favrille is involved in clinical trials...
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Here are a few additional posts that have been posted by Fox and Reuters this week. There are several more published over the last few weeks, but here’s a few of the highlights for this week. The AARP story was the same post as featured on the Wall Street Journal. Senator opens investigation...
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11-06-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, PHR, Google Health, AARP, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, eprescribing, Medical Quack, NEPSI, Reuters, Fox News, DNA technology
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This actually a pretty good start and I have had my own campaign of sorts going on with getting the FDA up to speed, and they are definitely having to play catch up, as are some other government agencies. In prior posts I had written that some clinical studies were still being written in long hand...
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10-31-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, My Commentaries, healthcare, Education, Pharma, FDA, Personal Health Records, GSK, Consumer Healthcare, Drug Interactions