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Hard hat area: The state project is aligned with the federal NHIN standards. Last month 15 organizations received grants to begin electronically sending Social Security disability claims via the National Health Information Network. As I understand the California infrastructure would...
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We have one more new entry into the PHR business and this service will send messages to your cell phone to remind you when to take your pills. We are talking about “compliance” once more. Again, you can share this information with whom you delegate. Caregivers and family members can...
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03-12-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, Health IT, PHR, Personal Health Records, software, cell phones, Heatlhcare, Medications, text messages, RememberItNow
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I first posted about the project back in September of 2008 and CMS is now extending the pilot program. You can view the demo pages here that show the various screens available for the patients. What is nice is to be able to search Medicare claims to see what is being processed and what...
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03-12-2010
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The Happy Hospitalist blog tells of his own experience in getting records from Walter Reed Hospital, and as you can see, it’s a long time. He’s treating a patient who had surgery there 3 years ago and needs the information to provide a treatment plan for the hospital. This is very good work...
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03-12-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Medical Records, EHR, Blogs, PHR, Hospitalist, Patient, Personal Health Records, Treatment, military, healthcare reform, Walter Reed Hospital, Happy Hospitalist, search, aggregation, utilization
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This is good, I have said the Executive Branch is moving right along with technology, can’t say the same for the House and Senate. The House expects their wireless project to take 3 years as an example. It looks like they get speech recognition too. A couple years ago I was given a nice tour...
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03-09-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, PHR, AHLTA, Personal Health Records, integration, Speech Recognition, White House, military
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This was a survey taken before the big consumer electronics show in Hanover, Germany started. I guess this could mean some potential sales for the folks at PositiveID who manufacture the chip and the software that now allows reporting to personal health records. I’m not ready for a chip yet...
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This is a smart move to create additional algorithmic formulas to analyze labs along with medications being taken. For a simple example I am estimating based on a particular lab result, certain drugs would not be advisable treatment and on the other side of the coin labs may be needed to combine...
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03-04-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, healthcare, microsoft, EHR, Health IT, PHR, Google Health, HL7, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, MedPlus, Lab Results, Informed Patient, Quest Diagnostics, Surescripts
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If you are a regular reader here, then you know I am a Tags Fan. This is the next phase of Microsoft Tags in working with RazCode to upload information to your Personal Health Record. I started this post a while back and Dossia has now been added so you will not see the name in a couple screenshots...
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03-04-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, microsoft, health insurance, Medical Devices, PHR, FDA, Personal Health Records, cell phones, HealthIT, EOB, Microsoft Tags, RazCode, scan, Barcode
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Anyone that works in Healthcare IT knows who John Halamka is and so of course I was interested in his post of his top 10 impressions after HIMSS. It’s an interesting list and I think he does a pretty good job of looking at things from a very high...
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03-04-2010
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Filed under: HealthCare IT, EMR, EHR, HIMSS, PHR, Certified EHR, Meaningful Use, John Halamka, Electronic Health Record, Electronic Medical Record, CCD, CDA, HIMSS 10, MModal, Self Service Kiosks, Cloud Computing
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My very first meeting with a vendor at HIMSS was with NoMoreClipboard. I’d known of them for quite a while, but never really took them seriously before. After meeting with them, I was really impressed with what they’re trying to do in the...
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03-02-2010
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The pilot will start out with a small trial and will graduate to a larger trial based on chronic disease control medications, diabetes, cholesterol, and high blood pressure. Some of the comments in the article stated the messages were annoying but some didn’t mind. The results will be interesting...
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03-02-2010
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Filed under: Technology, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, EMR, drugs, healthcare, Pharma, PHR, Prescriptions, Fines, personal health record, Express Scripts, overcharges, Vitality
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I first posted about the project back November of 2008 and now we are beginning to see some numbers result. The Epic records system used by Cleveland Clinic connects to Microsoft HeatlhVault and thus the patients have the flexibility of adding information via HealthVault and sending it to MyChart...
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03-01-2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, Medical Devices, PHR, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, Cleveland Clinic, Document management, E-faxing, Epic Medical Records, truck driver, MyChart
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There’s a lot of information coming from HIMMS today and Quest Diagnostics is offering 90 Day trials on some of their web based products. Last year I had the opportunity to talk with Rohit Nayak, Vice President of Sales with MedPlus and he was able to fill me in on what was to come, including the...
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03-01-2010
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HealthVault Personal Health Records and SharePoint Server will be getting much better acquainted in the 3rd quarter this year. As you can read in the press release below, HealthVault is expanding it’s capabilities and the ability to further integrate and provide interoperability for patients with...
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03-01-2010
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If you are attending the HIMMS convention, here’s some of what you can expect to see at the Microsoft booth(s), which is always busy. If you want to read up about how Amalga is working in healthcare, here’s a link below to an interview I did last year with Steve Shihadeh. You can always search this blog...
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02-26-2010
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Filed under: Tablet PCs, Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, Health IT, Surface, PHR, Mobility, HealthVault, HIMMS, Amalga