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This will be interesting to see which direction this may go, as today, we certainly have so many modules of code that have already been written and portions of one module could be combined with others. Just earlier this year Mayo announced working with Microsoft Health Vault for Personal Health...
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Another updated video on the interface, again it would be nice to have the same visuals at every hospital and perhaps doctor’s offices with the existing programs still running in the background, only the user interface would need to change. This video takes a little extra time to walk through the...
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11-19-2008
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One advantage to having electronic medical records, you won’t find them washing up on shore, wet, and potentially destroyed, and they are backed up usually in more than one location. BD MACHIAS, Maine — Records that were stolen from the Down East Community Hospital have been found after washing...
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One more hospital provided integrated services for physicians on staff and 40 with practice management software from the hospital. Edward Health Service Corporation Selects Allscripts Electronic Health Record and Practice Management CHICAGO and NAPERVILLE, Ill., Nov. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ ...
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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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Healthcare and the way it is practices has certainly changed over the last few years, no doubt about it. Technology though is not the reason to blame in it’s entirety though, it’s the other stuff that goes along with others initializing technology and software benefits that hits below the belt...
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11-18-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, healthcare, Medical Records, medicare, Congress, Medicaid, software, Patient Advocacy, Health Insuance, Point of Care, Physician Overload
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We all long for the day that all practices and hospitals can transmit medical records and talk to each other, but as we all know it is not there yet and will continue to evolve, and add on today’s economic crisis, something that is already slowing down the wheels of progress here. But, the PHR...
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11-16-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, Health IT, PHR, Google Health, VA, Department of Defense, personal heatlh records, Military Health Records
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If you have read this blog long enough, there are multiple posts about The Common User Interface, an open source project from Microsoft that would in fact have the capabilities to present the same set of templates, data entry screens, etc. at all hospitals and physician offices. The NHS in the...
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11-14-2008
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Personalized Medicine will create many answers and solutions in healthcare, but will we have the money to afford it? I post quite a bit about genomics and personalized medicine on the blog here and the one thing it has in common with the rest of healthcare is cost. The success of personalized...
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11-14-2008
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This is an update on a post from a few days ago, now the target date looks to be in December, and don’t quote me for sure, but you can almost bet their will be some interoperability built in when completed. BD From a few days ago: Microsoft is lead developer on military Personal Health Records...
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11-14-2008
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This is a little different and the next phase with using a PHR (personal health record) to bring patients and physicians together in working with chronic disease treatments and plans. The Cleveland Clinic will enroll 400 participants and their physicians and provide devices for the patients to...
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11-10-2008
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Good article from Dr. Halamka at Beth Israel Medical Center/Harvard in Boston, talking about the positives and money saved by using speech recognition. One other item to mention here from my side of the coin, it makes creating blog entries a lot easier too, and yet I use it! There are more...
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11-07-2008
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If you have been reading this blog of late, there have been many posts about personal health records, and now it seems those 2 companies that everyone seems to worry about related to security with PHRs, Microsoft and Google, are now working on a project with the military to create a personal health records...
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11-05-2008
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The program is designated for start up companies, and we have plenty of those in healthcare. You do need to qualify, but the website is pretty complete with instructions, information etc. You need to be in business for 3 years or less and have revenues of under a million, so that leaves...
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11-05-2008
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