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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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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Medical Records, PHR, GE, HealthVault, integration, Mayo Clinic, Pittsburgh, Montefiore, UPMC
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If you are a participating physician, you just log on and wait for the patients to connect, pretty simple on that end. Health plans pay American Well a license fee per member to use the software, as well as a transaction fee of about $2 a patient each time a patient sees a doctor. This system...
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11-19-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Physician, PHR, HealthVault, doctor, WebCam, Heatlh Insurance, personal heatlh records, webcam consultations, American Well, remote consults
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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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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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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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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, Health IT, PHR, Google Health, VA, Department of Defense, personal heatlh records, Military Health Records
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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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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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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, Physician, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, PHR, Health Records, HealthVault, integration, Cleveland Clinic, Microsoft HealthVault, blood pressure monitors, glucose monitors, Chronic disease
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The general public as a whole are lost when it comes to the complete understanding of how a clinical trial can benefit their potential treatment plans. There is enough information on the web by all means, but how do you get the information to an individual and explain both the potential benefits...
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11-07-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, drugs, healthcare, EHR, Pharma, PHR, clinical trials, Software integration, Point of Care, Personalized 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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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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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, Health IT, PHR, Google Health, VA, Department of Defense, personal heatlh records, Military Health Records
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The Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (MAeHC), has to be one of the very early readers of the Medical Quack and I have featured their press releases as they have moved along, and the president was the Keynote speaker. Dr. Halamka is featured all over the blog here as he is such an important voice...
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11-04-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Medical Records, EHR, PHR, Google Health, e-prescribing, integration, personal health record, Healthcre, eClinicalWorks
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Hospitals and doctors do not get paid until they provide a service, so monitoring a patient remotely has not been set up with the “codes” for payment as of yet, but who knows how this could change down the road if insurers begin to compensate physicians and hospitals to monitor patient activity electronically...
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11-04-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, health insurance, Medical Devices, PHR, Heart Disease, Blood Pressure, Diabetes, HealthVault, Risk Management, Big Brother, American Heart Association, personal heatlh records, Remote monitoring
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This is a great abstract discussing electronic medical records. Dr. Tim Sturgill, an emergency room physician put this together, as the emergency room MD would be at the top of the list to want credible patient records, as some patients may only be seen once at the facility, especially if traveling...
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Sure Scripts has a wealth of information available and I have summarized a portion of some of the important facts here. You can also use .png?imgmax=800" width="197" height="126" alt="" /> the interactive map found here to see which pharmacies participate in your zip code or state area. Most...
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11-02-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, EMR, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, PHR, e-prescribing, FDA, Pharmacies, DEA, Sure Scripts, federal disasters, Emergency medicine, ICER.org