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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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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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From the IT side of things, I can’t agree more with all the additional administrative functions that appear in today’s medical practice, as a few years ago when I was writing code and creating a medical records program, much of what I was doing was looking for ways to automate some of this, to free the...
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10-30-2008
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Does Healthcare need Twitter? Well Twitter can sure use some additional healthcare folks. When I began using Twitter I didn’t give it much thought and actually didn’t know what the real purpose was of letting others know where you are or simply typing in an update. Well enter RSS feeds and...
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10-24-2008
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So now one can order up and set up your time with a local lab, which is referenced on the site and in my area here it listed LabCorp locations as they are listed as a partner. This really is becoming a help yourself world when you need to order up your own and can even pay online. What else...
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10-23-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, Physician, healthcare, PHR, Patient, Personal Health Records, LabCorp, MIB, Lab testing, Patient Service Centers, Digital Lab Order
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The service states that you are usually connected to a physician within 30 minutes of either a phone call or logging on to the computer to setup a consultation. Charges are $59.00 for a consult. You do need to establish an account before using the service. It requires that you fill...
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10-12-2008
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It was just back in March that MediNotes purchased Bond technologies so the consolidation of technologies in the medical records business continues. Rebranding to take place in time and this will add to the portfolio of ambulatory EHR products as I am guessing the MediNotes component might have...
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09-19-2008
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This is something I mention quite frequently. Here's a site whereby e-Patients can now compare notes on how to be a good e-Patient. BD The person who has the most at stake when it comes to healthcare decisions-the patient-should be involved in research, advocacy and all segments...
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Not too many years ago I remembered hearing the term “hospitalist” and asked what’s that? The hospitalist has evolved and is now one of the top growing professions. With Pharmacogenomics, we might be on the verge of a new specialty, a “Longevity Doctor”. We already have a dwindling...
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I agree here with the context, with all the information that is flying at all of us at a speed of more than most of us can fathom half the time, how can a physician expect to keep on top of all of this as well? The mind is not as good as a computer for retaining information and when used as a ...
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This is what healthcare is all about today, being able to have access and share vital information, thus avoiding having to look through more than one file or data base to bring it all together under one roof. As time progresses on, integration is the key with electronic medical records becoming...
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Medical Economics discusses the issue, and one comment I have to add on my own and one of my own personal pet peeves, is that people do not read. Anyone that has spent enough time around me will probably say that I am a broken record in this area, but it is so very true, and I’m not just talking...
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When will it start paying the bills? The science and development is somewhat fragmented like the rest of health care, and this is not to say in any way that phenomenal breakthroughs are not occurring by any means as they are. Part of the problem is having enough data, real time data for one...
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07-03-2008
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The “Informed patient” did his homework and found a solution -he found the “Informed MD” or neurosurgeon in this case. What are “Informed Patients looking for these days, the “Informed MD”. So far, after the procedure, he’s happy. It doesn’t hurt today to be “read up” both from the...
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Home health care takes one more step to be connected with the patient’s physician. Through the security network, physicians can now communicate reminders, notes, etc. and receive alerts when the patient’s data is out of tolerance. Many physicians are now starting to make more house calls...