Hospitals and clinics are connecting in Hawaii. Pacific Health consists of 4 hospitals and several clinics. Patients will now be able to log on and have their own PHR with lab results, get refills and communicate via email with their physicians. If you look at the image, the...
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With all the talk of recently having your medical records available, this one sure makes a case for it, and the need to set up a PHR, as the records would be available for patients to share if they had one, so hospital bankruptcy seems to be another good reason for exploring this option. The folks in...
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This is an interesting post and one thing I found odd that was not mentioned was using a PHR, personal health record. Both Google Health and HealthVault once the physician has given the ok can get their own lab results in their personal health record. Granted this won’t cover all lab results...
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Two of the biggest causes today for medical errors are lack of information and distraction, yes distraction can very well do it. As we are all so much busier today with tough economic times and the additional flow of information to handle, we need “good filters”, as earlier in another post I had...
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The conference is being held later this year, and April certainly can bear a little bit better weather for Chicago than February. “ Keep your schedule on track for HIMSS09 in Chicago from April 4-8, 2009. The 2009 Annual HIMSS Conference & Exhibition comes just 5 weeks later than last year's...
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