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Anyone foresee problems with my setting up a yahoo site with email as long as I state that it is not secure? I don't want all of the other stuff that comes with sites like Medfusion and relayHealth. Not that they are bad. I just want to keep it simple and less expensive.
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Im not an expert, but I imagine if you don't have any accessable personally indentifiable information (PII) or Individually Identifiable Health Information of any patients on the site, it should be fine.
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I worry most about emails going back and forth. I would store their email addresses on Outlook and I suppose that could be "broken into". The disclaimer would mention this as well.
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The VA uses Outlook as its email system so you should not get into trouble as long as it is set up correctly. When discussing patient info at the VA we have to use an encryption add on to Outlook to make it HIPAA compliant. I suspect you would have to use some type of encryption not to run into trouble with the feds.
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I use Plaxo to keep my Outlook Calendar, Contacts etc., in sync with multiple computers at work and home. I don't utilize the social networking features, I turn them all off, but I think you can set up Plaxo to share your Appointment Calendar and send emails to your patients, as long as they are Plaxo members. Utilizing the networking features of Plaxo with your patients, you could in effect offer a free portal with email, Calendar sharing appointments, etc.
http://support.plaxo.com/bin/answer.py?answer=71
Chris Wilkerson, D.C. Carson Doctors Group TabletPCs in Medicine Editor-in-Chief www.MedicalTabletPC.com Home: www.Digital-Doc.com
Outlook encription rings a bell. I think I looked at that a few years ago. Do you kow what the encription is called?
Plaxo - social networking - wonder if larger sized offices can do this around diseases. Of course, these exist already but it would be interesting to see if it would work at an office level.
DrK: Outlook encription rings a bell. I think I looked at that a few years ago. Do you kow what the encription is called? Plaxo - social networking - wonder if larger sized offices can do this around diseases. Of course, these exist already but it would be interesting to see if it would work at an office level.
>>wonder if larger sized offices can do this around diseases.<<
What specifically do you have in mind with respect to disease communication?
I know for a fact that you can share your Calendar with specific patients or everyone. In Plaxo, you can create and share a custom Calendar only for Appointments as well.
Since Plaxo has a free version, you should try it and find out. You only need share specific folders. Put it on your wife's computer too and you can, play Doctor and nurse, experiment with Doctor and patient communication.
"Outlook Connector," is another handy plugin that allows you to make a Calendar in Outlook and then sync it with your live.com account, that again can be shared. There are plenty of ways to create and utilize a free portal, leveraging existing free technology, especially if you have an existing website that can act as your GUI with instructions and links.
For example, using Windows Live Folder Sharing, you could have individual personal folders for each patient with pertinent disease information for their condition. In effect, you would have your own Health Vault that would be password protected for each patient folder. This could be done on your hard drive with no need to upload to a web site. Patients would access their own password protected folder on your hard drive, from their computer at home. Patients could also add their own information (if you allowed bilateral sync) and it would sync to their folder on your hard drive. Obviously there are caveats here but the point is that it is doable.