Paradigms are changing in healthcare, rapidly. Here’s one perfect example from a post that I had in October 2007, where the CEO of Aetna was calling Google Health and HealthVault “Vaporware” from an article in the Wall Street Journal. Well if you have followed this blog since that...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 12-07-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, My Commentaries, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, health insurance, Health IT, PHR, Google Health, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, Aetna, paradigms
I will say once more it looks like we are slowly getting over this privacy issue that has had everyone tied up in a knot for so long and with MiCare, the records can all be ported over into Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault, so if you don’t think PHRs are a hot ticket right now to getting better...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 12-06-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Microsoft/Windows News, microsoft, PHR, Google Health, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, integration, DOD, Department of Defense, ALTHA, miliary health records
One more reason to think about a PHR, personal health record. Earlier today it was announced that United Healthcare was offering their own PHR, but this set up makes more sense to me, import your information from Blue Cross in to your Google Health Record, in other words you are still in control...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 12-01-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, healthcare, Medical Records, Health IT, PHR, Google Health, Blue Cross, personal heatlh records, mentors
One more entry into the the PHR system, but the one big issue here for me at least, is that I would be very reluctant to place all my records with a company in the business of risk management, thus I prefer Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault, as they service the enterprise and have no other areas...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 12-01-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, PHR, Google Health, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, Data Mining, Diagnosis, United HealthCare, ER, distractions, primary MD
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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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-18-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, healthcare, Medical Records, PHR, Google Health, Clincal Trials, Personal Health Records, Health 2.0, Microsoft HealthVault
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...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-06-2008
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
$9.99 for 90 days with enrollment with the Health Savings Pass CVS becomes the latest retail drug chain to jump on the bandwagon, pretty close in comparison, except you need to join the Health Savings Plan. The plan is primarily created for cash patients but anyone can benefit so if you have a...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-31-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, PHR, Google Health, Prescriptions, Generic Drugs, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, CVS, Discounts, Minute Clinic