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
Among the items discussed was how IT technology can help with saving money with health care, connecting the patient to the information resources needed. Aetna states there are misconceptions about profits from insurers , that only 6% is a profit margin, well compared to many other industries...