Hospitals and doctors do not get paid until they provide a service, so monitoring a patient remotely has not been set up with the “codes” for payment as of yet, but who knows how this could change down the road if insurers begin to compensate physicians and hospitals to monitor patient activity electronically...
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on 11-04-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, health insurance, Medical Devices, PHR, Heart Disease, Blood Pressure, Diabetes, HealthVault, Risk Management, Big Brother, American Heart Association, personal heatlh records, Remote monitoring
One more partner for the Microsoft HealthVault, press release below. Contrary to all it seems to be the last couple days of posts, this is not a total PHR blog. There has been a lot of news in this area and I just wanted to make sure all were aware that other news will continue to be posted...
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on 10-22-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, health insurance, PHR, Personal Health Records, Aetna, Informed Patient
Even though he was not able to attend personally, modern technology of video conferencing made it possible for the Senator to continue his efforts and participation. As fuel prices continue to rise, along with just general state of the economy, video conferencing is finally coming of age. ...
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on 09-22-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Microsoft/Windows News, My Commentaries, healthcare, microsoft, Cancer, Congress, Senate, Senator Kennedy, Skype, Video Conferencing
This is already offered under the GE portal for secure messaging and document management...now GE will exclusively sell Script Messenger , integrated with GE Centricity software and Kryptiiq will no longer sell E-prescribing services to other ambulatory EHR companies... Kryptiq is also a Microsoft Health...
Sugar CRM is an open source/purchase CRM application. Good to see CRM making it's way in health care...it is needed and saves time and effort...reports and real time information and graphs only a few clicks away. BD The State of Oregon Department of Human Services used SugarCRM to manage Medicaid...
Great article! Sure he potentially uses some far-fetched examples, but makes some very good points about technology...word to the wise here...it's been developed and some of these efforts are rapidly finding their way into our every day lives.. .a little bit at a time... but integration of how and...
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on 03-17-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, Windows Mobile, Microsoft/Windows News, My Commentaries