If you are a participating physician, you just log on and wait for the patients to connect, pretty simple on that end. Health plans pay American Well a license fee per member to use the software, as well as a transaction fee of about $2 a patient each time a patient sees a doctor. This system...
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on 11-19-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Physician, PHR, HealthVault, doctor, WebCam, Heatlh Insurance, personal heatlh records, webcam consultations, American Well, remote consults
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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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
This is a good pilot program but the real danger here is: “Each vendor will be responsible for marketing its program to consumers, and each has adopted its own privacy protections.” Once more the consumer will be subjected to additional marketing and thrown a bone to figure out which choice they feel...
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on 11-14-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, medicare, Education, PHR, Google, Personal Health Records, Arizona, PHR Pilot program
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...
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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
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
Sure Scripts has a wealth of information available and I have summarized a portion of some of the important facts here. You can also use .png?imgmax=800" width="197" height="126" alt="" /> the interactive map found here to see which pharmacies participate in your zip code or state area. Most...
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on 11-02-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, EMR, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, PHR, e-prescribing, FDA, Pharmacies, DEA, Sure Scripts, federal disasters, Emergency medicine, ICER.org
$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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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