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
From the IT side of things, I can’t agree more with all the additional administrative functions that appear in today’s medical practice, as a few years ago when I was writing code and creating a medical records program, much of what I was doing was looking for ways to automate some of this, to free the...
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on 10-30-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, My Commentaries, Physician, healthcare, EHR, Health IT, PHR, Personal Health Records, software, Internet, insurers, administration, Red tape, information overlaod, IT partner
Other hospital systems are working to catch up. Just in the news recently was the pilot exchange of information between the VA and Kaiser. Also the PHR, personal health records, from HealthVault will be due to come on line soon, so patients will be able to transfer the information to their...
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on 10-21-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, Physicians, PHR, HL7, VA, Hospitals, Kaiser Permanente, Patients, KP Health Connect, pilot program
The service states that you are usually connected to a physician within 30 minutes of either a phone call or logging on to the computer to setup a consultation. Charges are $59.00 for a consult. You do need to establish an account before using the service. It requires that you fill...
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on 10-12-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, EMR, Physician, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, PHR, Google, Google Health, Telemedicine, HealthVault, consultations, SwiftMD
The hospitals in San Diego all still share on paper. Technology is not the problem here, it has to do more with incentives, for one why would 2 competing hospitals want to share, and I say this from a business standpoint only, as reflected in the article. The next question is who...
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on 07-14-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, Hospital, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, PHR
This article does a good job in outlining the direction of the PHR, personal health record for those who have not caught up with the lingo yet. Do patients want it? As of now most probably don’t know what to do with it, agree. There are some cases though where this does not hold true, as...
How much information is on the web? Chances are there’s a lot more online that what you might think about. There are advantages and disadvantages. One advantage is that they are accessible anywhere with computer access. Privacy issues are still in the main stay though as we hear...