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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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
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
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
$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
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 Human audit trail has arrived or I should say will arrive in January. Will we someday all be walking around with a device like this clipped to our clothing? This looks like an item that could be integrated in to one of the online Personal Healthcare Records programs as a next step . ...
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on 10-12-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Medical Records, health insurance, PHR, Google Health, HealthVault, software, fitness monitoring, Fitness, Big Brother, Employer health InsuranceInsurance
When you stop and think about it, there are some real similarities here. Anyone who has ever purchased property knows what an Escrow account is. It is a third party used to to hold money and release it to fund a loan, until everything is verified and the loan process completes. Personal...