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...
Through the program, all Medicare billing information will be populated in to a Personal Health Record. Where does this leave Google Health and the HealthVault? Can they participate? The key to the whole program is to pre-populate the information so the consumer has very little...
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...
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...
Personal health plans are moving forward with Blue Cross in Massachusetts joining the cause by providing information to be imported in to the PHR. This is just the start as I’m sure in the time this will be targeted to be a 2 way street, with insurers asking for other information from the patient...
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...