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...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-14-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, medicare, Education, PHR, Google, Personal Health Records, Arizona, PHR Pilot program
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...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 08-11-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, healthcare, Medical Records, medicare, PHR, Google Health, HealthVault, Medicare contractor