When this technology came out, there were many questions about privacy, and the chip needs to have a facility with a “chip reader” as well, so to get everything going it does take some coordination. In the meantime, the PHR movement is moving quickly in some real positive directions as there is...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-24-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Medical Records, Health IT, PHR, Google, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, Kaiser Permanente, Kiosk, Health, Emergency Room, ER, Verichip
More news on Personal Health Records from Kaiser (PHR). According to this press release, patients are having some real success with using the online tools to manage chronic care conditions. Soon, the records will have the capability to be exported to Microsoft HealthVault. The HealthVault...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-24-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Microsoft/Windows News, PHR, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, Kaiser Permanente, email physicians, online appointments
Hat's off to the Wall Street Journal for mentioning this. Great topic and I'm going to rant and bring a few more details of this entire issue to light here. As any readers of this blog know I am a tech person that work with medical professionals and others to bring this to light and...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 09-05-2008
Filed under: Tablet PCs, Medically Related, Technology, Windows Mobile, healthcare, Medical Records, Tablet PC, Google Health, FDA, clinical trials, HealthVault, Kaiser Permanente, Documentation
The competition for being “connected” with personal health records continues. Earlier this year Google made their announcements and this agreement with Kaiser looks to be pretty substantial. The key now is to encourage more consumers to take an interest in their health and establish a PHR...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 06-09-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, Medical Records, EHR, Microsoft Healthcare, Electronic Medical Records, PHR, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, Kaiser Permanente