This is a very important solution, leave the nurses alone when giving patients their medications, one big yellow strap around their chest, so high tech and low tech all come together in healthcare. BD Among other gadgets the center has studied are robots, face-recognition devices for accessing...
Some records are already online and will follow the Continuity of Care Document format. Back in June I had posted about the pilot program with Beth Israel Deaconess in Boston which has already been up and running for disability records , also the hospital offers patients personal health records...
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on 11-24-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, EHR, PHR, Health Records, VA, Kaiser Permanente, Social Security, Beth Israel Deaconess of Boston, Department of Defense
This ruling puts emergency physicians in a hard spot, but protects consumers. This goes back to the Prime/Kaiser scenario and more can be found under the related reading section here. There is a separate case pending with the California Supreme Court, so the matter is not closed yet by any means...
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on 11-23-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Hospital, health insurance, Health Care, Kaiser Permanente, Blue Cross, Balance Billing, Prime Healthcare, Venture Capital, Californa Medical Association, Insurance Reserves, Out of network care
For the Stark law to apply to allow hospitals to subsidize medical records for physicians, the software needs to be certified. Epic systems is probably best known for being the system used by Kaiser through out their networks of hospitals and clinics. Yesterday I had posted about PHRs also...
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on 11-12-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, EHR, PHR, Personal Health Records, Kaiser Permanente, integration, CMS, Epic, CCHIT, Stark Law
We all read the many articles about Kaiser and how they have successfully connected their locations and patient records, well that certainly presents a challenge to those concerns who compete and also want to provide the same or similar type of recordkeeping and services. This group has chosen to make...
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on 11-04-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, EMR, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, Kaiser Permanente, integration, Allscripts, Misys, IPA, CahRHIO, information interchange, RHIO
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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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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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