Three hospitals in the system preparing to integrate and connect with Kaiser facilities, as they will more than likely be seeing a few of their patients. This process is being done through a 3rd party offering HL7 and other transformations such as text/HL7. This is taking 2 different medical...
Now this has become a legal issue with the State of California, can this stand with not covering Viagra? It might appear the jury is going to be out on this one for a while and there are other drugs that come in to play with HMO coverage. What is and what is not covered is becoming a big issue...
Interchange and interoperability of medical records continues, this time with the Department of Defense and the VA. Just yesterday I posted about the exchange between Kaiser Permanente and the VA. The VA has also joined Internet 2 to become an active participant. Again, with...
Just yesterday I posted about the VA and Kaiser Permanente accomplishing a data interchange example . BD “This is a data to data transfer, and there is also the personal health record interface with Microsoft HealthVault as another alternative to getting information back and forth, whereby the...
This was a demonstration of how information can and was shared between applications, Kaiser and the VA’s Vista system. With KP HealthConnect™, all physicians and patients have 24/7 access to medical records from the web so as this matures, the information exchange should become a simpler process...
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...
A picture is worth 1000 words. I have recently had some conversations with health care clinicians, administrators, etc. about the Personal health records of Google and Microsoft Health Vault and this shows clearly how Beth Israel Deaconess has integrated the system with their own internal system...
Both the VA and Kaiser have been 2 of the real success stories with electronic medical records, and as we all read in the press while the transitioning was taking place, it was not a smooth road, there are bumps with implementing any medical records system, but the one thing the doctors had going at...
If you belong to Kaiser in northern California, Stanford Medical will now be able to see your medical records for the purpose of studying heart disease. It doesn't say if the records will be anonimized or not. Stanford will have access to 3.3 million records to study what is working and...
Prime Healthcare is growing in size, lagging just a bit behind Kaiser in size. By not having signed contracts, the hospitals can bill at their rate of service charge, so there are no breaks for the insurance companies. The hospitals see everyone in the ER rooms and are pretty much a lot of...