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
The service states that you are usually connected to a physician within 30 minutes of either a phone call or logging on to the computer to setup a consultation. Charges are $59.00 for a consult. You do need to establish an account before using the service. It requires that you fill...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-12-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, EMR, Physician, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, PHR, Google, Google Health, Telemedicine, HealthVault, consultations, SwiftMD
If you are familiar with Wikipedia , Knol will be no problem to understand and work with. There are a few changes though with authors not being anonymous with their entries as is the case with Wikipedia. They would like real names, but that is an option. Readers can also request changes...
I haven't even begun to start with the Health Vault for myself...now there's Google, so here goes...I am already signed up with Google for a number of online services, including this blog, so the creation of the file was pretty simple and effortless. Google and its decision support partners include...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 05-19-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Medical Records, Health IT, PHR, Google, Health Records, Google Health