One more reason to think about a PHR, personal health record. Earlier today it was announced that United Healthcare was offering their own PHR, but this set up makes more sense to me, import your information from Blue Cross in to your Google Health Record, in other words you are still in control...
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on 12-01-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, healthcare, Medical Records, Health IT, PHR, Google Health, Blue Cross, personal heatlh records, mentors
ZDNet just wrote about Dr. Kolodner and his recent report which is good, but we need more than reports. I have been doing a whole lot here reporting on reports! Can we move forward as I think we have won the battle that PHRs are worth their weight here and get the show moving? You...
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on 11-25-2008
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This is interesting, which one will prevail? AHLTA has some nice dictation already built in with Dragon Naturally Speaking and this might be an area where the VISTA system will need some work a far as which one will prevail, but at any rate the exchange of medical records is moving forward. ...
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on 11-25-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, Health IT, PHR, Google Health, VA, Department of Defense, personal heatlh records, Military Health Records
With both consumer and commercial medical devices, Bluetooth has become a preferred connection. I remember back to the early days of Bluetooth and we all used to sit around and wonder in the Windows Mobile group where Bluetooth was going to somehow fit it. The cell phone was the obvious answer...
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on 11-25-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Windows Mobile, Medical Records, EHR, Medical Devices, Health IT, PHR, Google Health, personal health record, Healthcre, Bluetooth
We all long for the day that all practices and hospitals can transmit medical records and talk to each other, but as we all know it is not there yet and will continue to evolve, and add on today’s economic crisis, something that is already slowing down the wheels of progress here. But, the PHR...
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on 11-16-2008
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This is an update on a post from a few days ago, now the target date looks to be in December, and don’t quote me for sure, but you can almost bet their will be some interoperability built in when completed. BD From a few days ago: Microsoft is lead developer on military Personal Health Records...
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on 11-14-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, Health IT, PHR, Google Health, VA, Department of Defense, personal heatlh records, Military Health Records
If you have been reading this blog of late, there have been many posts about personal health records, and now it seems those 2 companies that everyone seems to worry about related to security with PHRs, Microsoft and Google, are now working on a project with the military to create a personal health records...
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on 11-05-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, Health IT, PHR, Google Health, VA, Department of Defense, personal heatlh records, Military Health Records