This is a little different and the next phase with using a PHR (personal health record) to bring patients and physicians together in working with chronic disease treatments and plans. The Cleveland Clinic will enroll 400 participants and their physicians and provide devices for the patients to...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-10-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, Physician, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, PHR, Health Records, HealthVault, integration, Cleveland Clinic, Microsoft HealthVault, blood pressure monitors, glucose monitors, Chronic disease
There are a couple sites listed here and now as medical records are on the move going digital, it could be a pre-requisite someday soon to have be certified to work with digital data. The certification process is open to all applicants, physicians, medical assistants, etc. There is a test and it...
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on 10-15-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, EMR, Physician, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, PHR, medical assistant, digital Notes
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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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
It was just back in March that MediNotes purchased Bond technologies so the consolidation of technologies in the medical records business continues. Rebranding to take place in time and this will add to the portfolio of ambulatory EHR products as I am guessing the MediNotes component might have...
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on 09-19-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Hospital, Physician, Medical Records, EHR, PHR, Bond Technologies, Medinotes, Eclipsys
I agree here with the context, with all the information that is flying at all of us at a speed of more than most of us can fathom half the time, how can a physician expect to keep on top of all of this as well? The mind is not as good as a computer for retaining information and when used as a ...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 07-18-2008
Filed under: Tablet PCs, Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, Physician, healthcare, Medical Records, Tablet PC, Patient
This is what healthcare is all about today, being able to have access and share vital information, thus avoiding having to look through more than one file or data base to bring it all together under one roof. As time progresses on, integration is the key with electronic medical records becoming...
Information to be shared includes patient demographics, medications, allergies and reactions, diagnosis history, lab results, procedures, immunizations and health care providers....basically most of the components of any EHR/EMR....on target to be up and going in September....BD The hospitals announced...