Hospitals and doctors do not get paid until they provide a service, so monitoring a patient remotely has not been set up with the “codes” for payment as of yet, but who knows how this could change down the road if insurers begin to compensate physicians and hospitals to monitor patient activity electronically...
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on 11-04-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, health insurance, Medical Devices, PHR, Heart Disease, Blood Pressure, Diabetes, HealthVault, Risk Management, Big Brother, American Heart Association, personal heatlh records, Remote monitoring
One more partner for the Microsoft HealthVault, press release below. Contrary to all it seems to be the last couple days of posts, this is not a total PHR blog. There has been a lot of news in this area and I just wanted to make sure all were aware that other news will continue to be posted...
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on 10-22-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, health insurance, PHR, Personal Health Records, Aetna, Informed Patient
Other hospital systems are working to catch up. Just in the news recently was the pilot exchange of information between the VA and Kaiser. Also the PHR, personal health records, from HealthVault will be due to come on line soon, so patients will be able to transfer the information to their...
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on 10-21-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, Physicians, PHR, HL7, VA, Hospitals, Kaiser Permanente, Patients, KP Health Connect, pilot program
Good points made here, but they left out one thing, technology and it’s improper use can kill you too. I would almost guess we could go as high as around 50% to find many of the errors stemmed right here. I love technology and what it does, but there are those who don’t and those that resist...
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on 10-14-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, healthcare, microsoft, medicare, Physicians, Common User Interface, Hospitals, Server 2008, Never-Never, Sepsis, Vanderbilt University, Errors, Human Audit Trail, Patient deaths
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
Even though he was not able to attend personally, modern technology of video conferencing made it possible for the Senator to continue his efforts and participation. As fuel prices continue to rise, along with just general state of the economy, video conferencing is finally coming of age. ...
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on 09-22-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Microsoft/Windows News, My Commentaries, healthcare, microsoft, Cancer, Congress, Senate, Senator Kennedy, Skype, Video Conferencing