I finally had time to take a look around in detail at some of the new features. The one that is very simple for anyone is the $9.00 a year fax service. This is neat as you get a dedicated fax number that you can give to anyone to send a fax, and the document will be found in your HealthVault Account...
This appears to be a second life here for financing after the Lehman bankruptcy put the brakes on the existing investments that were to move the merger. Also in the news of late: Misys Healthcare Systems and iMedica Corp. have settled a dispute over a year-old contract under which Misys licensed...
This week the Congress meeting is in Boston. I referenced in a earlier post that PHR's, (personal health records) are being viewed by Healthcare leadership as the favorite vehicle for interoperability. There is a podcast at the link below. There was a full line up of guest speakers...
A couple months ago I made mention of this to a few and nobody took it seriously, and yet here today, somebody’s talking about it! After the announcement of the program in the works for the NHS, I bounced this off a couple physicians, and they did agree, it sure would be simple to have one common...
The HealthVault and Google Health have already begun to impact the market and how the consumer thinks about health records today as this report indicates. With the recent partnership with Kaiser and the Microsoft HealthVault, I have already had some conversations with practices, hospitals, etc...
More news from Microsoft and partners on the HealthVault this week. About a month ago I posted on the new campaign aimed at consumers that is starting at the pharmacy level to promote e-Prescribing . Well that time is here as efforts are under way. I was at an practice this week and...
The competition for being “connected” with personal health records continues. Earlier this year Google made their announcements and this agreement with Kaiser looks to be pretty substantial. The key now is to encourage more consumers to take an interest in their health and establish a PHR...
This is good....be sure you have Silverlight and visit the "Patient Journey Demonstrator" to interact and see how the User Interface works...Dr. Crounse speaks to the NHS and talks about the unity needed for physicians to be able to use the same interface for entering patient information. Watch...