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
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Microsoft/Windows News, My Commentaries, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, Health IT, PHR, Google Health, VA, personal heatlh records, Military Health Records, Department, mentors, education of Defense
The Human audit trail has arrived or I should say will arrive in January. Will we someday all be walking around with a device like this clipped to our clothing? This looks like an item that could be integrated in to one of the online Personal Healthcare Records programs as a next step . ...
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on 10-12-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Medical Records, health insurance, PHR, Google Health, HealthVault, software, fitness monitoring, Fitness, Big Brother, Employer health InsuranceInsurance
Below we have 2 different physicians, one who embraces technology so much to the fact that she has become an technology evangelist to help and convince other physicians to “buy in”, and she works as an emergency ER physician too. The second physician vowed to keep the paper trail going, that is...
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on 10-05-2008
Filed under: Tablet PCs, Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Windows Mobile, My Commentaries, healthcare, Medical Records, CIO, CEO, Health IT, Tablet PC, Physicians, PDA, Dragon Naturally Speaking, Dictation, Speech Recognition, CTO, COO, Meetings, Windows Journal
The comment below from a vendor is interesting, as he comments on the fact that a physician can make an extra $125,000 in 5 years, well some family care practice doctors today in California would like to just be making that in one year, as all the recent contracts with insurance companies are getting...
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on 10-01-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, EMR, Hospital, Medicine, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, Common User Interface, Charity, CMS, Linux, Donations, bankruptcies
This project has had it's issues getting off the ground amidst law suits , etc. The companies will pay a transaction fee for each employee and contribute 1.5 million each for the project. There are some pretty big names here. So we are back to the area of “trust” once more , so...
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on 10-01-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, wal-mart, healthcare, Medical Records, PHR, MIB, Personal Healthcare Records, Dossia
So why is this here on a healthcare page? If you have not heard of Telligent Systems their star product is called the Community Server, used by many healthcare related blogs and discussion forums. If you would like to see the social tool live, you can head over to another site where I have...
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on 09-23-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Intel, Medical Records, EMRUpdate, Telligent, Capital Investments
As I have posted in the past, hospitals today come in various shapes and forms, so doing better financially than others and those who still have the ability are moving forward to work with physicians to extend the electronic medical record to the ambulatory setting (the doctor’s office) to where the...
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on 09-19-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, Medical Records, EHR, Physicians, PHR, Hospitals, Personal Health Records, Heatlhcare, Stark