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
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, Health IT, PHR, Google Health, VA, Department of Defense, personal heatlh records, Military Health Records
More coverage this week on using a PHR (personal health record), this time from Joan Lunden. There are many out there to choose from, some are free and some require a fee, such as the one mentioned in this article. Are you a confused consumer? With all the available options out there today...
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on 10-21-2008
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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
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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
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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
The Wall Street Journal looks at how patients are confused when leaving the ER room. That can happen easily as many ER Rooms are extremely busy today. One suggestion is to try to write down some key information, or in some instances, some ER Rooms will print information for you, and one other...
This article does a good job in outlining the direction of the PHR, personal health record for those who have not caught up with the lingo yet. Do patients want it? As of now most probably don’t know what to do with it, agree. There are some cases though where this does not hold true, as...