One more entry into the the PHR system, but the one big issue here for me at least, is that I would be very reluctant to place all my records with a company in the business of risk management, thus I prefer Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault, as they service the enterprise and have no other areas...
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on 12-01-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, PHR, Google Health, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, Data Mining, Diagnosis, United HealthCare, ER, distractions, primary MD
If you are one of many, well like all of us in the search for information relative to healthcare today, the self diagnosing trends are alive and well. With the wealth of information we have available, it is easy to do a little reading and self diagnose yourself with an entire multitude of diseases...
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on 11-30-2008
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Dr. Crounse from the Microsoft Health Blog shares some information about healthcare in Japan. I had also heard about the measuring of the employee waists somewhere else along the line and if you get too fat you’re employer is in trouble with the central health authority and can be fined, their...
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on 11-23-2008
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Not too long ago I had stated that online personal health records may be the best way to go, and now VeriChip has also partnered with the HealthVault. When you have an implanted chip, you are able to go on line and update your information, this information now will export to the HealthVault. I...
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on 11-21-2008
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This will be interesting to see which direction this may go, as today, we certainly have so many modules of code that have already been written and portions of one module could be combined with others. Just earlier this year Mayo announced working with Microsoft Health Vault for Personal Health...
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on 11-19-2008
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If you are a participating physician, you just log on and wait for the patients to connect, pretty simple on that end. Health plans pay American Well a license fee per member to use the software, as well as a transaction fee of about $2 a patient each time a patient sees a doctor. This system...
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on 11-19-2008
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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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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