One more reason to think about a PHR, personal health record. Earlier today it was announced that United Healthcare was offering their own PHR, but this set up makes more sense to me, import your information from Blue Cross in to your Google Health Record, in other words you are still in control...
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on 12-01-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, healthcare, Medical Records, Health IT, PHR, Google Health, Blue Cross, personal heatlh records, mentors
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
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
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This is interesting, which one will prevail? AHLTA has some nice dictation already built in with Dragon Naturally Speaking and this might be an area where the VISTA system will need some work a far as which one will prevail, but at any rate the exchange of medical records is moving forward. ...
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on 11-25-2008
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With both consumer and commercial medical devices, Bluetooth has become a preferred connection. I remember back to the early days of Bluetooth and we all used to sit around and wonder in the Windows Mobile group where Bluetooth was going to somehow fit it. The cell phone was the obvious answer...
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on 11-25-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Windows Mobile, Medical Records, EHR, Medical Devices, Health IT, PHR, Google Health, personal health record, Healthcre, Bluetooth
Some records are already online and will follow the Continuity of Care Document format. Back in June I had posted about the pilot program with Beth Israel Deaconess in Boston which has already been up and running for disability records , also the hospital offers patients personal health records...
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on 11-24-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, EHR, PHR, Health Records, VA, Kaiser Permanente, Social Security, Beth Israel Deaconess of Boston, Department of Defense
There’s a lot of truth to this study in more ways than one. Shoot I’m sitting around Twitter hoping to inspire some physicians, readers, PHDs, journalists, business leaders, business organizations, students, you name it, to just try a FREE PHR, and see what power is there and what they do. ...
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on 11-23-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Medical Records, Medical Devices, PHR, Personal Health Records, software, Caregivers, monitoring devices, Intrusive Technology, attitude