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
This is an update on a post from a few days ago, now the target date looks to be in December, and don’t quote me for sure, but you can almost bet their will be some interoperability built in when completed. BD From a few days ago: Microsoft is lead developer on military Personal Health Records...
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on 11-14-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, Health IT, PHR, Google Health, VA, Department of Defense, personal heatlh records, Military Health Records
The Senior Care Action Network Health Plan (SCAN) in Long Beach, California plans to employ the devices later this month. A cover has been added to the webcam as some consumers worried about privacy, which may not be a bad addition, as we are all concerned about privacy and the home monitoring...
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on 11-10-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Intel, Medical Devices, Health IT, Telemedicine, Seniors, Home Monitoring, PHS 5000, Telehealth, Scan health care
If you have been reading this blog of late, there have been many posts about personal health records, and now it seems those 2 companies that everyone seems to worry about related to security with PHRs, Microsoft and Google, are now working on a project with the military to create a personal health records...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-05-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, Health IT, PHR, Google Health, VA, Department of Defense, personal heatlh records, Military Health Records
From the IT side of things, I can’t agree more with all the additional administrative functions that appear in today’s medical practice, as a few years ago when I was writing code and creating a medical records program, much of what I was doing was looking for ways to automate some of this, to free the...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-30-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, My Commentaries, Physician, healthcare, EHR, Health IT, PHR, Personal Health Records, software, Internet, insurers, administration, Red tape, information overlaod, IT partner
Does Healthcare need Twitter? Well Twitter can sure use some additional healthcare folks. When I began using Twitter I didn’t give it much thought and actually didn’t know what the real purpose was of letting others know where you are or simply typing in an update. Well enter RSS feeds and...
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on 10-24-2008
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When this technology came out, there were many questions about privacy, and the chip needs to have a facility with a “chip reader” as well, so to get everything going it does take some coordination. In the meantime, the PHR movement is moving quickly in some real positive directions as there is...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-24-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Medical Records, Health IT, PHR, Google, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, Kaiser Permanente, Kiosk, Health, Emergency Room, ER, Verichip