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
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Medical Records, PHR, GE, HealthVault, integration, Mayo Clinic, Pittsburgh, Montefiore, UPMC
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
Here are a few additional posts that have been posted by Fox and Reuters this week. There are several more published over the last few weeks, but here’s a few of the highlights for this week. The AARP story was the same post as featured on the Wall Street Journal. Senator opens investigation...
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on 11-06-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, PHR, Google Health, AARP, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, eprescribing, Medical Quack, NEPSI, Reuters, Fox News, DNA technology
Hospitals and doctors do not get paid until they provide a service, so monitoring a patient remotely has not been set up with the “codes” for payment as of yet, but who knows how this could change down the road if insurers begin to compensate physicians and hospitals to monitor patient activity electronically...
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on 11-04-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, health insurance, Medical Devices, PHR, Heart Disease, Blood Pressure, Diabetes, HealthVault, Risk Management, Big Brother, American Heart Association, personal heatlh records, Remote monitoring
Good interview from Robert Scoble and well worth listening to, he speaks about how healthcare is in a very fast pace, faster than what we have known in the past and about the shift to the consumer is evolving as far as taking care and accumulating your own personal health care records. People are...
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on 10-26-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, privacy, microsoft, Medical Records, PHR, Google Health, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, Economy, MIB, Health 2.0, Healthline
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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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
Very nice hospitals putting the effort in to helping patients learn how to use a personal health records, in this case, HeatlhVault from Microsoft. Just created one for my mother last evening and we plan to sign up in the next few days for the $9.00 a year fax service where any item can be faxed...
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on 10-17-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, Medical Devices, PHR, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, Document management, E-faxing