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EMRs? We don't need no steenkin' EMRs

A survey of over 2,700 physicians by the New England Journal of Medicine shows only 4% make full use of Electronic Medical Records EMRs and barely one in eight has even a rudimentary system. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Physician, Electronic Health Record, Survey, Personal Health Record, E-health, Healthcare, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-06-19

Patient Centered health care meets enormous resistance

At issue here are Electronic Medical Records EMRs, which doctors and hospitals create, and Personal Health Records PHRs, copies of those records controlled by patients. They are not being tied together. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Patient, Health Care, Personal Health Record, California Healthcare Foundation, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-06-12

Where does Google Health go from here?

Google Health is going after all the industry's stakeholders and will let the open source process deliver applications, based on personal health records, which may or may not be free. Google and some of its Google Health partners called ZDNet soon after participating in a Webcast for...

Tags: Google Inc., Health Care, Personal Health Record, Google Health, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-19

VeriChip goes consumer with its implantable RFID chips; Would you buy?

VeriChip said Tuesday it will begin pitching its implantable RFID chips directly to consumers in a move that aims to link doctors directly to personal health records. VeriChip said it will launch a direct-to-consumer marketing campaign in South Florida on April 28. The general idea appears...

Tags: VeriChip, Health Care, RFID Chip, Personal Health Record, Chip, Microsoft HealthVault, Health Link, RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-22

Cutting to chase of Personal Health Record debate

Cutting to chase of Personal Health Record debateWe agreeDana, though I often disagree with what you write on the healthcare space, you nailed this topic/issue right. Congratulations! Like you, been around the IT block more than a few times and it is clear, control is the issue, nothing...

Tags: personal health record

Discussion threads 2008-04-17

Cutting to chase of Personal Health Record debate

The New England Journal of Medicine has entered the debate over Personal Health Records PHRs with four articles, all with different perspectives, all with the full text behind their registration firewall. So let's cut to the chase. I've seen this play out in a host of industries over...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Personal Health Record, E-health, Hipaa, Healthcare, Regulations, Government, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-04-17

Creating personal health record value from the bottom up

A Health information index Hii system creates value from a personal health record PHR by linking that record to a knowledge base and telling patients what they can about what ails them. It's part of a 20-year quest by Steve Beller right, a clinical psychologist by training who...

Tags: Health Care, Personal Health Record, Health Information Index System, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-04-16

The Tangled Web of Google Health - Online Medical Records Could Change Healthcare Receivables Strategies

Several prominent web cornerstone firms, like Google and Microsoft, are pushing a system that would allow consumers' access to Personal Health Records. The medical ARM industry could both benefit and suffer by this move. The World Wide Web and the major international corporations that help users organize the way they...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Health Care, Medical Record, Personal Health Record, Kaulkin Ginsberg, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources

White papers 2008-03-20

Will privacy keep Health 2.0 from the starting gate?

The Health 2.0 conference in San Diego this week was a sell-out, and the schmoozefest was filled with the kind of promise which Janet Dillione of Siemens spoke about last week. (Picture from the Health 2.0 wiki.) But will privacy concerns strangle Health 2.0 in its crib?...

Tags: Privacy, Fact, Health Care, Personal Health Record, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-03-05

Will you trust your medical information to Google?

The Cleveland Clinic has announced a partnership with Google that will essentially be a soft launch of the long-awaited Google Health personal health record service. Privacy concerns may not be too far behind. According to a statement, Google will help the Cleveland Clinic to offer personal health...

Tags: Google Inc., Interoperability, Goal, Personal Health Record, Cleveland Clinic, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-02-21

Solace (exe)

Solace by Health InfoSTAT, our free personal health record PHR software, allows you to organize important information and prepare a summary report. Be ready for a visit to a new physician and be prepared for an emergency. In addition to maintaining medical information in your personal health record, all of...

Tags: Health Care, Solace, Personal Health Record, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources

Software downloads 2007-08-14

Google scary now? Personal Health Records, sponsored by Google, next

Google scary now? Personal Health Records, sponsored by Google, nextWon't happen, at least not in the near future.Current HIPAA regulations will not allow this kind of information to be available, so you will NOT see this kind of information online.The title of this article is the scary part. Deliberately...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, personal health record, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., health care

Discussion threads 2007-04-24

Google scary now? Personal Health Records, sponsored by Google, next

“Good and scary,” so headlined Anil Dash of the new Google “Web History” user tracking tool. “Google’s privacy nightmare just starting,” so declared Om Malik, noting a Washington Post story of a complaint filed with the Federal Trade Commission FTC seeking an injunction against the announced Google purchase of...

Tags: Media, Marketing, Government, Google Software Applications, Google Ads, Google, Culture, AdWords, Advertising

Blog posts 2007-04-24

Additional Resources

DTrace and the Linux bunker mentality

Why isn't the Linux kernel group doing what the BSD people did with respect to DTrace: seeing a better idea and grabbing it with both hands? My guess is personal antipathies expressed as a big dose of not invented here syndrome. by Paul Murphy

Tags: DTrace, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-07-24

|)ruid and HD Moore release part 2 of DNS exploit

[Updated 07/24/2008: Gallery images of diffs of code revisions has been included and will be updated as things change, see here.] Earlier today, noted researchers |)ruid and HD Moore released exploit code for the Metasploit tool for attacking the DNS flaw that was originally reported by Dan...

Tags: DNS, Domain, Server, Entry, Exploit, NS, NS Record, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Attack code published for DNS flaw

The urgency to patch Dan Kaminsky's DNS cache poisoning vulnerability just went up a few notches. Exploit code for the flaw, which allows the insertion of malicious DNS records into the cache of the target nameserver, has been added to Metasploit, a freely distributed attack/pen-testing tool....

Tags: Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-23

MindTouch Deki: Kilen Woods release

Today, MindTouch Deki releases Kilen Woodds, its latest and biggest release. In conversation with co-founder Aaron Fulkerson I learned that Deki is rapidly transforming itself from being a smart wiki into what Fulkerson calls the 'connecting tissue' between applications. Others might call it mashup environment, still others a means of...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Mashup, Aaron Fulkerson, Management Option, Wiki, Collaboration, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Databases, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-07-23

What people hate most about health insurance

In a public system bureaucracy is just waste. But in a private system, bureaucracy is a profit center. As the debate over health care heats up, this is the point I'll remember most. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Health Insurance, Health Care, Bureaucracy, Carrier, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Inside the mind - and config - of Terry Childs

Terry Childs's lawyer, Erin Crane, offered the court some insights into the Childs' motivations in changing SF's network passwords. She will argue today for a reduction in his $5 million bail, perhaps to something closer to the bail set for common murderers ($1 mil.) In her written...

Tags: Password, Network, Backup, Terry Childs, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Microsoft gives a new Xbox 360 experience

Despite having what is regarded as one of the best user interfaces of all the major consoles, Microsoft is reinventing the Xbox 360's look. Despite ostensibly having what is regarded as one of the best user interfaces of all the major consoles, Microsoft is reinventing the Xbox 360's look....

Tags: NetFlix Inc., Microsoft Xbox Live, Video, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox 360, Microsoft Xbox, LiveParty, Spotlight Channel, Xbox Experience, Games, Game Players, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Marketing, Xbox 360, Microsoft, user-generated, video games, Xbox Live, Sarju Shah, Gamespot

News items 2008-07-23