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- ActiveHealth shows how all this PHR stuff should work
- Once people are tied into a functional PHR system, applications like the ActiveHealth alert system can be deployed to keep them safe. It's especially valuable when both doctors and patients are notified in an emergency. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Patient, Personal Health Record, ActiveHealth, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-04-27
- Healthline proclaims itself the winner in consumer health
- In practice this means you download your Aetna or United EHR to an Aetna or United PHR. At that point your data can face Healthline's search services, which then deliver the benefits of semantic search to you. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Aetna Inc., Health Care, Personal Health Record, Healthline, West Shell, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-04-21
- Google Health opens pandora box of PHR sharing
- This makes patients, not doctors, the primary gatekeepers of their own health data, assuming your doctor lets you download your Electronic Health Record into the Google PHR. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Google Inc., Patient, Google Health, Health Care, Personal Health Record, Pandora, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-03-05
- IBM-Google deal good, lazy media bad
- A device compatible with Continua's open source standards can now check my blood pressure regularly, upload that to Google Health, and let me detect changes in my daily pattern before it kills me. Thanks to IBM. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Health, Media, Health Care, Personal Health Record, IBM Corp., Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-02-05
- Should the state hold your PHR?
- Why is, say, a Georgia health bank so inherently trustworthy if all those records are transferrable to New Jersey? Aren't we really talking about a government records bank? Isn't that state control of records? by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Bank, Google Inc., Patient, Billing, Electronic Health Record, Business Model, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Personal Health Record, E-health, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Financial Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-12-19
- The problem with PHRs
- Personal Health Records PHRs are seen as the "silver bullet" in the Obama health plan, but if a health IT leader can't make it work what chance do the rest of us have? by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Health Care, Personal Health Record, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-12-18
- The health coaching shortage
- A conference dedicated to making others break down their own walls -- insurers, government, hospitals -- may have found that the key to progress lies in breaking down its own. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Patient, Health Care, Personal Health Record, Snyderman, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-12-16
- Are electronic and personal health records inevitable?
- Are electronic and personal health records inevitable?Well obama won and one of his main topics was healthcare.I would wager to bet, EHR will play a pivitol role in the tranformation of our healthcare system.Simple answer: noThere will be no electronic health records in the foreseeable future. Those who would have...
- Tags: E-health, HEALTHCARE, INTERNET, personal health record, EMR
- Discussion threads 2008-11-24
- Are electronic and personal health records inevitable?
- Kolodner has written that this year represents a "tipping point" for the adoption of Electronic Health Records EHRs by doctors and hospitals and Personal Health Records PHRs by individuals. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Health Care, Personal Health Record, Kolodner, E-health, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- How doctors may benefit from personal health records
- How doctors may benefit from personal health recordsOpening up to more than Google and MicrosoftFrom what I understand, the need for these data systems to work together is a big part of the larger electronic health record EHR challenge. It's encouraging to see Medicare tying in with existing personal health...
- Tags: E-health, Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, personal health record, MedeFile Card, health care, Alex Papas, benefit
- Discussion threads 2008-11-14
- How doctors may benefit from personal health records
- When "2 messages are coordinated to reinforce each another," the study concluded, compliance improved 12.5%, the quality of care improved, and the doctor-patient relationship was improved as well. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Benefit, Personal Health Record, Dana Blankenhorn, Patient, Doctor, E-health, Healthcare
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- How your Personal Health Record might save your life
- How your Personal Health Record might save your lifeHigh tech: handwriting[i]Take the readings, then enter them through the PC to HealthVault, which can share those records with the Clinic at your command.[/i]Or, alternately, take the readings and write them in a notebook and show them to your doctor without having...
- Tags: Smart phones, Handhelds, micro-PC, smart phone, phone, iPhone/Touch, personal health record
- Discussion threads 2008-11-11
- How your Personal Health Record might save your life
- You can look at both these efforts as very public medical trials, just like the JUPITER study we reported on the other day. Hard evidence is need to prove that PHRs work at extending life and lowering costs. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Life, Personal Health Record, Dana Blankenhorn, Patient
- Blog posts 2008-11-11
- ExpressScripts faces sum of personal health record fears
- ExpressScripts faces sum of personal health record fearsAnd better yet[i]But, as Jack Ryan teaches in Tom Clancy's spy novels, it is much wiser in the long run to face these threats down and counter than to give in to blackmail.[/i]And better still to have no secrets worth blackmailing.Anyone who commits...
- Tags: Channel management, Web site development, PHR, personal health record fear, ExpressScripts, personal health record, Web
- Discussion threads 2008-11-10
- ExpressScripts faces sum of personal health record fears
- It's not just medical records outfits which knuckle under. Most companies whose virtual offices are hacked by blackmailers hush the incidents up, afraid of a customer backlash and lawsuits. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Personal Health Record, Dana Blankenhorn, Fred, E-health, Healthcare
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- Ryan Howard answers Practice Fusion's critics
- It's completely web-based, with live phone support, and yes, it's free. "You can be up and running in a couple of minutes." by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Google Inc., Patient, Electronic Health Record, Standards, Personal Health Record, Ryan Howard, E-health, Quality, Healthcare, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
- Gartner pitches analysis of PHRs in the clouds
- The problem, Gartner says, is that the private clouds could disrupt local initiatives to collect and use Personal Health Records. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Gartner Inc., Health Care, Personal Health Record, Analysis, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- 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
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