Just about anything you hear coming out of HHS’s ONC office is with regards to digitizing the doctor’s office. This is somewhat understandable as there is some $36B in ARRA funding just waiting for the rules on “meaningful use” (MU) to come out of CMS sometime in December. Until those rules are released, the EMR [...]
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Pushing ONC to Act on Consumer’s Behalf
Posted in CCD, CCR, CDA, CMS, consumer health, EHR, EMR, eRx, PHP, PHR, tagged ARRA, HITECH Act, legislation, ONC, PHR systems, Rep Kennedy on September 23, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Information Fundamental to Knowledge
Posted in CCR, consumer health, PHR, policy, Privacy, Security, standards on June 23, 2009 | 6 Comments »
The foundational element to knowledge, from which wisdom flows, is information. Without information one can not begin to understand. So why is it that we, as consumers, have such a hard time gaining access to our personal health records, our personal health information (PHI)? Without access to that information, are we left to go forth [...]
Another Tiny Step Forward by Google Health
Posted in CCD, CCR, consumer health, Google, Google Health, Health Cloud, HealthVault, Microsoft on March 4, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Ever hoping for a viable competitor to HealthVault, we keep waiting for Google Health to kick it up a notch. But alas for us and the broader market, it continues to look like HealthVault is putting distance between itself and the other two consumer “Health Clouds” Dossia and Google Health. Earlier today, Google brief us [...]
Feds Launch Two PHR Initiatives This Week
Posted in CCD, CCR, consumer health, EHR, EMR, Health Cloud, PHR, policy, tagged CMS, HHS, Surgeon General on January 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This week, the feds made two announcements that have pertinence to the PHR market. CMS PHR Demo Launches in AZ & UT First, CMS announced the launch of the trial PHR program for Medicare members in AZ and UT. Beneficiaries can chose a PHR that fits their specific needs and have it pre-populated with up [...]
Big News – Microsoft Fulfills Promise, HealthVault Opens Up
Posted in CCD, CCR, Dossia, Google, Microsoft, PHR, PHS, tagged .Net, CCD, CCR, Codeplex, Dossia, Google, HealthVault, Microsoft, PDF Healthcare, PHR on February 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Received a note from a Microsoft representative today with some pretty big news regarding HealthVault. The news centers around efforts that the HealthVault team are taking to simplify the development, by partners, of solutions that will leverage the HealthVault platform. These efforts can be broken down into three distinct steps: Creating a number of “open-wrapper” [...]
A Utility Called Dossia
Posted in CCR, CDA, consumer health, Google, Microsoft, PHP, PHR, Privacy, tagged Dossia, Google, HealthVault, Indivo, Intel, Microsoft, PHR, Wal-Mart on December 5, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Earlier this year, Dossia established a partnership with the Children’s Hospital Informatics Program (CHIP) at Children’s Hospital Boston to use the Indivo platform that CHIP developed. Indivo has been used in a couple of trial personal health record (PHR) applications, including one at HP for an employee flu immunization program and more recently at MIT [...]
Indivo Health: Further Details on Dossia Agreement
Posted in CCR, EHR, PHP, PHR, Privacy, RHIO, SaaS, tagged CCR, Dossia, EHR, EMR, open source, PHR, Privacy, SaaS, Security on October 17, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Had the opportunity last week to get an update from Will Crawford and Ken Mandl of the Children’s Hospital Informatics Program (CHIP), a joint collaboration of Harvard Medical and MIT. The objective was to learn more about the recent agreement between CHIP and Dossia, whereby Dossia will adopt Indivo as the Personal Health Record (PHR) [...]
Interoperability in HIT
Posted in CCD, CCR, EHR, HL 7, PHR on August 30, 2007 | 1 Comment »
My post yesterday titled What is a Customer to do? reflected on the current state of PHRs in the marketplace. Received a good comment back from RHIOboy which forced me to delve a little deeper into the issue of Interoperability, specifically the developing CCD standard, for which public review and comment recently closed (July 18, [...]
