When those in the industry talk of PHRs and adoption by consumers, virtually all of the focus is on two categories of users who dominate PHR use today, consumers with chronic care needs and a family’s chief medical officer, the woman of the house. Both groups of users are by and large from the middle [...]
Posts Tagged ‘adoption’
PHRs for the Disadvantaged
Posted in consumer health, PHR, tagged adoption, diabetes, MiVIA on August 27, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Interview with Adam Bosworth, formerly of Google Health
Posted in consumer health, Microsoft, Privacy, tagged Adam Bosworth, adoption, Google Health, HealthVault, personal health information, personal health systems, PHI, Xoova on August 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Adam Bosworth made quite a name for himself in the healthcare space while he was leader of the Google Health initiative. All got quite strange, however, when while on vacation late last summer, Bosworth decided not to return to Google Health. And while Bosworth went into stealth mode to develop Keas, Google chose not to [...]
EMR Adoption a Top Three Challenge
Posted in EMR, tagged adoption, MGMA on July 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today, the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) released the results of a survey conducted earlier this year whose purpose was to determine what are the top challenges members are facing. Among the some 34 challenges listed, EMR selection and implementation was one of the top three, following closely behind rising operating costs and declining revenue. [...]
Solving HIT Adoption Conundrum? Simple – “Show Me the Money”
Posted in EHR, EMR, PHR, policy, telehealth, tagged adoption, CMS, e-Consults, incentives, P4P, SafeMed on July 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There is a bit of a Catch-22 going on with regards to the future of PHR adoption by consumers, which I have discussed before. Simply, without broader adoption of EMR solutions by physicians, PHR adoption will go nowhere. And the number one reason doctors have been reluctant to adopt EMRs is quite simple, most EMR [...]
PHRs are Dead in the Water…
Posted in consumer health, EMR, tagged adoption on June 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
without automated data entry. Simply as that. An exceedingly small percentage of consumers, probably 1% at most, will bother to do the self-entry of all the information necessary to make a truly viable and useful PHR (e.g., medications, lab results, images, clinical notes, etc.). Ideally, much of this data would be drawn automatically from a [...]
Golden Fleece Revisited or Here’s What You Get for a Half Million $$$s
Posted in EHR, EMR, HIE, PHR, policy, RHIO, tagged adoption, Bearing Point, HHS, HIT, NAHIT on May 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Last year I resurrected former Senator William Proxmire’s Golden Fleece Award bestowing this fine honor on the bone-heads in Washington that thought one of the big hurdles to HIT adoption was confusion in the market over 6 acronyms (EHR, EMR, HIE, HIO, RHIO and PHR). Well, after two meetings, several months work and the expenditure [...]
Where are the 200 PHR Solutions?
Posted in PHR, tagged adoption, marketing, PHR on January 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Over and over again I hear the oft-stated claim that there are currently over 200 personal health record solutions available in the market today. Problem is, I can’t find them. The bigger problem, however, is that I hear this claim from all corners of the healthcare sector, including most PHR vendors. If anyone should have [...]
The Problem with PHRs
Posted in consumer health, PHR, SaaS, tagged adoption, consumer, EMR, HIStalk, PHR, physician on January 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In conducting research for the upcoming study on the personal health record (PHR) market, I have had the opportunity to view and demo many a PHR solution. There is an exceedingly wide range of solutions with an equally wide range of capabilities and services now available. Unfortunately, far too many PHR solutions are embarrassingly simplistic [...]
