Late last week, the Markle Foundation’s Connecting for Health initiative released its latest report: Consumer Authentication for Networked Personal Health Information. As with previous reports from Connecting for Health, this report is heavy on policy and much of it can be quickly skimmed, after all, it is some 37 pages in length. But within those [...]
Posts Tagged ‘EMR’
Markle Addresses Authentication for Health Records
Posted in consumer health, EMR, health portals, PHR, policy, Privacy, Security, tagged authentication, Connecting for Health, EMR, Markle, NHIN, PHR on January 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Continua Alliance Features PHRs
Posted in EHR, EMR, health portals, Microsoft, PHP, PHR, Privacy, telehealth, tagged Continua Alliance, EMR, Microsoft, PHP, PHR, telehealth on December 7, 2007 | 2 Comments »
While doing some research, came across this feature article in the telehealth/med device alliance, Continua’s monthly newsletter. The article, written by arguably one of the most prolific, hyperactive and knowledgeable CIO’s in the healthcare sector, John Halamka, who also happens to be a professor at Harvard Med, provides a good introductory overview of the personal [...]
WSJ/Harris Survey on Privacy & Electronic Records
Posted in consumer health, EHR, EMR, PHR, Privacy, tagged EHR, EMR, PHR, Privacy, survey on December 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Last week the Wall Street Journal online edition released the findings of a November 2007 survey of 2000+ on consumer views of electronic records and privacy. Some of the key findings: 23% rely on their doctors to maintain their personal electronic medical record and 3% maintain their own personal health record (PHR). 91% believe they [...]
Wharton School Takes a Look at PHRs
Posted in EHR, EMR, Google, Microsoft, PHP, PHR, Privacy, tagged Dossia, EHR, EMR, Google, Microsoft, PHP, PHR, Wharton on November 30, 2007 | 1 Comment »
University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School has published an article this week on the Personal Health Records (PHRs) market. Article provides an overview on some of the key issues regarding PHRs, which may be useful for the layman, but unfortunately, they overlook a number of key points and in a couple of cases are just plain [...]
Update on the GE-Boston Scientific Partnership
Posted in EMR, HL 7, telehealth, tagged Boston Scientific, EMR, GE, healthcare, HL7, telehealth on November 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Recently wrote a brief post on the GE-Boston Scientific partnership, but left a few questions unanswered awaiting a reply from one of the companies. Received an email today that helps clarify the partnership. First-off, it is an exclusive partnership between these two companies. No need to despair, however, as the exclusive clause is for a [...]
GE and Boston Scientific Push Telehealth Envelop
Posted in EMR, Microsoft, telehealth, tagged Boston Scientific, EMR, GE, healthcare, telehealth on November 10, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Mid last week, GE and Boston Scientific made an interesting announcement wherein Boston Scientific’s patient monitoring platform, LATITUDE will be able to automatically update a patient’s Centricity-based electronic medical record (EMR). Currently, cardiologists use LATITUDE to remotely monitor a patient’s defibulator implant, but this data is collected and stored separately, outside of a patient’s core [...]
Microsoft Expands HIT Footprint with Thai Acquisition
Posted in EHR, EMR, eRx, Microsoft, tagged acquisition, clinicals, EMR, HIT, Microsoft, PACS on October 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Microsoft announced it will acquire Global Care Solutions Thailand, Ltd (GCS) for an undisclosed sum. GCS is a small company that has developed a diverse range of healthcare IT (HIT) software modules, all based on the Microsoft stack. Currently, GCS claims to have seven hospitals, all in Southeast Asia, that are live on its HIT [...]
Quick Snippets from Connected for Health
Posted in EMR, Google, Microsoft, PHR, telehealth, tagged EMR, Google, health, Microsoft, PHR, telehealth on October 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Big draw of over 750 attendees. Good representation of the industry, with primary focus on telehealth, thus plenty of representatives from this sector including in no particular order, Cisco, Sharp, Panasonic, Medtronic, Philips, Honeywell, you get the idea. Of course, loads of others surrounding this space such as VC firms, financial analysts, law firms, consultants, [...]
Microsoft Joins Others to Rachet-up Privacy Campaign
Posted in HIE, Microsoft, Privacy, RHIO, Security, tagged EHR, EMR, HIE, PHR, Privacy, RHIO, Security on October 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Over on the WSJ Health blog there is a quick posting on how Microsoft joined with some 40 plus organizations including the ACLU, AIDS Action, and Gun Owners of America, to name a few in lobbying Congress, via letter, to update the nation’s privacy laws. Just as important as who is on the list are [...]
