While doing some research on healthcare IT (HIT) standards for our upcoming report on the PHR market I stumbled upon 3 different organizations who all seem to be doing pretty much the same thing, defining a functional model for PHRs. Functional Models are basically just that, a model that defines what functions should be contained [...]
Posts Tagged ‘PHR’
How Many Cooks Does it Take to Define a PHR Functional Model?
Posted in CCD, PHR, standards, tagged AHIP, CCHIT, HL7, PHR, Project Health Design, RWJF, standards on March 25, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Health Record Security – What’s on your laptop?
Posted in PHR, policy, Privacy, Security, tagged P2P, PHR, Privacy, Security on March 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
There is a tremendous amount of press with associated pundits pontificating on the issue of security and privacy of electronic medical records (EMR) and personal health records (PHRs). Cries of I’ll never put my information on Google Health or Microsoft’s HealthVault are commonly heard and widely reported. But it is always easier to point the [...]
Walgreens Ups the Ante in Retail Health
Posted in consumer health, PHR, tagged I-trax, PHR, retail clinics, Wal-Mart, Walgreens, WebMD, Whole Health Management on March 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday, mega-pharmacy chain Walgreens announced that it will acquire I-trax and Whole Health Management. With this acquisition, Walgreens is moving beyond its recent venture into retail clinics in its stores, to clinics hosted on-site at major employers. The adjacent figure, which I found in their investors’ presentation, makes it quite clear that Walgreens is moving [...]
An Interesting Marriage: Malpractice and PHRs
Posted in PHR, tagged Aetna, Cigna, e-Consult, Medem, PHR on March 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Now here’s an interesting spin… Malpractice insurer Northwest Physicians Insurance will be offering a rebate to physicians who adopt a PHR to facilitate patient-physician communication. Looks like this insurer predicts that if they can get the patient and physician to communicate more effectively to improve patient safety (and have an audit trail to prove it), [...]
Privacy Rights Smack-down in NH
Posted in consumer health, PHR, policy, Privacy, tagged consumer health, EMR, PHR, policy, Privacy on March 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This week, the “Live Free or Die” state of New Hampshire’s House voted down House Bill 1587, a bill that would have strengthened the privacy rights of consumers. The biggest objections to this bill came from the medical establishment itself claiming that passage of the bill would stall adoption of healthcare IT (HIT) systems. In [...]
Whacking the Privacy Zealots
Posted in PHR, policy, Privacy, tagged Google, Microsoft, PHR, Privacy on March 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Matt Holt, owner and master of The Health Care Blog, has an excellent post today on PHRs and privacy. It is a long post, at times more of a rambling rant, but in the end it does a great job of thoroughly reviewing a lot of the brouhaha surrounding this topic and discrediting many of [...]
The Business Case for Aetna’s SmartSource
Posted in PHR, tagged Aetna, PHR, SmartSource on March 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Pondering the previous post on Aetna’s announcement today regarding SmartSource, have come up with the following business arguments as to why Aetna is aggressively pursuing a consumer health engagement path. 1) Bring more value to the consumer/customer to get them to actually use their PHR. This is arguably the top reason as they have invested [...]
Aetna Keeps Pushing the Envelope
Posted in consumer health, Dossia, PHR, PHS, Privacy, tagged Aetna, Healthline, PHR, PHS, SmartSource, UnitedHealth, WellPoint on March 12, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Aetna is pretty aggressive on the personal healthcare front. First they buy ActiveHealth Management. Granted, ActiveHealth’s main target is not the consumer (disease management is their core competency), but they did introduce an online PHR early last year. Secondly, Aetna has partnered with all the major personal health systems (PHS) plays which include Dossia, Google [...]
Hospital CIO Sees the Value of PHRs
Posted in consumer health, PHR, tagged CIO, HIStalk, PHR on March 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Over on HIStalk, there was a quick blurb referencing a post over on the WSJ Business Blog. Now I do have an RSS feed coming into my iGoogle tracking the WSJ Health Blog, but not this one, so thanks HIStalk. Briefly, post is about Larry Stofko, CIO at St. Joseph’s Health System in California who [...]
Good Event Coming Up
Posted in consumer health, EHR, EMR, health portals, Microsoft, PHR, policy, tagged consumer healthcare, EMR, Health 2.0, PHR on March 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The World Health Care Congress will have its 5th annual event this coming April 21-23 in Washington DC. Quite an impressive line-up of speakers (Toby Cosgrove will be there) with sessions targeting all healthcare stakeholders, from heath plans to employers to providers and everything in-between. It’s all there. Heavy on the policy side (after all [...]
