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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Privacy’
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 »
PHRs on NPR this Morning
Posted in consumer health, Google, Microsoft, PHP, PHR, policy, Privacy, tagged consumer health, Google, HealthVault, Microsoft, NPR, PHR, Privacy on November 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This morning’s newscast of Morning Edition on National Public Radio (NPR) had a brief story (~ 4min, you can listen to it here) on the growing use of IT in a medical practice. The story quickly focuses in on the potential of Personal Health Records (PHRs) with interview comments from a doctor on how useful [...]
Who’ya Gonna Trust
Posted in policy, Privacy, tagged healthcare, Massachusetts, Privacy, universal healthcare on November 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Coming in on the T this morning picked up the local free rag, Metro. What to my wondering eyes is plastered across the front page banner: “Health Concerns.” Seems as though yesterday, during the meeting of the Health Care Quality and Cost Council (HCQCC), concerns were raised regarding privacy of patient records and how to [...]
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 [...]
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) [...]
Digging Into Microsoft’s HealthVault: Part Two (b) – The Experience
Posted in EHR, EMR, PHR, Privacy, Security, tagged EHR, EMR, IT, Microsoft, PHR, Privacy, SaaS, Security, telehealth on October 15, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Have you ever come home from a strenuous work-out famished and can find nothing in the cupboards or the refrigerator to satisfy your cravings? If so, then you have some idea of what I experienced on HealthVault. Getting into HealthVault was a work-out. It all began with the need to establish a Microsoft Windows Live [...]
Digging Into Microsoft’s HealthVault: Part Two (a) – The Platform
Posted in EHR, EMR, PHR, Privacy, SaaS, Security, tagged EHR, EMR, IT, Microsoft, PHR, Privacy, SaaS, Security, telehealth on October 12, 2007 | 8 Comments »
I came into this review with very high hopes, hopes that Microsoft, with its vast resources and market clout, would make a major splash in the rapidly evolving consumer health IT (HIT) market. I was thinking BIG. Big grand schemes, a monster of a Personal Health Record (PHR) solution that would provide all a consumer [...]
Study Finds HIPAA Hinders Research Efforts
Posted in Analytics, Privacy, tagged HIPAA, pharmaceuticals, Privacy, research on October 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Earlier today, I commented on Eli Lilly’s CEO request for greater adoption of HIT and subsequent sharing of aggregate, anonymous patient data to assist in identifying potential adverse drug events (ADE). Well, low and behold the latest issue of Government Health IT reports that a recent study found current HIPAA rules is making it more [...]
AHIMA to Further Promote PHR
Posted in PHR, Privacy, Security, tagged AHIMA, PHR, Privacy, Security on October 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), a professional organization of over 50,000 members, will announce at its annual conference later this month their intent to further educate the public on Personal Health Records (PHR) by hitting the airwaves (PBS and cable news networks). This is a logical extension of their promotion of the PHR [...]
