While there has been plenty of press on privacy and security as it relates to PHR vendors, especially now that Google and Microsoft have jumped into the arena, it is absolutely critical that the press, various “privacy pundits” and the consumer realize that this issue is not just limited to PHR vendors. Sure, it’s easy [...]
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Privacy Problem Not Limited to PHR Vendors
Posted in consumer health, Google, PHR, policy, Privacy, Security, tagged PHR, Privacy, Security on April 10, 2008 | 5 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 [...]
Data Liquidity not Always a Good Thing
Posted in policy, Privacy, Security, tagged Horizon Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Privacy, Security on February 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Data liquidity is not always such a good thing, particularly if you live in New Jersey. Last week it was reported that a laptop with over 300,000 consumer records contained therein was stolen. Now, Horizon Blue Cross/Blue Shield of New Jersey, the owner of that laptop, is notifying these consumers that their personal information may [...]
LA Times: Decent Article on PHRs
Posted in consumer health, PHR, Privacy, tagged AHIMA, LA Times, PHR, Privacy, Security on December 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
While cringing at most news articles I read in the popular press that address PHRs, the LA Times published a thoughtful piece last week that’s worth reading. I may quibble with some comments such as: There are “at least 200 PHRs on the market”. I’ve done a lot of digging and can’t come up with [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Health 2.0 Looks Like a HIT
Posted in EHR, EMR, HIE, PHR, Security, tagged EHR, PHR, Security, Web2.0 on September 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday’s Health 2.0 Conference exceeded the expectations of its organizers, founders of The Health Care Blog (THCB). They’ve put together an abstract of the event with brief synopsis of each session on their Blog. Roughly 450 attendees, a who’s who of progressive healthcare IT vendors and other stakeholders, interesting panel sessions, some demos of newer, [...]
