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HealthVault Speaks Out: Clarifying Their Approach to Standards

Posted in Microsoft, PHR, consumer health, policy, tagged on July 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Sean Nolan, the chief software architect for Microsoft’s HealthVault has written an excellent post on the philosophy/approach that Microsoft is taking with regards to HIT standards (basically supporting whatever is in use). What I found particularly interesting in the post (at least for this neophyte to the HIT sector) is that in healthcare it is [...]

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CCHIT Goes After PHRs

Posted in PHR, Privacy, Security, consumer health, policy, tagged , , on June 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »

It was only a matter of time as rumors have been swirling around for sometime now but CCHIT has announced the formation of an Advisory Task Force (ATF) to provide guidance to CCHIT on what should and should not be included as part of a PHR certification process. While the announcement was extremely thin on [...]

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Defining a Functional Model for PHRs or How Many Cooks Does it Take?

Posted in CCD, PHR, standards, tagged , , , , , , on March 25, 2008 | 6 Comments »

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 [...]

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Civic Duty?

Posted in EHR, EMR, HIE, PHR, RHIO, policy, standards, tagged , , , , , , , , , on February 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

If you get bored of walking the aisles of HIMSS and can’t bear to hear another vendor pitch, well you could always wander over to a session where people will gather to discuss and reach consensus on what are arguably the 5 most used acronyms in the industry. You can contribute to the discussion as [...]

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Halamka Demos CCD as Path Forward for PHRs

Posted in PHR, Privacy, RFID, policy, standards, tagged , , , on December 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

John Halamka, the CIO of Boston based Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital and Chairperson of standards organization HITSP is a daring soul, having had an RFID implanted into his upper arm to validate the technology and most recently provides an interesting example of two formats for displaying his medical records. Why is he doing this? As [...]

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HL7 Releases Draft PHR Standard

Posted in HL 7, PHR, standards, tagged , , on December 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

This week, the standards group, HL7 announced the release of the personal health record system functional model (PHR-S FM) as a draft standard for trial use.  They expect the finalized standard to hit the streets in early 2008. You’ll find the PDF press release for this announcement here.  This link will take you to HL7′s [...]

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EMR Vendors Push CCD for Interoperability

Posted in CCD, EHR, EMR, HL 7, PHR, policy, telehealth, tagged , , , , , on November 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Last week, the HIMSS Electronic Health Record Vendors Association EHRVA announced the availability of a “Quickstart Guide for CCD Standard.”  The guide is structured to assist the multitude of electronic medical record (EMR) vendors, both large and small, in how to adopt the recently released (January 2007) Continuity of Care Document (CCD) standard in their [...]

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