Archive for August, 2008
Comments
Washington state launches health records banking pilot projects
Comments off
“The Washington State Health Care Authority is spending $1.7 million to finance health record banking pilot projects in three communities.
Two of the health care providers involved in the project have teamed up with Microsoft HealthVault, and the other is partnered with Google Health.”
Article
Nancy Ferris, Government Health IT, 29 August 2008
Comments
Meeting the Requirements of Project HealthDesign: Comparative Analysis with Respect to Existing and Emerging Clinical Data Standards and Commercial PHR Data Repositories
Comments off
“Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), in collaboration with the California HealthCare Foundation, Project HealthDesign is a $5 million national program of PHR systems. Administered by a national program office at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Project HealthDesign’s goal is to design and test a variety of PHR tools and applications that work together […]
Comments
National Quality Forum Endorses National Consensus Standards for Health Information Technology
Comments off
“To improve quality and efficiency and reduce errors and unnecessary treatments across the healthcare system, the National Quality Forum (NQF) has endorsed nine new national voluntary consensus standards for health information technology (HIT) in the areas of electronic prescribing, electronic health record (EHR) interoperability, care management, quality registries, and the medical home. These HIT structural […]
Comments
Will PHRs rule the waves or roll out with the tide?
Comments off
“Rick Schooler, vice president and chief information officer of the Orlando (Fla.) Regional Health System, a seven-hospital network, has high hopes for electronic personal health records. In the future, he believes, portable, patient-controlled, Web-based PHRs will form the basis for regional and national health information networks and give providers access to comprehensive health data on […]
Comments
Aetna offers its PHR to Medicare members
Comments off
“Aetna has made its personal health record available to its current Medicare members who have purchased their Medicare plans individually.
By offering its PHR to its Medicare members, Aetna aims to engage members in managing their own health, as well as making it easier for them to share health information with their physicians.”
Article
Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT […]
Comments
What’s the buzz about Self-Monitoring?
Comments off
“One of the areas getting ready to grow dramatically in the near future is self monitoring. As countries face physician resource crises, patients are unable to find family physicians and chronic diseases become a greater burden on already overloaded healthcare systems, new processes and sytems will evolve to deal with the demand for care. A […]
Comments
Die entleerte Gesundheitskarte
Comments off
“Mit großem Rummel soll nächste Woche die Verteilung in Nordrhein verkündet werden. Doch die so genannte Gesundheitskarte hat nichts mit dem zu tun, was das Gesundheitsministerium den Versicherten versprochen hat.”
Article (German)
Ulrike Winter, RP Online, 28 August 2008
Comments
Schweizer: „Ja“ zum elektronischen Patientendossier
Comments off
“Ein elektronisches Patientendossier zur Identifikation der Patientinnen und Patienten mit allen aktuellen und bisherigen Daten über unsere Gesundheit: Wie nimmt die Schweizer Bevölkerung die vom Bundesrat beschlossene Einführung des elektronischen Patientendossiers auf?”
Article (German)
Krankenhaus IT Journal, 27 August 2008
Comments
Editorial: High-tech health care for Michigan
Comments off
“Tying computers together into a common network to share health care information will improve patient care in Michigan and inject some cost-savings into an increasingly expensive system.”
Article
The Grand Rapids Press Editorial Board, 28 August 2008
Comments
BIDMC Makes it Official - Signs on to HealthVault
Comments off
“After the Cleveland Clinic, Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) was the next hospital system to allow their customers to export their health records from BIDMC’s homegrown “PatientSite” to Google Health. Yesterday, BIDMC announced that the customer now has a choice and may also export their records to Microsoft’s HealthVault.”
Article
John Moore, Chilmark Research, 27 […]
