kencam | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 30 2008 | Health, Microsoft, Technolgy
Quoted: Officials from Google Health, Dossia, WebMD and Microsoft discussed ways to engage both physicians and consumers during the Center for Connected Health symposium Monday in Boston.
Grad Conn, senior director for Microsoft Health Solutions. says technology has already made the information more secure by converting the data to digital form from paper.
Craig Froude, executive vice president for WebMD Health Services, said personal health records on his company's platform are accessed through either WebMD's secure Web site or a participating health plan's site - all of which meet HIPAA rules for privacy and security.
Jerry Lin, product manager for Google Health, suggested that engaging physicians is a "nut not cracked yet."
kencam | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 30 2008 | Google, Health, Microsoft, PHR, Technology
Quoted: "Twelve months ago, the most important things on American voters' minds were the war and health care. Two days ago, the most important thing on American voters' minds is the economy. Health care and the war have taken a backseat."
With an aging population, behavior-related chronic conditions, and expensive innovations, companies must help people address their specific personal health concerns with thorough, transparent and specific information... Effective health engagement can build trust, and conversely, trust is the key to deeper engagement.
kencam | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 30 2008 | Health, Microsoft, PHR, TechnologyQuoted: Starting next month, many enrollees in the insurer's plans will be able to move information from their Aetna "personal health record" -- an online repository of data that includes claims, diagnoses, test results and prescriptions -- to HealthVault.
kencam | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 01 2008 | Health, Microsoft, ResearchQuoted: “We’re excited to collaborate with Microsoft in utilizing Amalga, a new technology that opens up access to critical data currently stored in disparate systems, to help improve translational research,” said Dr. Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, division head, Division of Biomedical and Health Informatics at the University of Washington. “The Amalga tool will improve the ability of ITHS to provide our researchers with access to all of the data they need when they need it, allowing them to conduct their work faster and more effectively.”
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kencam | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 10 2008 | EHR, Health, Microsoft, RHIO, Technology
kencam | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 30 2008 | Google, Health, Microsoft, PHR, Technology
Chilmark Research Inc., a consumer health care I.T. research firm, has released a report that analyzes how personal health records technology from Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. already have changed the market for this technology.
Quoted: "PHR vendors are now directly experiencing the impact of this visibility with a significant increase in the number of requests for proposals from employers, providers and health plans. But with this increase in demand, consumer expectations will also rise, putting significant pressure on smaller, less capable PHR vendors and thus putting them at risk."
kencam | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 26 2008 | Google, Health, Microsoft, PHR, Technology
Quoted: Dossia, Google, Intuit, Microsoft, WebMD, AARP, America's Health Insurance Plans, the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Family Physicians - among other healthcare stakeholders - are endorsing the Connecting for Health framework created by the Markle Foundation's public-private collaboration.
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