kencam | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 15 2009 | Health, Jobs, News, Technology
kencam | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 19 2009 | Health, PHR, Technology
kencam | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 30 2008 | Government, Health, HIPAA, Technology
Concerns still exist, but unique patient identifier may be an idea whose time has come, according to a Rand Corp. study released online today.
Quoted: It turns out that the compromise fashioned to adhere to the 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act [HIPAA] mandating the creation of a system to accurately identify patients has resulted in a system in which privacy is at risk, while not doing enough to prevent errors.
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 | EMR, Health, Technology
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 30 2008 | Health, Internet, PHR, TechnologyQuoted: MyPACS.net creator Rex Jakobovits said success in health 2.0 is all about building critical mass. “One that’s there, it’s self-perpetuating.”
kencam | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 13 2008 | EHR, Health, HIPAA, Technology
kencam | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 13 2008 | Health, Internet, News, Technology
Quoted: New tools are being developed that may help harried patients monitor their medications, home tests and other details. This is part of a shift toward a medical system that is more centered on and directed by patients themselves.
First, however, patients will have to become comfortable placing medical data like readings from home tests online...such programs are still under development, and all of this remains to be seen.
kencam | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 13 2008 | EHR, Government, Health, Technology
Quoted: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services collaborate with state agencies to give incentives to small practices to use health IT, with incentives totaling up to $58,000 per physician over five years or $290,000 per practice over five years
Physicians have until Nov. 26 to submit an application for the incentive. CMS, as of October, has received 18 applications, the organizations reported.
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