Category Archives: PHR

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Google Health: R.I.P.

Posted on June 24, 2011 by Bob

The announcement that Google Health was being discontinued shouldn’t be a surprise.  In March the Wall Street Journal reported that once Larry Page took over the CEO role at Google he would be looking to cut projects: Some managers believe Mr. … Continue reading →

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Hacking Your Own Health Data

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Bob

The MassDevice article Doctors to patients: Track your own health data has an interesting take on the  personally controlled healthcare record (PCHR). Keely Wray advocates that PCHR data should be “Hackable” (my highlight): I mean “hackable” in the sense of … Continue reading →

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A Medical Device Gateway Data Standard?

Posted on November 18, 2009 by Bob

The Wipro OEM medical device gateway press release makes it all seem so easy (my highlight): The device, consisting of interfaces that can feed-in data such as blood pressure, pulse rate, ECG reading and weight from the respective devices, is … Continue reading →

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iPhone Health Applications for Medical Professionals

Posted on November 1, 2009 by Bob

There are a lot of iPhone health and fitness applications available. Many are for the general public. Here are some vetted lists that target medical professionals: TPD’s List of iPhone Applications (73 by my count) 100 Awesome iPhone Apps for … Continue reading →

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Selling Anonymized Health Data

Posted on October 18, 2009 by Bob

The New York Times article When 2+2 Equals a Privacy Question raises some serious medical data privacy concerns. But by 2020, when a vast majority of American health providers are expected to have electronic health systems, the data mining component … Continue reading →

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Dreaming of Flexible, Simple, Sloppy, Tolerant in Healthcare IT

Posted on January 3, 2009 by Bob

I was recently browsing in the computer (nerd) section of the bookstore and ran across an old Joel Spolsky edited book: The Best Software Writing I.  Even though it’s been about four years, good writing is good writing, and there … Continue reading →

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Keeping Your Own Health Chart, Online

Posted on October 12, 2008 by Bob

The New York Times has a piece today that features the Zuri, Healthvault, and Google Health: Keeping Your Own Health Chart, Online The article discusses a number of uses for this kind of combined (medical device plus PHR) functionality.  Besides … Continue reading →

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Medical Devices in Home Health Care

Posted on August 10, 2008 by Bob

If a company like Intel gets involved you know that providing home health screening devices must be a big opportunity. Intel Health Guide is designed to be a comprehensive home monitoring service. In-home patient device. An online interface allowing clinicians … Continue reading →

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Google Health Launches: More PHR for the masses.

Posted on May 19, 2008 by Bob

It’s finally here: Drumroll, Please: Google Health Launches! If you use any of the Google applications (like Gmail), it’s just as easy as all the others: It will be interesting to see if this and HealthVault have an impact on … Continue reading →

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Health 2.0 — User Generated Healthcare

Posted on April 3, 2008 by Bob

This presentation (pdf) was given by Matthew Holt at the MS-HUG Tech Forum, Feb. 24, at HIMSS08 in Orlando (all presentations are here). There are many informative slides that cover EMR adoption, consumer health demographics, the progression of IT, Web … Continue reading →

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