Category Archives: PHR

PHR

The PHR Battle: Microsoft vs. Google (redux, again)

Posted on February 26, 2008 by Bob

Here in Orlando at HIMSS’08 Google is barely noticeable and Microsoft is making a huge splash. Even so, Scott Shreeve unabashedly declares Google the PHR winner in his Getting Giga Over Google (Again) post: My prediction: Google by a long … Continue reading →

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Personal Health Record Challenges

Posted on December 11, 2007 by Bob

The Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association has an article entitled The Early Experiences with Personal Health Records [Volume 15, Issue 1, January-February 2008, Pages 1-7] (found via Constructive Medicine 2.0). I’ve discussed PHR a number of times in … Continue reading →

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Healthcare Un-Interoperability

Posted on November 7, 2007 by Bob

Or maybe that should be “non-interoperability”? Anyway, I have ranted in the past about the state of the EMR industry. I thought I’d add a little meat to the bone so you could better appreciate the hurdles facing device interoperability … Continue reading →

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Health 2.0

Posted on October 22, 2007 by Bob

The Health 2.0 movement (also see here) is a comprehensive approach to many of the EMR/PHR topics I’ve discussed in the past. Scott Shreeve, MD (there are many good posts on his blog) proposes what he calls the “Triple-A of … Continue reading →

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Microsoft HealthVault

Posted on October 4, 2007 by Bob

Everybody is talking (WSJ-Health Blog, MedGadget, Health IT Guy, and many more) about the introduction of Microsoft HealthVault. This seems to be a step in the right direction for personally controller health records. The direct device interfaces are particularly interesting. … Continue reading →

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Personally Controlled Health Record

Posted on September 18, 2007 by Bob

Following my EMR-Facebook brainstorming post I ran across the IndivoHealth project (via WSJ-Health Blog). The announcement is that a consortium of large companies, Dossia, would be extending the Indivo open source core. Indivo has implemented the paradigm shift that I … Continue reading →

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A new model for EMR software: Facebook?

Posted on September 12, 2007 by Bob

There’s an article in the October The Atlantic Monthly entitled About Facebook (subscription required) by Michael Hirschorn. His contention is that Facebook is currently the site that “comes closest to fulfilling the promise of social media.” As I read though … Continue reading →

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Google, Microsoft, and Health

Posted on August 15, 2007 by Bob

I think the recent New York Time’s article entitled Google and Microsoft Look to Change Health Care missed the bigger picture. The article talks about other Internet companies (like WebMD), but it does not make any mention of the Federal … Continue reading →

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