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Archive for April, 2008

Health Wonk Review by Brian Klepper

The ever-gracious and ever-eloquent Brian Klepper has written up the latest rendition of the Health Wonk Review.  Check it out here on The Health Care Blog. …and check out Brian’s own website here.   Tags: eHealth

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Three New Reports On Aging and Technology

Older Americans 2008: Key Indicators of Well-Being, AgingStats.gov, Federal Agency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics Healthy@Home, commissioned by AARP and the Blue Shield of California Foundation State of Technology in Aging Services, Center for Aging Services Technology (CAST) These reports are succinctly profiled with links to the full studies at Profiles of older health care consumers: living longer, longing [...]

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Feds Call on Google and Microsoft to Breathe Life into the NHIN

Vince Kuraitis and David C. Kibbe, MD MBA Who is the federal  government calling on to breathe life into the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN)? Google and Microsoft. In our first article of this series describing the Personal Health Information Network (PHIN), we noted early entrants as Google Health, Microsoft HealthVault, and Dossia.  We also noted [...]

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