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Archive for November, 2008

Engage With Grace

This wonderful project is written up in today’s Boston Globe .  Happy Thanksgiving all!
Vince
by Alexandra Drane and the Engage With Grace team
We make choices throughout our lives - where we want to live, what types of activities will fill our days, with whom we spend our time. These choices are often a balance between our desires [...]

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LifeCOMM: Will the Newest Personal Health Information Platform Play Nicely with Google and Microsoft?

Please read my guest post over at the Center for Connected Health .

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The Yabuts of Sharing Data Between Google Health and HealthVault

“What’s a yabut?” you ask.
Yabut is a term coined by my esteemed colleague, the late Paul Fetrow.  It stands for “Yeah….but….”
Yabuts are the gotchas, the fine print, the details that affect the terms of any agreement.  For example, the telecom companies will tell you its easy to switch carriers now that we have number portability.  [...]

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HWR at Colorado Health Insurance Insider

The Election Is Over Edition edition of the Health Wonk Review is now posted at Colorado Health Insurance Insider. 
Thanks Louise!

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Picturing the PHIN as One Interoperable Network

Will the Microsoft HealthVault, Google Health, and Dossia personal health information (PHI) platforms be able to exchange data?  In our introductory essay announcing the Birth of the Personal Health Information Network (PHIN), Dr. David Kibbe and I posed a critical question:
What will the PHIN look like?  Will there be multiple, non-interoperable, competing networks or just one interoperable [...]

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Disruption in the Neighborhood? The PCs Build the Medical Home.

There’s a new house being built in the vacant lot across the street.  It’s the medical home, and it is going to be occupied by several primary care physician families (PCs).
From what’s been said, the PCs are nice folks and will make good neighbors.  They’re friendly, many are Episcopalian, they like white picket fences, and they [...]

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