by Vince Kuraitis and David C. Kibbe, MD MBA
The health care and technology worlds are still trying to figure out what Microsoft’s HealthVault (HV) is all about. We believe that there are a number of misconceptions out there about what HV is and isn’t:
Misconception #1: HealthVault is a personal health record (PHR).
Misconception #2: People don’t trust Microsoft, [...]
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Would you like to have the experience of being parachuted into a deep forest with no map of where you are or clues about how to get out? If so, I suggest that you go directly to Microsoft’s new PHR at www.healthvault.com and just TRY to figure out where you are or where you’re headed.
Initial [...]
Google Health (GH) could be the event of the decade in advancing health care reform — not just healthcare information technology (HIT) reform, but health care system reform. GH promises simultaneously to create AND dominate the market for next generation personal health records (PHRs). There is nothing else in our solar system or in the [...]
Practice Fusion (PF) has announced a deal with Google to provide a free electronic health record (EHR) to physicians. The EHR will be supported by ad revenues from pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies and others. Read more here.
What’s the connection to care management and chronic disease? EHRs and personal health records (PHRs) are wildcards in the [...]
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