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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 .
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. Yeah…but it will cost you $175 for an early termination fee.
Yesterday’s post ended with the optimistic observation that Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault have agreed […]
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!
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 network?
This question is being answered with the best possible answer: the PHIN is evolving as one, interoperable network.
Consider 3 scenarios:
Scenario One: Status Quo — […]
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 have barbeques on Sunday afternoons. The neighborhood they’re coming from is not as well off nor as pristine — they’re said to be suffering from […]
CCHIT Should Support BOTH the HL7 CCD and the ASTM CCR for PHRs.
The federal government sponsored Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT ) is undertaking a certification process for personal health records (PHRs) . The CCHIT PHR Work Group has invited public comment on the First Draft of the PHR Certification Criteria .
The current draft of the PHR Certification Criteria specifies use of the HL7 Continuity of Care Document (CCD) as the only endorsed standard for interoperable exchange of information to and from PHRs. This is extremely short-sighted.
I wrote a comment to […]
Empowering Health IT for the Medical Home
by David C. Kibbe, MD MBA
The basic premise of the medical home concept is continuous, uninterrupted care that is managed and coordinated by a personal provider with the right tools that will lead to better health outcomes.
In 2007, the American Academy of Family Physicians, American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Physicians, and American Osteopathic Association, released the Joint Principles of the Patient-Centered Medical Home. In this document they state the characteristics of the Patient Centered Medical Home:
Personal Relationship
Team Approach
Comprehensive
Coordination
Quality […]
Finally! CMS Provides a Flood of Details About the Medicare Medical Home Demo
I’ve been critical in the past when CMS has been silent in explaining their thinking, so I’ll start this post by congratulating CMS on sharing a flood of details about the upcoming Medicare Medical Home Demonstration project.
An email from CMS arrived in my inbox this morning at 2 am. That email notified me that they have updated the MMHD homepage . A quick click lead me to 8 new documents containing 155 pages of newly available details on the MMHD.
If you have time to read […]
“Bail Out the Fat Cats” Edition of the Health Wonk Review
Jason Shafrin of Healthcare Economist provides “700 billion reasons to read the Health Wonk Review ”.
Read about how the bail out might affect health care from the POV of:
Wall Street
Health Insurers
Healthcare Reformers
Doctors
The Uninsured
Kids
Implementing a Medical Home — Akin to Do-It-Yourself Brain Surgery?
This morning the Disease Management Care Blog brought an interesting toolkit to my attention. It was published by AHRQ in August 2008, so it’s very recent.
This toolkit describes how to implement the Chronic Care Model (CCM) in your medical practice. The CCM is embedded in the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model and can be consider a foundational element of the PCMH.
I would call this toolkit “The Medical Home for Dummies, Vol. I”, but then I’m sure the Dummies […]