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EHRs/PHRs
Connecting the Dots…Google Health Promises to Create AND Dominate Next Generation PHRs
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 entire universe like it.
While Google has not “officially” announced the details of GH, they’ve left a lot of clues. In this essay I’m going to […]
Physician EHR Implementation Is Doggone Difficult
Now that Medicare’s future direction for chronic care management has become murky, I’ve started to pay more attention to the many other demonstration/pilot projects that Medicare has in the works relating to chronic care.
In April Medicare announced roll out of its DOQ-IT U (Doctor’s Office Quality — Information Technology University), as a part of the Physician Focused Quality Initiative. DOQ-IT U is an interactive, Web-based tool designed to provide solo and small-to-medium sized physician practices with the education for successful […]
Google Gets It: Personal Health Information is Really Complex
I give Adam a lot of credit for this posting:
He acknowledges that health care is really complicated
He understands the dangers — that providing less than perfect information has the possibility of causing harm
He doesn’t claim to have all the answers
He asks for input
Many have been speculating about Google’s entry into health care. Read Jeff […]
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