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The Wrong Way and the Right Way to Frame PHR Privacy/Confidentiality Issues
 Vince Kuraitis and David C. Kibbe, MD MBAÂ
During the past week two reports were released discussing privacy/confidentiality issues surrounding PHRs. One of these reports did it the wrong way; one did it the right way.
The general public is just learning about Personal Health Records (PHRs). We believe that the appropriate way to frame the dialogue for the public is to acknowledge both the benefits and risks:
Benefits: PHRs (and EHRs) have the potential to save lives, reduce medical errors, improve patient […]
Four Misconceptions About HealthVault and the Emerging Personal Health Information Ecosystem (PHI-Ecosystem)
by Vince Kuraitis and David C. Kibbe, MD MBAÂ
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, so they won’t sign up for and use HV.
Misconception #3: Patients don’t understand PHRs, don’t want them, and don’t know what they’d do with them. […]
Microsoft’s HealthVault: User Manual = C-, Strategy to Create a New Ecosystem = A
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 confusion put aside, I think HealthVault is strategically brilliant. While I’d give Microsoft a C- for explaining HealthVault (HV), I’ll give them an A for […]
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 […]
Practice Fusion’s EHR: Can Google’s “Endorsement” Overcome a Weak Business Model?
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 care management equation. You can look at this two ways: 1) The lack of EHRs and PHRs is a potential rate-limiting step […]
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