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• Hospital’s struggle illustrates health IT woes

  
  Covering Health — Authority: 478
  The University of California San Francisco Medical Center has written off more than a third of the $50 million it has spent on a system to digitize patients’ medical records, according to an article by AHCJ member Fred Schulte for the Huffington Post Investigative Fund and American University’s Investigative ...
  5 hours ago

• VeriChip Buys Steel Vault, Creating Micro-Implant Health Record/Credit Score Empire

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  VeriChip (CHIP), the company that markets a microchip implant that links to your online health records, has acquired Steel Vault (SVUL), a credit monitoring and anti-identity theft company. The combined company will operate under a new name: PositiveID. The all-stock transaction will leave PositiveID in charge of a ...
  17 hours ago

• Medical Tourism – Inside and Outside the US Creating Pricing Competition Among Hospitals

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 534
  Everyone seems to think of medical tourism as jumping on a plane and going to a foreign country, not necessarily so, we have competition within the US with hospital marketing and pricing too.   With the current state of affairs with approximately 55% of the hospitals operating in the red in the US, the pricing ...
  3 days ago

• Survey on Surgeons Making Errors – Are Locum Tenens, Medical Migrants A Contributing Factor?

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 534
  There are a lot of surgeons doing this where they travel from one hospital to another, so get your records on a PHR so you are ready for this in case it happens to you.  They of course do their best but when they travel from one location to another and have to rely on paper records that they can’t preview and ...
  3 days ago

• MyPHR – Website that Explains and Answers Questions and Why You Need One Today and Tomorrow

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 534
  I get into conversations quite frequently about this and it is amazing that I still walk into doctors offices, hospitals and chat with individuals and they have never heard of a PHR, personal health record.  One time I was trying to explain what it was to staff members and the physician thought I was having ...
  4 days ago

• Californians Seeking Home Based Healthcare – Watch for More Monitoring Devices To Interact

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 534
  The California HealthCare Foundation now has a page for additional information and yes, just due to our population numbers in California it makes sense that we would have more individuals looking for Home Based Healthcare.  In short, this means devices are on the way, home monitoring, PHR or personal health ...
  4 days ago

• Survey reveals how much patient privacy is at risk

  
  Covering Health — Authority: 478
  Fred Schulte and Emma Schwartz of the Huffington Post Investigative Fund report on a survey in which 75 percent of health organization say patients’ medical records were put at “risk of improper disclosure.” The study, done for the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society , also revealed that ...
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• Health IT pros warn of network vulnerabilities during cyberwar

  
  News — Authority: 127
  Fans of doomsday scenarios, gather round. It may not be hackers that present the greatest threat to EHR databases, but terrorist groups or rogue regimes, a hospital IT director told federal officials last week. Testifying Friday before the federal Health IT Standards Committee, Chad Skidmore, director of network ...
  4 days ago

• VeriChip Buys Steel Vault, Creating Micro-Implant Health Record/Credit Score Empire

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 579
  Source: BNet VeriChip (CHIP), the company that markets a microchip implant that links to your online health records, has acquired Steel Vault (SVUL), a credit monitoring and anti-identity theft company. The combined company will operate under a new name: PositiveID . The all-stock transaction will leave ...
  5 days ago

• Remote Monitoring Yields Healthier Patients – More EHR and PHR Integration In The Works And Privacy Issues Should Be Addressed

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 534
  Earlier this year the company created a blue tooth chair scale for those who have problems standing on a scale.  As mentioned in the article, many insurance companies are not reimbursing for the use of such devices that report data, but there are some, such as CareMore in California who are.  With devices that ...
  5 days ago

• Identity Resolution Daily Links 2009-11-20

  
  Identity Resolution Daily — Authority: 119
  [Post from Infoglide ] Entity Resolution Metrics “In the last post we looked at the problem of measuring the accuracy of entity resolution processes.  As with any accuracy measure, comparing to a known standard of correctness or benchmark is required.  However, even without a benchmark, other measures are ...
  1 week ago

• Novel K-anonimity algorithm safeguards access to data

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 156
  (Childrens Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute) As electronic health records become more widely deployed, increasing amounts of health information are being collected. This data has many beneficial applications, such as research, public health, and health system planning. In a recent study, Dr. read more
  1 week ago

• Novel K-anonimity algorithm safeguards access to data

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 161
  (Childrens Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute) As electronic health records become more widely deployed, increasing amounts of health information are being collected. This data has many beneficial applications, such as research, public health, and health system planning. In a recent study, Dr. read more
  1 week ago

• Medicare Extends Personal Health Record Pilot Program – Magpie Healthcare Thrives, Where’s the Training and Education?

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 534
  I talk about this quite a bit here, especially since I am actively involved and have helped my own 85 year old mother with putting her records into a PHR.  I also was skeptical about the success when initially announced, again going back to lack of education and training.  PHRs are not just something you put out ...
  1 week ago

• HealthVault Product Manager Discusses HealthVault and How It Works With Mayo Clinic

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 534
  One of the product Development Managers from HeatlhVault discusses how he works with and uses the Mayo Clinic HealthVault software.  Anymore with all the products emerging in this area, one of the most important pieces of information to ask is where are my records stored as some others are a bit vague, so you ...
  1 week ago

• Office Ally Receives Electronic Health Network Accreditation – Privacy and HIPPA Compliance

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 534
  Just last week Office Ally announced new information regarding their PHR, personal health records, and security and privacy is something that is on everyone’s mind today.  With the EHNAC accreditation added, they have met the standards set forth so this goes forward to show the commitment to security and ...
  1 week ago

• Electronic Health Records, Your Data At Risk

  
  Natural Health News — Authority: 132
  I started posting articles about electronic health and medical records in 2006 on Natural Health News.  I am not in favour of this push in the arena of cost savings in the US health system.  To date little has been shown to indicate any effective improvment in healthcare delivery or cost savings, yet most of the ...
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• ICMCC: Perhaps the single most valuable e-patient info site

  
  e-Patients.net — Authority: 545
  In last weekend’s post about “patients want all their data” I said I wished I’d known about the article (published mid-May) during last summer’s health data debates in Washington. Incredible Dutch e-patient Lodewijk Bos tweaked me, saying he’d posted it the day it was released. That led me to ask him to ...
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• Identity Resolution Daily Links 2009-11-16

  
  Identity Resolution Daily — Authority: 119
  By the Infoglide Team Government Technology: California Plans to Launch Information Security Operations Center “The CA-ISOC would watch for attacks on the state government’s critical information infrastructure, including attempts to disrupt automated control networks for dams, power plants and other ...
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• Dream Team No Longer an Option to Save 2012 eHealth Objectives

  
  Enterprise Insights — Authority: 118
  With the resignation of Ron Sapsford this past week the regime that has been associated with eHealth in Ontario for the past five years has completely turned over. The last remaining person is Dalton McGuinty himself who, if he is planning to vie for a third term as Premier, will have to erase much of the last several ...
  1 week ago

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