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

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 514
  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 ...
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• MyPHR – Website that Explains and Answers Questions and Why You Need One Today and Tomorrow

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 514
  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 ...
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• Californians Seeking Home Based Healthcare – Watch for More Monitoring Devices To Interact

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 514
  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 ...
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• VeriChip Buys Steel Vault, Creating Micro-Implant Health Record/Credit Score Empire

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 570
  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 ...
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• Remote Monitoring Yields Healthier Patients – More EHR and PHR Integration In The Works And Privacy Issues Should Be Addressed

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 514
  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 ...
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• Medicare Extends Personal Health Record Pilot Program – Magpie Healthcare Thrives, Where’s the Training and Education?

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 514
  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 ...
  5 days ago

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

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 514
  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 ...
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• Office Ally Receives Electronic Health Network Accreditation – Privacy and HIPPA Compliance

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 514
  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 ...
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• Medica Devices - FDA Recalled Davol Company Hernia Patches - Many Patients Were Not Notified

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 514
  Here’s a prime example of a story to where the hospital admitted they did not notify the patient, so again take a look at this link below and perhaps it may find some value.  One person died with the implanted devices according to this article.   We now have a class action suit with 100,000 patients over this ...
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• Dossia Off to Slow Start with Personal Electronic Health Records

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 704
  Health IT , personal health records , Software Ryan McBride wrote: Dossia is nearly three years from launching to provide electronic personal health records for major U.S. employers. And though the vision to provide employees of self-insured companies with a secure and portable electronic record of ...
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• Weight Scales Go Wi-Fi – Multi Users and Does Your BMI Too and Reports Data

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 514
  We have heard about blue tooth scales and now we can add one more, I guess this one needs an IP address maybe?  It does have a maximum limit on who can use it though, if you are over 396# find another scale.  It uses WEP/WPA/WPA2-personal security. It has an iPhone connection too and will send your results right ...
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• Office Ally Adds More Connectivity for Physicians and Patients – EHR and PHR Web Based Services

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 514
  If you read this blog often enough, under Physician’s Resources there’s a permanent link to the Office Ally website to reach their site.  In addition to offering FREE clearinghouse services, Office Ally also has a web based PHR and EHR medical record services.  What is nice about the PHR is that it allows ...
  2 weeks ago

• Florida To Offer Medicaid Enrollees a Personal Health Record Soon

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 514
  This is a start, but it appears that all information will need to be entered manually and can be printed out on a card format.  I remember software doing that a few years ago that I used to recommend before all of this became available online.  Down the road, all Medicaid claim data will be populated for the patient ...
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• Social Security To Start Sharing Electronic Records with VA and DOD in February 2010

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 514
  Records have been exchanged between Social Security and the VA, but it has been digital paper formats and not actual data.  The article also states that Social Security is about ready to show some demonstrations of mapping healthcare information to HeatlhVault.  The Health Internet – Government Looking to ...
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• AllOne Mobile Cell Phone Application To be Sold Retail by the End of the Year – Employer Focus As Well

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 514
  The move is certainly going in the direction of making personal health records truly portable.  A few months ago I wrote about AllOneMobile and now the service is connected to HealthVault. Also worth noting is the connection and focus on marketing the service to employers.  Again, this ties into wellness text ...
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• Studies Geared To Improving HIV Care And Prevention Supported By Federal Stimulus Funds

  
  Information on HPV — Authority: 146
  UCSF HIV researchers have received two NIH grants of $1 million each to study the use of web-based, patient controlled personal health records to improve health and HIV prevention outcomes for HIV positive patients. Both studies are funded through the federal stimulus bill, The American Recovery and Reinvestment ...
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• CAeHC webinair on FBIs Cyber Program

  
  Christina's Considerations — Authority: 119
  Those who are interested in health information exchange (HIE) privacy and security may want to check out the next  CAeHC webinar  on Tuesday, November 10 at 1:00 PST.  The speaker is Special Agent James Harris, supervisor of the FBIs Sacramento Cyber Program. Ill be driving back from an interview and hopefully (if ...
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• Adventures in Primary Care

  
  DiabetesMine: the all things diabetes blog — Authority: 556
  In the years since my diagnosis, I’ve often wondered why I needed a primary care physician.  Since my health is all about controlling blood sugars and staving off D-complications these days, I literally have only seen our family doctor two or three times in the past six years.  And then recently, we got a letter ...
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• TrialX Mobile – Free Software To Find, Locate And Enroll In Clinical Trials from an iPhone

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 514
  The TrialX mobile software looks very nice from the screenshots and is available for use for either a patient or a physician.  I have the TrialX Widget on the blog at all times you can also use to find information.   Clinical Trials keep getting easier to locate.  The software has been recently featured on USA ...
  3 weeks ago

• Gigabit Has a New iPhone Application – HealthSynch to Store Data on the Device And Later to Synchronize with Google Health PHR

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 514
  This current version of HealthSync does not sync yet according to the article but the next version will with Google Health.  For 99 cents at the app store, it’s almost free.  Gigabit is also the same company who works with Airstrip with their OBGYN software, which has been FDA approved for use.  BD  ...
  3 weeks ago

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