Author: Dissent

1. Kaiser Permanente and Microsoft Corp. have agreed to sponsor a study to determine the value of personal health records, conducted by the Center for Information Technology Leadership, the research center announced. Source: Modern Healthcare Online (registration  required) 2.  Seen on iHealthBeat, the results of a survey asking, “Do You Believe Your Health Plan Fully…

Seen at California HealthCare Foundation: The California Networks for Electronic Health Record Adoption (CNEA) program was initiated in 2006 to speed adoption and lower the overall cost of electronic health records (EHR) in California community clinics and health centers. The Blue Shield of California Foundation (BSCF), the California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF), and the Community Clinics…

Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s Keynote at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Annual Conference on February 28, 2008: There’s a demonstration of how the system works that starts about 25 minutes into the video.

Eric Wicklund writes in Healthcare IT News: The EMC Corporation has announced that it will be providing the information infrastructure solution for the new national patient record archives being built by the Social Insurance Institution of Finland (KELA). EMC, a global developer of information infrastructure technology with headquarters in Hopkinton, Mass. , will supply end-to-end…

In a press release, MyMedicalRecords.com writes: MyMedicalRecords.com, Inc. (“MMR”), a leading provider of Web-based Personal Health Records (“PHRs”), announced that it will be integrating with the Google Health platform, which is expected to be launched later this year. Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt, previewed Google Health at the annual conference of the Healthcare Information and Management…

Sarah Rubenstein writes in the Wall Street Journal: In a development that consumer groups say raises privacy issues, a growing number of hospitals are mining patients’ personal financial information to figure out how likely they are to pay their bills. Some hospitals are peering into patients’ credit reports, which contain information on people’s lines of…