The need for better electronic patient records has gotten a lot of attention lately.But compiling all that data is just part of the battle. Doctors and patients still have to know what to do with those records. So ActiveHealth Management, a unit of Aetna (NYSE:AEF) (NYSE:AET) AET, aims to go that extra step. It not…
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Patient privacy rights advocate attacks plans to mine medical records
From Health IT News: Deborah Peel, founder and chairman of Patient Privacy Rights, takes exception to a plan by Mountain View, Calif. -based Perlegen Sciences, Inc. to collaborate with an undisclosed electronic medical records vendor to identify and develop genetic markers that predict how patients are likely to respond to specific medical treatments. The New…
EMR vendor to share patient data with genetics research firm
Richard Pizzi of Healthcare IT News reports: Perlegen Sciences, Inc., a company exploring the clinical application of genetic research, plans to collaborate with an undisclosed electronic medical records vendor to identify and develop genetic markers that predict how patients are likely to respond to specific medical treatments. Under the terms of the agreement, Perlegen, based…
Social media the answer to pushing PHRs, experts say
Diana Manos writes on Health IT News: If the federal government wants to get the word out on using personal health records, it should strongly consider social media. Promoting PHRs will take a whole host of online and other technological multimedia strategies, experts told the consumer empowerment workgroup of the American Health Information Community Tuesday….
Medical notes sent to Buckingham Palace
Seen at EveningStar 24: AN NHS worker in Norfolk has become embroiled in a serious security breach after sending a patient’s medical records to Buckingham Palace by mistake. Highly confidential information was sent to the royal residence after the female member of staff typed in the wrong email address instead of sending it to a…
Former patient charged in computer theft from Indianapolis VA center
In an update to the arrest involving a computer stolen from the Roudebush VA Center, Jaikumar Vijayan of Computerworld reports that the man arrested is a former patient of that VA center.