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.
Category: Health Data
EMC to build information infrastructure for Finland's patient records
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…
MyMedicalRecords.com Collaborates With Google on Personal Health Records
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…
Why Hospitals Want Your Credit Report
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…
Electronic health records touted
Dennis E. Curran writes in the Wyoming Business Report: A team of federal health officials visited Wyoming today to tout the economic and health advantages of using electronic health records and to urge Wyoming to apply for inclusion in a new electronic health records demonstration project. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in the…
Web site breach of The Dental Network exposes patients' information
A security breach of The Dental Network web site left access to member personal data, including names, Social Security numbers, address(es) and dates of birth unprotected for approximately two weeks. According to a letter dated March 10th to the New Hampshire Department of Justice, TDN discovered the breach on February 20th. The Dental Network is…