Seen at Health Data Management: A consortium of eight large employers, including Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., is slowly moving forward with plans to provide their employees with personal health records. The Dossia employer consortium, based in Portland, Ore., is testing aspects of the infrastructure, linking data from insurers, pharmacies and other sources to a central repository,…
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Medical Records Go Digital
Kathleen Kingsbury had an article in TIME on March 17th: The complex field of health-care information may soon be a little more streamlined. On Tuesday, Chicago-based electronic medical records provider Allscripts announced it has agreed to merge with British rival Misys PLC in a cash-and-stocks deal worth more than $1 billion. The new firm, which…
Discharge Summaries by Email from an EMR
Think about how wonderful the ability to send a discharge summary by email to a patient straight from your EMR. I think it’s pretty easy to see the tremendous benefits of this type of communication. Send the patient information to one place they probably visit every day and where they can read and process the…
Found in a standard medical release form
From the Dobbs Health Report: Found in a standard medical release form Actual text. Comments in parens. HEALTH OVERSIGHT ACTIVITIES. Our practice may disclose your PHI (personal health information) to a health oversight agency for activities authorized by law. […] RESEARCH Our practice may use and disclose your PHI for research purposes in certain limited…
Effort To Improve Patient Records Is Drawing A Crowd
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…
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…