The California HealthCare Foundation released a new report last week: Just Looking: Consumer Use of the Internet to Manage Care [pdf]. From the introduction to the report: A recent Pew Internet and American Life survey showed that 80 percent of consumers search the Internet for health-related information. Yet their relationship to health information on the…
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Google Health: Birth of a Giant
Michael McBride writes in redOrbit: On Feb. 28th, at the 2008 annual HIMSS conference, Google announced its first product for healthcare – Google Health – a new personal health record (PHR) that will be free to use and available just about anywhere in the United States. To say that the news was received positively does…
PHR vendor launches "In Case of Emergency" program for mobile phones
Richard Pizzi describes a new consumer-oriented service from AccessMyRecords.com in Healthcare IT News. Enrollees would be able to activate a setting in their account that would allow their emergency health histories to be accessed from their cell phones in case of emergency so that first responders, paramedics, etc., could obtain vital information. This is an…
Gilbert couple receive strangers' medical records via fax
Gary Harper writes for 3 On Your Side: Junk faxes are always a nuisance, but wait until you hear what one Gilbert couple is receiving on their fax machine. This is kind of a weird one because the faxes are coming from an insurance company. What kind of faxes are we talking about? Well, how…
Kaiser completes outpatient EHR rollout
Bernie Monegain reports in Healthcare IT News: Kaiser Permanente has completed the rollout of its outpatient electronic health record system in nine states and the District of Columbia. Kaiser’s 13,000 physicians in 421 offices now have electronic access to their patients’ medical records. Kaiser officials bill the system, called Kaiser Permanente HealthConnect, as the world’s…
Finjan finds patient data on hackers' server
In its latest Malicious Page of the Month Report [pdf], Finjan, Inc. reports that it discovered … a server controlled by hackers (Crimeserver) containing more than 1.4 Gigabyte of business and personal data stolen from infected PCs. The data consisted of 5,388 unique log files. Both email communications and web-related data were among them. The…