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Key players agree on PHR framework
A group of the leading lights in the PHR world have come together to endorse a PHR standard, potentially putting to bed the initial arguments over what a PHR actually is and shifting participants' Read more...
AT&T, Covisint and Microsoft plan to expand health network nationwide
AT&T, Microsoft and Compuware subsidiary Covisint have announced plans to create a nationwide health information exchange which expands on a smaller network already in place state-wide in Read more...
Google, Microsoft PHRs sign health plan partners
The PHR war between Google, Microsoft and rivals seems to have reached a new stage, with Google and Microsoft scoring major insurance partners this week. Google Health has just recruited its first Read more...
A new paradigm for EMRs--publishing
Over the last year or so, an aggressive little health IT startup in San Francisco has drawn a fair amount of press for its size, including a mention in the New York Times. The company, Practice Read more...
Are your PHRs safe?
We've said it before and we'll say it again: The fact that several of the PHR initiatives launched Read more...
HIMSS08: Google unveils details of PHR
So, the Google boys have marched into town with their own PHR, which they demonstrated last week for a marveling crowd at HIMSS08. At a modest booth on a side alley at the exhibition, Google was Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: World Privacy Forum sounds alarm over PHR services
As we've discussed elsewhere, companies like Google and Microsoft (plus many smaller competitors) are determined to establish a beachhead in the personal health record space. That has some privacy Read more...
Microsoft renaming, upgrading healthcare offerings
Hoping to develop a stronger presence in the healthcare arena, Microsoft has renamed its enterprise healthcare technology products--and has set plans to integrate and upgrade them over the next year Read more...
Addressing ID verification could spur PHR adoption
If providers adopted a set of common practices used for validating the identity of online consumers, not only would their records be safer, it's more likely that the PHR would become popular, Read more...
Medicare tests PHRs in South Carolina
Working with a group of outside contractors, CMS is testing a PHR program on 100,000 Medicare participants in South Carolina. To run the implementation, CMS is working with Gaithersburg, MD-based IT Read more...
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