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Halamka, Microsoft's Crounse tout PHRs as 'electronic medical home'
The promise of personal health records is that they will put patients firmly in control of their own health data and make patient-centered care truly possible. Despite what you may read elsewhere,
When it comes to quality, word-of-mouth just doesn't cut it
Wednesday morning in New York, attendees at the Strategic Social Media in Healthcare conference will hear from the Pew Internet & American Life Project about how to engage "health
What are you hiding from patients in their medical records?
Many a physician is understandably apprehensive about entering the brave, new world of "meaningful use" of EMRs. After all, it's not easy to change the way you've done things for years. What they may
Practices will lose value if they don't adopt EHRs, says HIT coordinator
Kudos to InformationWeek's Marianne Kolbasuk McGee for scoring a comprehensive interview with Dr. David Blumenthal, who's been hard to pin down since he took the job as national health IT coordinator
Sure, we can empower patients with PHRs, but who can show the value?
We keep hearing how patient empowerment represents the revolution that healthcare badly needs, and that EMRs, PHRs, HIE et al are the tools that will help empower patients. NextGov reports that Dr.
UK halts Summary Care Record program
Last week, we reported about the anemically low usage rate of the Summary Care Record in the UK. Now, we learn that the national Department of Health would suspend uploading of any more patient
Consultant identifies shortcomings of widely available EMRs
We don't have to tell our audience that current EMRs are far from perfect. Besides, there are plenty of others far more qualified than we are to make that assessment. Count among them Jerry Buchanan,
Ease of patient access, privacy called central to 'user-friendly' EMRs
Dave deBronkart, the New Hampshire cancer survivor widely known as "e-Patient Dave," blew the whistle on the inaccuracy of claims data in Google Health PHRs at Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical
