personal health record news from FierceHealthIT

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...

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...

In theory, it doesn't make sense to move ahead with major IT initiatives until the industry has at least some clue as to how to define key terms. However, a recent effort by the National Alliance for Read more...

Sound the trumpets: Google Health has launched its official public beta of its personal health record. While Google's offering theoretically goes head-to-head with products like Read more...

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...

After more than a year of wrangling--and one initial development effort gone bad--Wal-Mart and a team of fellow corporate giants are finally pilot-testing Dossia, their massive PHR effort. Right now, Read more...

OK, maybe some of you are sick of hearing me harp on this subject, but I'll ask again--what the heck is a personal health record? One view comes from America's Health Insurance Plans: "The industry Read more...

Health data standards group Health Level Seven (HL7) has begun accepting votes on whether or not to approve its Personal Health Record Functional Model (PHR-S), an interesting development given that Read more...

The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) is throwing its weight behind the PHR concept. AHIMA has set up a website, myPHR.com, selling Read more...

One of the nation's largest health insurers, Blue Cross of California, has joined the PHR craze. The Blue has launched an integrated wellness, care management and physician communication program--360 Degree Health--with its personal health record model as a central component. The program is intended to better reach the 20 percent of the health plan's members at greatest risk. Like other new PHRs, it's also an exercise in seeing how much useful information patients can actually be tempted …

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