Personal Health Records (PHRs) news from FierceHealthIT
NewsBlue Button logistics could make VA contest problematic
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is offering a $50,000 prize to anyone who can develop a personal health record (PHR) that uses the government's Blue Button download method to import Read more...
Markle survey shows strong consumer, physician support for 'blue button' downloads
Remember the idea of adding a "blue button" to EMR screens to make it easy to output personal health data? The Markle Foundation, which has been leading the campaign, has released a study showing Read more...
EHRs will support goals of accountable care organizations
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act encourages the creation of "accountable care organizations" to promote better care coordination, quality and efficiency. While ACOs are really just an Read more...
Health IT systems often overlook care management
When it comes to designing health IT systems, more than a few organizations may be missing the big picture in terms of integrating care management workflows into their technology. A new survey of how Read more...
Privacy, security 'tiger team' told granular consent technology is flawed
The "tiger team" formed to help HHS sort through some of the trickiest issues related to privacy and security of electronic health information is taking on perhaps its toughest task to date, namely Read more...
Health IT, data glut altering patient-physician relationship
Even with the vast majority of medical records still stored in paper files, health IT already has had a profound effect on the ways in which people seek and receive care, thanks to social networking, Read more...
Smart cards promote great efficiencies in Europe, Asia
In researching his book, The Healing of America, in which he promotes universal healthcare, Washington Post reporter T.R. Reid visited France to see how that nation's health system worked. Reid came Read more...
Revolution Health kills its PHR
So much for the Revolution. Revolution Health, a much-hyped venture of AOL co-founder Steve Case, is terminating one of its signature products, an online personal health record for the masses. In an Read more...
Iowa the first to receive Medicaid health IT planning grants
The Iowa Medicaid program is the first in the country to receive federal matching funds to help plan implementation of electronic health records under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The Read more...
Study: Paperwork discourages wellness visits by consumers
Given that an automation vendor issued the study, the conclusion isn't a huge surprise, but its conclusions are still pretty intuitive. According to research commissioned by IBM, one in four U.S. Read more...
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