PHR

How the digital divide affects patient portal adoption

The ability to use a patient portal or personal health record (PHR) service to view lab results, renew prescriptions and communicate with physicians...

Examining patient portal functionality

Last week I tried to use my primary care physician's patient portal for the first time. The server was down, so I couldn't log in. I was disappointed....

Trying to take a patient portal for a test drive

The patient portal is one of the cornerstones of 21st-century doctor-patient communication. Plus, with meaningful use requiring health care providers to give patients electronic access...

It’s been a bad year for PHR services

By David Schneider, Editorial Assistant Realizing that personal health records are difficult to sell, Microsoft and Google Inc. spent 2010 reevaluating their business models for PHR services. The two tech titans have had mixed success, and the coming years may bring further struggle. The...

The PHR buck stops here in Orlando

ORLANDO, FLA. -- This year we've heard a lot of conference speakers and seen many online and print experts pontificate about whose job it is to sell patients on the value of

Google Health returns with a focus on wellness

Google Inc. unveiled a revamped Google Health last week, shifting the focus of its personal health record (PHR) service from importing records to tracking personal wellness. Through the redesign,...

Medical bracelets: Not just bling when connected to PHRs

Between now and when we all have RFID chips embedded under our skin relaying medical information pertinent in emergencies, such as penicillin allergies, heart conditions, diabetes and prescription histories, medical...

HITECH naysayers come out of the woodwork

Ray Campbell, head of the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium (MHDC), probably didn't surprise many people last week at his organization's annual meeting in Boston when he outlined the many ways the HITECH Act-fueled national health IT...

Early adopters prepared for meaningful use, and other health IT news

For health organizations already wired for electronic medical records (EMR), meaningful use compliance involves merely keeping abreast of changes in the proposed rule....

Upcoming HealthVault offering from Microsoft to get clinical data flowing

A new version of HealthVault, expected to be released by Microsoft in the third quarter, aims to let personal health records (PHR) flow from patients to providers to hospitals and back again.

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