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Google announced a couple of integration agreements and technology additions for its Google Health product at this year'st HIMSS10 show in Atlanta, including an integration with e-prescribing provider Surescripts and a future collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
The problem of developing security mechanisms needed for management protocols and policy management of personal health information (PHI) remains largely unsolved, according to Gerald Masson, PhD, director of the John Hopkins University Information Security Institute, who spoke at an assembly hearing of the Health IT Standards Committee on Nov. 19.
The American Hospital Association (AHA), through its subsidiary AHA Solutions, has endorsed Extension’s HealthID, a secure smart card that holds individual patient data for use by hospitals.
Mayo Clinic and Microsoft have launched Mayo Clinic Health Manager, a privacy- and security-enhanced online application for storing personal medical information, where consumers can receive individualized health guidance and recommendations based on the clinical expertise of Mayo Clinic.
Although the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) provides an unprecedented $19 billion program to promote the adoption and use of health IT and electronic health records, spurring adoption will probably require more than financial carrots and sticks, according to David Blumenthal, MD, recently named as national coordinator for health IT.
Google needs better control of its advertisements and suggested links to avoid web pages that contain conflicting medical claims, warn doctors in an article published online in the British Medical Journal (BMJ).
The U.S. House of Representatives voted late Wednesday evening to pass President Barack Obama’s stimulus package of federal tax cuts and spending worth $819 billion, with more than $100 billion earmarked for healthcare—designating an additional $87 billion to existing state Medicaid budgets and approximately $20 billion for healthcare IT.
Personal health records (PHRs) could save $21 billion annually and could result in an annual net value of $19 billon based on a 10-year rollout and a usage rate of 80 percent of the U.S. population, according to a study from Center for Information Technology Leadership (CITL), a nonprofit research center based at Partners HealthCare System in Boston.
The Continua Health Alliance, a provider of interoperable healthcare products and solutions, has added Dossia and Google to its membership, and welcomed Charles Parker as its new executive director.
Dossia, Google, Intuit, Microsoft and WebMD have joined healthcare providers, payors and consumer and privacy groups to establish a set of practices for new internet services that help consumers track and improve their health. The framework defines practices that can help protect personal information and increase consumer participation in online personal health records (PHRs).
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Nuance Communications unveiled its advancements in natural language processing (NLP) and its medical mobile apps for smartphones at HIMSS10 last week in Atlanta.
Yahoo!, PayPal, Google, Equifax, AOL, VeriSign, Acxiom, Citi, Privo and Wave Systems have announced they will support the first pilot programs designed to implement a federal government initiative designed to make it easier for individual to register and participate in government websites. The companies will act as digital identity providers using OpenID and Information Card technologies.
Google should "come clean" and release the specific positions it advocated during its lobbying campaign on the economic stimulus law, according to the nonprofit group Consumer Watchdog.
Insurance data used by online personal health records such as Google's and Microsoft's are prone to inaccuracies, due to the diagnostic coding language or due to mislabeling.
Google has chosen the WebChart Enterprise Health EHR solution from Medical Informatics Engineering (MIE) for its onsite employee health clinics in Mountain View, Calif., and Kirkland, Wash.
The Washington State Health Care Authority has launched three consumer-managed Health Record Bank pilot projects in three regions of the state, in conjunction with Microsoft HealthVault and Google Health personal health record (PHR) systems.
The Department of Defense (DoD) has launched MiCare, the Military Health System's prototype personal health record (PHR) at Madigan Army Medical Center (MAMC) in Tacoma, Wash.
Officials at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have chosen four personal health record (PHR) vendors to participate in a pilot program for Medicare recipients in Utah and Arizona.
Allscripts has integrated its ePrescribe electronic prescription software with Google Health.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield (BCBS) of Massachusetts members will be able to
look up their healthcare claims and some medical records online this
fall via Google Health, the new healthcare web portal recently launched.
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The use of health IT to reduce rehospitalizations will be welcome but also disruptive, said Stephen Jencks, an independent consultant in healthcare safety during a Feb. 24 webinar on the potential use of health IT to mitigate rehospitalizations, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
During the Health IT Standards Committee meeting on Feb. 24 in Washington, D.C., the Clinical Operations Workgroup sought to gather comments on proposed recommendations on implementation specifications for content exchange, vocabulary and code set standards for the Interim Final Rule of meaningful use.
In 2006, the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), a branch of the FDA, began examining the number of medical device reports they received. Over the past two years, the number of submitted reports has increased, sparking a demand for the CDRH to make a move to electronic reporting.
A new hospital breaking ground usually isn’t breaking news. But the vision of patient care at one new facility, tentatively named Palomar Medical Center West (PMC West), is currently illegal under California state law.