Personal Health Records Archives

Health Information Exchanges - Access Your Medical Record While Traveling

This is a live demonstration of how the South Carolina Health Information Exchange (SCHIEx) can work for a patient when they are traveling. In this example to Austria.

The demo, presented by Port City Live, WLCN TV 18, Charleston, SC, features Charles Williams Jr. of Electronic Health Network and discusses how medical information was sent securely from the Charleston, South Carolina Electronic Health Network to Vienna, Austria.

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Google Health Closing it’s Doors

Google Health is shutting down. The reason they give is that they were not able to create the impact in the market that they wanted.  Google will continue to support the Direct Project protocol so if you have a Google Health account you can transfer your records to another site.  I'm not so sure this transferring of data ...

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Google recently announced that it will cease support of its Google Health personal health-record platform by the end of this year.  This means their huge foray into healthcare and  “Health 2.0” lasted less than four years. 6/24/2011 11:01:00 AM This somewhat surprises me as I figured Microsoft would have pulled the plug on HealthVault before Google ...

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Electronic Health Records: A Patient's Perspective

View more videos at: www.healthsciencechannel.com HSC 054 - Patients, and providers alike, strive to make patient safety a priority. Whether it's ensuring prescriptions are written and dispensed correctly, monitoring patients from a distance, or diagnosing patients in rural areas of the country, there are many ways to affect a patient's safety. This episode will highlight ...

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Employing a personal health record can decrease healthcare expenses because many of the healthcare dollars go toward the generation of information needed to make diagnoses and provide appropriate treatment.  With passage of HR. 3590, which will expand healthcare coverage to an additional 32 million persons by 2019, more patients will be establishing new doctor/patient relationships ...

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I am pleased to present Jeanette Borzo, this week's guest writer. Jeanette outlines the ideal physician practice of 2015 in a connected health scenario. To me, we have the technology to do this, but can we negotiate through all the politics and social issues? What's your opinion? Mark By: Jeanette Borzo ...

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