For the second afternoon session, I was excited to attending a session entitled “Integration of a Comprehensive Medical and Dental EMR System with Microsoft HealthVault Using Microsoft Silverlight and Microsoft Health Common User Interface”. I didn’t realize, however, that I was walking into a commercial for ushealthrecord. After getting past my initial frustration, I was [...]

Andrew Neslon, Executive Director of HealthPartners Research, presented on the history of PHRs, their current definitions, and test cases with Carlson Companies and Willmar, MN. Since the session is at MSHUG, the focus was on HealthVault.
Nelson explained that everyone in the medical industry (consumers, health providers, industry, health plans, FDA, pharma, governments, CMS, military) are [...]

Since the government will be posting the name of providers on a website that use an EHR as part of the HITECH stimulus package, I was thinking about what a patient would think of meaningful use should be. Here is what I think meaningful use should be as a patient, not someone involved in the [...]

TempDev has been a leader in EHR interoperability for years, through our relationships with Midmark and McKesson and our implementation of interfaces between EHRs and labs, radiology, hospitals, devices, registries, PHRs, and practice management systems. As EHRs become more established and the “meaningful use” provision of the HITECH stimulus begins to take effect, there is [...]

The other day, I posted a guest blog by Dr. Robert Rowley, Chief Medical Officer for Practice Fusion. In his posting, Dr. Rowley explains that Practice Fusion is approaching “EMR 2.0″ while NextGen and other client-server based applications are “dinosaurs”. While I completely agree with Dr. Rowley’s assertion that EMRs must evolve from stand-alone systems [...]

A couple of nights ago I tried to create a Google Health PHR and today I’m going to work on a HealthVault one. So far it’s like using Notepad vs. Word 2007. It completely feels like night and day. This may get long but I’m just going to walk write as I work through my [...]

So I’m working on creating a Google Health PHR because I feel like I should jump on the PHR bandwagon being in this industry and as I work on creating mine I’m going to provide my feedback.

I imported my prescriptions from Medco which I loved that I had the option to do. However it didn’t [...]

So with Google Health & Microsoft HealthVault large, respectable software companies are now getting into the Personal Health Record business. Can I just saw how nice it is to have companies like these these paying attention to health care? So I have an account for both, but I hate to say that I just don’t [...]