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2 In the News: An Overview of Ingenix CareTracker EMR
Oct 1, 2010. Companies in Action, EHR Profiles, PHR, Spotlight.Ingenix is back in the news with recent CCHIT certification under ONC-ATCB meaningful use guidelines. As more companies are certified and the EMR/ EHR market begins to settle; larger players like Ingenix stand with an advantage. Over the next several months, we will be blogging about specific characteristics that make the most- recent versions of each record system competitive. With this in mind, we thought we would take a more in-depth look at what Ingenix’s EMR software, CareTracker, offers its subscribers.
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0 EHR/ EMR workflow and peripherals; different solutions for different practices
Sep 30, 2010. Dragon Medical, Health Information Technology, Implementation, Insight, News, Opinion, PHR.We all know about the conflict that is being played up about individuals and practices having to “adopt” or “learn new technology” for implementation of an EHR. Perhaps as an industry we are looking at the issue from the wrong direction. While Doctors and practices research the various options for EMRs, PHRs, digital data transmission and maintenance solutions; it is easy to get overwhelmed by the myriad of negative opinion. The focus should be on what different technologies should be added to the current workflow; not on how technologies will change the current workflow. In this light, transitions into cost saving technologies stand a better chance to be fluid and functional.
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0 Full attention given to patients thanks to Digital Pen and Paper
Jun 22, 2010. Companies in Action, Health Information Technology, Implementation, Insight, PHR, Spotlight.
“The new system reduces the time required to review and document each visit allowing more time to focus on patient care”, says Dr. George Brick, at Brandon Health Care.
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0 PHRs and Advance Care Planning
Apr 16, 2010. PHR.Do you know what April 16th is? It is the day after Uncle Sam collects his money, but more importantly, it is National Healthcare Decisions Day. The formal designation of National Healthcare Decisions Day is the result of a major effort from the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) and other national, state and community organizations to communicate the importance of advance healthcare planning.
NHPCO is providing information and tools for the public to talk about their advance care wishes with family, friends and healthcare providers, and complete written advance directives. Advance directives allow you to document your end-of-life wishes in the event that you are terminally ill or critically injured and unable to talk or communicate.
The NHPCO has developed state-specific advance directive forms and information on advance care planning through the Caring Connections program. Additionally, Caring Connections and Google Health™ partnered last year to increase the availability and accessibility of advance care planning information and resources online through the Google Health PHR.
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0 The Power of the Personal Health Record in Caregiving
Apr 9, 2010. PHR.The Personal Health Record (PHR) boom is reinforcing the idea of consumer-directed healthcare. Many assume that PHRs will be used for individuals to track their own healthcare, but PHRs also have the power to assist caregivers in managing the sometimes complex healthcare of a special needs child or an aging parent, for example. This particular benefit of PHRs may be especially important; as the aging population in the United States grows, there will likely be more caregivers involved in managing a loved one’s healthcare.
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1 National Health Information Exchange Making Progress
Dec 1, 2009. Government Initiatives, PHR.The ARRA is helping the Social Security Administration (SSA) expand its efforts to advance the National Health Information Network. After a successful year testing the National Health Information Network with MedVirginia- a regional health information organization serving Virginia- and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, the SSA is embarking on a 24 million dollar project to incorporate the Dept. of Veterans Affairs and the Dept. of Justice into its expanded health network. This interoperability would allow the SSA to more quickly process disability applications submitted by veterans.
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8 New Branches on the Family Tree: Website to Track Generations of Family Medical Information Sprouts
Nov 24, 2009. Insight, PHR.The traditional family tree represents branches of names from generations past. With Health IT, this image may sprout into something more complex to include family medical information. All too often, valuable family health information is not known and lost as part of a comprehensive health record. However, this information is vital as we advance in unlocking the human genome and identifying genetic markers as key predictors of disease. Realization of this problem has sparked the development of a new website, Health Heritage®, which will soon help people track generations of family health data.
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0 Personal Health Records at Your Fingertips
Nov 6, 2009. Health Information Technology, PHR.“Hold on please, my personal health record is calling…” We could see this coming: AllOne Health(SM) and Connectyx Technologies Holdings Group, Inc. has partnered to allow consumers to simply and securely view and manage health information on the Web, via portable USB storage devices and through their mobile phones. A package including both companies’ products will be sold in retail stores across the U.S. in December.
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1 Healthcare Consumers: Taking on the Clipboard Nation with PHR Technology
Oct 30, 2009. Health Information Technology, News, PHR.“If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.” – Mario Andretti
Are you going fast enough to catch up in the field of health IT? If clinical medicine putters to adopt health IT, consumers might very well independently surpass it with widespread adoption of personal health records (PHR).
A recent movement for consumer-directed PHR adoption was spearheaded by Howard University in Washington D.C. They encouraged hundreds of patients living with diabetes in the Washington area to adopt an online personal health record (PHR) from NoMoreClipboard.com. The results of this movement have been quite positive, showing consumers are actively using their PHRs to communicate with doctors and manage their diabetes.
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2 Google Health, a Personal Health Record (PHR) System
Aug 22, 2009. PHR.We’ve already discussed one free personal health record (PHR) vendor, Microsoft®, however, there are other PHR vendors out there.
Another company that everyone knows, Google, also has a service enabling individuals to sign up for their free PHR.
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