If you have been reading this blog of late, there have been many posts about personal health records, and now it seems those 2 companies that everyone seems to worry about related to security with PHRs, Microsoft and Google, are now working on a project with the military to create a personal health records program. You can almost bet there will be integration too between the HealthVault and Google Health, so hopefully the CCHIT will be able to certify their existence, after all if they can create software for the military that earns both of them one big score of brownie points, and both companies offer software and much of it for free that is secure to the enterprise and both free products have much more to offer than many of those I have seen on the web that cost money.
If you have not set up a PHR and are a physician and want to know what all this is about and how powerful and accessible it can be to get the patient records you need, bone up and set up an account and find out. It’s like trying to tell someone about how a chocolate bar tastes, you can’t really do that until you experience it yourself.
In a related story today, Bill Gates is also urging countries not to cut funds on healthcare.
I wonder if our leaders here are listing at the CMS and other government offices after reading this link below. BD
Court Blocks White House Push on Medicare Expenses
At this point, nether MHS nor Microsoft were willing to reveal what features would be included in the DOD PHR .But Jones wrote, “We are very excited about the potential of this new technology.” An initial version of the system is scheduled to be unveiled in Dec. 2008, according to an MHS blog posting last month by Stephen Jones, principal deputy assistant secretary of Defense for health affairs.
Microsoft Corp. is the lead developer in a partnership with the Military Health System and Google Inc. to develop a personal health record system for military health care beneficiaries, an MHS spokesman said.
The prototype personal health record will be “available to, and entirely controlled by, the patient, and at no additional cost to the beneficiary,” according to the Jones blog post. PHRs may include a number of different capabilities all or some of which may be included in any given system.
The Veterans Affairs Department unveiled a PHR called MyHealtheVet in 2003. MyHealtheVet is used primarily to provide health information to users and to refill drug prescriptions.
http://www.govhealthit.com/online/news/350653-1.html
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