Even Social Security is jumping on the bandwagon with allowing enrollment on the internet.  Recently I had also posted about Beth Israel Hospital in Boston working with Social Security on the exchange of medical records as relates to disability with their pilot program. 

Just like every other business today, the human time to sit down with each person for around 45 minutes is just not available at the pace we are moving at today.  There will be upcoming ads in the papers as well to promote.  BD 

Social Security likes PHRs too – wanting to work with EMR and PHR software with pilot program

Beth Israel is always on the cutting edge with technology.  As integration and transfer of medical records continues, Social Security has also  asked EHR and PHR vendors, health providers and payers to suggest how such a process could be set up, as most adhere to the CCR or HL7 imagestandards.  This makes sense for both, and especially the PHR today, since budgets and the economy are putting restraints on some areas of expansion with EMR/EHRs.

— The Social Security Administration, bracing for the coming eligibility of 80 million baby boomers, is introducing an online application that will allow people to apply for retirement benefits in as little as 15 minutes.

Social Security Commissioner Michael J. Astrue said in an interview the agency was completely overhauling its electronic services in recognition of the greater computer skills of future Social Security recipients and the need to more efficiently process the coming flood of applications.

"We just don't have the infrastructure to handle that workload in the traditional fashion," he said.

Here’s where you go:   http://www.socialsecurity.gov and click on "Filing Online for Retirement Benefits."

The Associated Press: Social Security begins taking online applications

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