Dec 12, 2007 | consumer health, Engagement, Uncategorized
Despite not having a personal health record (PHR) platform in the market, Google continues to get a lot of play in the press, at conferences and in the blogosphere. Not too surprising considering Google’s size, massive capitalization and the simple fact that...
Nov 20, 2007 | Connected Health, Engagement, Security, telemedicine, Uncategorized
Today’s Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has a fairly long article, by their standards, (section D, pg 1) on the use of cellphone text messaging to deliver health related information. Unfortunately, the article tries to cover too much ground going from texting for sex...
Oct 4, 2007 | Engagement, Uncategorized
Just saw over on the WSJ Healthcare Blog that Aetna’s CEO, Ronald Williams is claiming that Microsoft is just pushing “Vaporware” with its launch of HealthVault. Having already done some cursory analysis of the HealthVault site, I can confidently say...
Oct 2, 2007 | Engagement, Privacy, Security, Uncategorized
The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), a professional organization of over 50,000 members, will announce at its annual conference later this month their intent to further educate the public on Personal Health Records (PHR) by hitting the...
Oct 1, 2007 | Engagement, Uncategorized
how will a retiree manage their healthcare? Last week, GM avoided a long and costly strike with the United Auto Works Union (UAW) by reaching agreement on a number of issues but what is seeing the most interest is the agreement for GM to hand over responsibility for...
