PHR – Personal Health Record Reviews
PHR Reviews
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Microsoft and General Electric team up to form a joint venture, Caradigm to modernize health care technology which will increase care efficiency and cut costs. Caradigm is a 50-50 joint venture formed by two of world’s largest companies: Microsoft and General Electric. It brings together Microsoft’s strengths in developing large-scale data platforms with GE [...]
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Google has discontinued its personal health record service – Google Health. This has analysts from around the industry questioning if PHRs are a workable source of information in their current form. Google Health used to take users’ medical records and bring them online. Users had to make personal profiles and add their medical information manually. [...]
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While the general adaptation rate of personal health records (PHR) is still low in the U.S., the health records are catching on despite privacy and other concerns, according to a new study released Tuesday by the California Healthcare Foundation. The results of a survey released today of thousands of users of electronic personal health records [...]
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Microsoft has licensed its HealthVault personal health record platform to Siemens in Germany. Siemens, through its IT services and solutions division, will be the exclusive provider of HealthVault in Germany. Germany will be the third country to adopt the PHR technology. A number of US healthcare organisations have been working with the platform, including New [...]
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Health services provider MediConnect is the new entrant to Personal Health Record business now after it purchased PassportMD for an undisclosed amount. MediConnect is a Utah-based company that retrieves and digitizes health records for insurers, lawyers and medical practices. MediConnect retrieves medical records from doctor’s offices, insurance companies and others, puts them in digital form [...]
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Practice Fusion Inc. the free, Web-based electronic health record service (EHR) for physicians, announced the launch of Patient Fusion, its free personal health record (PHR) today at Dreamforce 2009, salesforce.com‘s user and developer conference, held November 17-20 in San Francisco. Built on the Force.com platform, Patient Fusion currently gives over one million patients in the [...]
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The Florida state agency for Health Care Administration announced plans to launch a Web-based personal health record system for the state’s 2.6 million Medicaid beneficiaries. State agency believes that launching a PHR system helps improve the overall health of Medicaid users and reduces medical costs. The personal health record toll will give patients the ability [...]
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G.E.’s offers a vast pool of healthcare products and machinary. The company has now entered into the emerging PHR field and has come up with its own personal health record tool called “LifeSensor” Life Sensor is a software product that provides web based personal health records services. Unlike the major providers such as Google and [...]
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Press Release: Dossia, one of the personal health record providers, and a non-profit organization, today announced that the company has added a several new features to Dossia Personally-Controlled Health Record. One of the significantly new features include the capability to support personal health records for employees` dependents. Dossia will now provide lifelong personal health records [...]
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