Archive for the ‘PHR’ Category

Like many people out there, I’ve found myself running an HIE of me. I don’t mind being my own HIE, that’s great. I prefer having the control over my medical data. My issue is that the data is not easy to get in the first place, and it’s even harder to share with someone who [...]

Last week, as I performed my morning ritual of checking email and drinking coffee,  a subject line from my local police department’s notification system caught my eye. It read: Illinois Department of Transportation-Yellow Dot Program. Having been a Chicago-area resident for 36 years, I’ve been conditioned to assume whatever IDOT is announcing is going irritate [...]

In our series to date, we have been exploring the need for unified patient information management (UPIM). We’ve discussed the role that different healthcare stakeholders, including health plans and providers, play in making positive and long-lasting change in our healthcare system under the adoption of a patient-centric approach to information management.  In this final post, [...]

Each year, billions of pieces of health data are generated as patients visit the doctor’s office, go to the ER, undergo procedures and answer the requisite personal questions at each location. That doesn’t include the volumes of patient data generated by health plans, pharmacies, labs or even the patients themselves. Alarmingly, the majority of this [...]

“Privacy, security, and transparency are not separate issues but three axes of the same core dilemma.” Gary L. Thompson Can privacy kill? Although we can likely scour recent news to find cases where leaked information at Facebook has led to some unfortunate outcomes, this question is particularly vital in the realm of health information.  The [...]

Few are surprised by this NY Times headline – Google to End Health Records Service After It Fails to Attract Users. Rumors and expectations of this announcement have been in the market for several months now. Reality has struck. Google Health evaporates. As Lynne A. Dunbrack, an analyst at IDC Health Insights, pointed out in [...]

I recently had to request my medical records from former physicians and have them sent to a new specialist I’m seeing. It is incredibly important for me that my new physician has a comprehensive perspective of my health. I truly believe that if he doesn’t have a complete picture, his decisions may not consider the [...]

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I recently came across a reference to an iPatient. It was in a New York Times Op-ed piece entitled Treat the Patient, Not the CT Scan by Abraham Verghese, a professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine. The crux of his editorial was to maintain the focus on the patient rather than the electronic [...]

Last Saturday, I volunteered for a 5K with an organization called Girls on the Run. Girls on the Run is a fantastic organization focused on improving girls’ self-esteem by introducing them to the sport of running. The program meets after school, in schools across the country, to play games constructed around confidence building and physical [...]