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NewsPHR data exchange must become 'seamless and invisible'
While vendor after vendor and publicist after publicist keep contacting a certain FierceEMR editor about how their personal health records are going to revolutionize healthcare by empowering Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Should Microsoft acquire an established EHR vendor?
Despite its many overtures to the healthcare market, Microsoft still doesn't offer a full-fledged EHR. Data aggregator Amalga, acquired in 2006, comes closest, but it and the PHR platform HealthVault Read more...
Lack of EMR data means continued consumer PHR apathy
We've been more critical than most when it comes to breathless hype surrounding personal health records, particularly the types of PHR that don't come directly from a provider organization. But the Read more...
Consumers won't trust government, vendors with health data
Finally, someone is talking about a different kind of healthcare reform than the debate that's raged for the better part of a year over expanding insurance coverage. And this part promises to be even Read more...
Social Security to join VA, DoD interoperability effort
The Social Security Administration will start sharing electronic health information with the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs early next year to help expedite claims processing for Read more...
| Press ReleasesCandelis and Microsoft Team Up to Empower PatientsPatients can access and control their medical imagesCHICAGO, Nov. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Candelis announced today that it has reached a definitive agreement with Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) whereby Read more >> |
