PHR
Sharing Clinical Data, the First Step in Health Provider Collaboration
HealthCampBoston was an engaging one-day meeting of ideas and vision around overcoming the major challenges and false starts on the initiatives to improve healthcare. People with a wide variety of backgrounds were a part of the unconference, in which the attendees drove the agenda and discussions. These unconferences are now international, from London to Azerbaijan, and the next one is in May and promises to be no less stimulating than this one on Tuesday in Cambridge was.
Using Privacy as Currency: Bringing the PHR to Market
Non-functional requirements add overhead to projects. Right or wrong, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick recognized this and is contemplating bypassing reviews for Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) compliance for stimulus funded initiatives. Just as accessibility acts as an impediment to construction projects, privacy delays healthcare IT projects by introducing numerous complexities. Is it time to ignore the rules in order to bring innovation to market?
My Health History
My personal health records are scattered all over different doctor’s offices, hospitals, and boxes at home. Instead of waiting for my providers, health plans, and pharmacies to agree on, implement, and integrate EMR systems, I want to find out what I can do to have a better view of my own health history.
The task seems [...]
