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Survey: Doctors Lag in Providing Patients With Online Access to Data
Most patients are willing to engage with health IT tools, but many physicians say they do not have the capability to allow such interaction, according to a report from the Optum Institute and Harris Interactive, Healthcare IT News reports
Continue Reading >>Consumer Access to Health Care Information and the ONC: An Acronym at Work
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology of the Department of Health and Human Services held its 2012 Consumer Health IT Summit in Washington, D.C. this past Monday. The topic was the continuing effort to advance consumer access to health information.he focus of the summit was on the continuing effort to make health information more easily available to consumers.
Continue Reading >>Self-tracking and Personal Health Records Can Save Your Life
Laura Parsons had a Urinary Tract Infection which combined with a preexisting condition often seen as aesthetic, resulted in a complication that could’ve killed her.
Continue Reading >>What is a Health Record and Why Do We Need One?
A health record is simply a collection of health information (like your dietary habits, fitness, physical abilities/status, hormonal balance, age, weight, blood pressure, etc.) and medical records, those files that your physicians keep and update whenever you pay them a visit for a checkup, or go into the emergency room. A health record can save your life.
Continue Reading >>How Can I get a Personal Health Record?
You can keep an organized Personal Health Record securely and efficiently online to access it anytime, anywhere with Zweena. Zweena collects the records from your various doctors, digitizes them –leaving both a scanned copy and an accurate transcription of hard data- and upload it to your ZweenaHealth account.
Continue Reading >>Why Doctors want you to have a Personal Health Record
Doctors want patients to keep a record of their own health, because it makes it easier for them to react and provide a better prognosis with higher accuracy in treatment.
Continue Reading >>I love speaking with our customers
As a practice, I have members of my team set up brief 15 minute phone calls with our clients. I find that it is a great way for us at Zweena to learn why people sign up with us, how they found us, etc… The several conversations to date have all been enjoyable and both [...]
Continue Reading >>The Importance Of Structured Data In Personal Health Records
As an individual, a patient, why should I care about “Structured Data”, and what is it? To be clear, Structured Data in health care is everything. Or will be everything. Period. End of story. Today, most of us have medical information on paper, in a manila folder, on a shelf in your doctor’s office. The [...]
Continue Reading >>Passion For PHRs This Past Earth Day
When I first envisioned Zweena, and the role the company would play in helping individuals and families better manage and protect their health with online personal health records (PHRs), I was compelled and excited by how Zweena could empower consumers and create more positive health outcomes. On Earth Day last Friday, I was reminded of [...]
Continue Reading >>Parents & Personal Health Records: Do You Know The Score?
As a parent, our children have numerous athletic activities. Is it me or do sports feel more violent today than when I was young and competing? Sidelines are now adorned with kids in boots, on crutches nursing wounds. Today, being injured is not “if” but “when”. So having your daughter’s or son’s medical information readily [...]
Continue Reading >>Back to Body
Most guys my age feel invincible. Two weeks ago, I was brought down to my knees. Both my physical and mental activity were challenged and life was a struggle. After having spent the morning with my boys on the soccer field, I returned home to do some outdoor work. Starting up my chainsaw, I “tweaked” [...]
Continue Reading >>At HIMSS11, Size Matters
Reflecting on my four full days at HIMSS 11 in Orlando, “size” is what struck me most. I know we live in a big country, and I know we all get lulled into believing that “bigger is better”. But sometimes, small may be better. In the journey of building US Health IT, being big may [...]
Continue Reading >>HIMSS 11- The Maze Continues… Will I find The Cheese Or Not?
Is there a piece of cheese at the end of your maze? Everyone in Health IT today is looking for their piece of the cheese. Finding it involves journeying, and journeying involves leaving our own sacred spaces and venturing out in un-charted territories. In the US, Healthcare IT is on such a journey and no [...]
Continue Reading >>Transitional Care and Why Our Current Health System Fails Everyone
The fastest growing segment of the US population is people 75+ years of age. These proud Americans consume more health care because of their age. However, for those of us who are caregivers, or at least attempting to help in the care of our loved ones, our engagement can be very frustrating when multiple medical [...]
Continue Reading >>Dr. Blumenthal´s Departure: Next?
When the leader of the US Health IT effort announces that he is stepping down and going back to where he came from (Harvard), it made me think of two things: why and who is going to take his place. The announcement yesterday caught me by surprise. I know I was not the only one, [...]
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