Category: PHR

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a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://symtym.com/images/phr/phr6.png”img style=”margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 351px; height: 204px;” src=”http://symtym.com/images/phr/phr6.png” alt=”” border=”0″ //aTim Sturgill, MD JD at a href=”http://symtym.com/”symtym/a provides an explanation and insight into the potential shift from silo’ed EHRs controlled by multiple providers to a a href=”http://symtym.com/2008/11/health-cloud/”Health Cloud/a centralized around […]

Malorye Allison
The October edition of the a href=”http://www.healthlawyers.org/Template.cfm?Section=Health_Lawyers_News1amp;Template=/TaggedPage/TaggedPageDisplay.cfmamp;TPLID=7amp;ContentID=3817″Health Lawyers News/a, a publication of the a href=”http://www.healthlawyers.org/”American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA)/a, contains an article I co-authored with a href=”http://www.gpmlaw.com/professionals/gerald-e-deloss.aspx”Jud DeLoss/a, a principal in the law firm of Gray Plant Mooty, who blogs at a href=”http://mnhit.blogspot.com/”Minnesota Health IT/a. On the eve of the a href=”http://www.health2con.com/”Health […]

Malorye Allison
Jen McCabe Gorman at a href=”http://healthmgmtrx.blogspot.com/”Health Management RX/a brought span style=”text-decoration: underline;”/spana href=”http://healthmgmtrx.blogspot.com/2008/10/breaking-news-congress-wants-to-create.html”attention/a to a new a href=”http://www.house.gov/stark/news/110th/legislation/200809-HIT/billtext.pdf”House of Representative Bill (HR 6898)/a focused on electronic health information introduced in the 110th Congress by a href=”http://www.house.gov/stark/contact/biography.htm”Congressman Pete Stark/a. The bill was a href=”http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/D?d110:18:./temp/%7EbdHfhQ:@@@Lamp;summ2=mamp;%7C/bss/d110query.html%7C”introduced/a on September 15, 2008, and is currently referred out […]

Lola Butcher
a href=”http://www.ixcenter.org/”Josh Seidman/a, president of Center for Information Therapy, of provides an update of the status of Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology’s (CCHIT) process for certification of personal health records (PHRs) over at a href=”http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2008/09/judging-persona.html#more”The Health Care Blog/a.br /br /CCHIT has published the first draft of the 2009 certification criteria for […]

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Bob Wachter on the Facebooking of medical records over at The Health Care Blog. Great thought provoking read for those in the health care world and who understand the powers of online social networking tools for communication.
Recently I just completed co-authoring with Jud DeLoss the feature article for the next AHLA Health […]

Scott MacStravic
Recently I was interviewed for an article looking at the legal issues involved in the developing world of EHRs and PHRs written by Beth Walsh for ADVANCE Magazine. The article, Looking at Legality: Medical Records - New questions and concerns are popping up around the legalities of EHRs and PHRs, appears in […]

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The recent announcement of the Common Framework for Networked Personal Health Information by the Connecting for Health collaboration lead by the Markle Foundation is just the next wave in what may be a tidal shift. The tidal shift is one centered on the input, control, ownership, and administration of health information […]

Scott MacStravic
On April 28, 2008, the National Alliance for Health Information Technology released its Report, “Defining Key Health Information Technology Terms,” to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
The report is an effort to get everyone working in health information technology to have a common understanding of and differences between […]