One of the most intuitive pieces I’ve read thus far on the evolution of the PHR appeared this week in the New York Times Health Blog. While the benefits of a PHR to the patient seem on the surface to be quite obvious and most of the discussion thus far of services such as Microsoft’s [...]
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Google vs. Microsoft Healthcare showdown
There is a very good post over on Vince Kuraitis’ eCare Management Blog that is worth a read for those following the development of the PHR market or simply interested in keeping track of whose winning in the Google vs. Microsoft showdown. Vince does a great job comparing and contrasting Google Health (GH) and Microsoft [...]
Personal Health Record Definitions
The Personal Health Record is an evolving concept and is certainly not easy to define. Most attempts so far that I have come across either lean toward the jargon laced and/or breezy marketecture or come in at the other end of the spectrum with a highbrow philosophical structure based on Plato’s theory of forms or [...]
MiCARD portable PHR
I saw an interesting post over on The Healthcare IT Guy Blog regarding a portable EHR called MiCARD. Basiccly it appears to be a modifed USB drive that looks like a credit card and can display your medical information on a smal LCD screen when activated. Clicking through to the manufacturer’s site I found the [...]
