Category Archives: PHR

PHR

Boston Children’s Creates Special Adolescent PHR

Posted on May 22, 2013 by Anne Zieger

Creating PHRs for adolescents is trickier than preparing them for adults. While childrens’ and adolescents’ PHRs are usually controlled by parents, there are some areas in which teens have a right to privacy, including any discussions about sexually transmitted diseases, … Continue reading →

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Guest podcast: Suzanne Leveille from OpenNotes

Posted on May 16, 2013 by Neil Versel

I now present the latest health IT-related podcast from Sivad Business Solutions, an interview with Suzanne Leveille, research director of OpenNotes, a project to give patients online access to the entirety of their own medical records, including the visit notes … Continue reading →

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Patient EMR Access May Be The Biggest Cultural Shift

Posted on April 15, 2013 by Anne Zieger

As most readers probably know, U.S. doctors are skittish about giving patients full access to their medical records. That fact was underscored by a recent Accenture study, which concluded that 65 percent of doctors think patients should only have limited … Continue reading →

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Hospitals, Health Systems And Clinics Adding Portals, But Consumers Not Synched Up

Posted on December 17, 2012 by Anne Zieger

With Meaningful Use Stage 2 requiring that 5 percent of patients use them, a growing number of health systems, hospitals and clinics have rolled out patient portals, according to a recent study by KLAS. In fact, 57 percent of providers … Continue reading →

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Patients Accessing Online Medical Records Use More Services

Posted on November 29, 2012 by Anne Zieger

In previous postings, I’ve noted that for various reasons, doctors using EMRs are tending to bill for more E/M services.  This has CMS in a bit of a tizzy, and definitely deserves attention from the industry. (See also this post … Continue reading →

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Contest Offers Prizes For CCD Redesign

Posted on November 19, 2012 by Anne Zieger

When EMRs are the gossip of the week at TechCrunch (a popular tech startup website), you know our little EMR thang has gone mainstream. And TechCrunch is indeed one of a series of sites trumpeting the news of a design … Continue reading →

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Adolescent Data Needs Stronger EMR Protections, Group Says

Posted on November 13, 2012 by Anne Zieger

The American Academy of Pediatrics is calling for changes to EMRs to protect the privacy of adolescent patients, whom, it says, don’t currently get the same level of protection as adults. According to the AAP, there are several reasons adolescents … Continue reading →

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Building Usable EMRs: What About The Patient?

Posted on November 12, 2012 by Anne Zieger

I think most of us reading HealthcareScene.com blogs like this one would agree that for EMRs to become more usable, the process of developing them will have to change.  Specifically, everyone seems to agree that if vendors and physicians don’t … Continue reading →

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My first portal experience

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Neil Versel

Yes, after all these years of writing about EMRs, EHRs, PHRs, patient portals and the like, I have had my first real personal experience with a patient portal, courtesy of my internist. He still has a small practice, with four … Continue reading →

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#EPICUGM 2012 Offers Tantalizing Hints

Posted on September 13, 2012 by Anne Zieger

This week Epic held its annual user group meeting (#UCG2012 or #EPICUCG), complete with a full-stage Journey tribute, Wayne and Garth and tantalizing promises of neat features to come. Because we weren’t at the conference, we took a dive into … Continue reading →

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