IBM and Google Health

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computer-hardwareAccording to MarketWire, February 5, 2009, IBM, Google and the Continua Health Alliance [CHA] announced new software that will enable personal medical devices used for patient monitoring, screening and routine evaluation to automatically stream data results into a patient’s Google Health Account [GHA] or other Personal Health Records [PHR].

PHR Value Extension

This breakthrough extends the value of PHRs to patients and also helps to ensure that such records are current and accurate at all times. Once stored in a PHR, the data can also be shared with physicians and other members of the extended care network at a user’s discretion.

Daschle and e-Health Reform

Of course,Tom Daschle’s recent decision to withdraw his nomination as the Department of Health and Human Services [DHHS] secretary clouds hopes that President Obama will make significant progress on health-care reform in his first 100 days in the White House. But the problems of unaffordable medical bills and millions of uninsured are not going away, and a deepening recession has more Americans feeling worried about their jobs and insecure about their health benefits.

Assessment

The breakthrough of this triumvirate extends the value of PHRs to consumers and also helps to ensure that such records are current and accurate at all times. Once stored in a PHR, the data can also be shared with physicians and other members of the extended care network at a user’s discretion.

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Office Based EMR Cost Report

A Preliminary BC/BS Cost-Benefit Analysis

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BlueCross-BlueShield of Massachusetts recently announced that it will not require physicians to install or use electronic medical records [EMRs] to participate in its new bonus program. The health plan came to the conclusion that the financial benefits of office-based electronic medical records systems are just not worth the cost to doctors.  

Little Office-Based Value 

Relying on information from past studies, the American Medical Association [AMA] estimated that office-based doctors see only 11 cents of every dollar saved through the use of information technology, according to AMNews reports. 

More Hospital Value 

But, the Massachusetts Blues did find value in health information technology [HIT] that physicians would need to use, as its own cost-benefit analysis concluded that computerized physician order entry makes financial sense in the hospital and enterprise-wide healthcare setting. 

Assessment 

The MA-Blues will require hospitals and health systems to install computerized physician order entry systems [CPOEs] by 2012, in order to participate in the bonus program.

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