VA Deploying mHealth Apps To Give Veterans Quicker, Easier Data Access
The Veterans Affairs Department plans to debut the first two of several mHealth apps providing veterans easier and quicker access to healthcare data via smartphones and tablets sometime early this...
View ArticleUsing the EHR and/or PHR to further Empower Patients
In her recent blog posts, Dr. Susan Woods talks about her personal journey on sharing notes with patients and how this affected her. You can also read more about the experiences of patients having full...
View ArticleTwo Studies Find that Patients Want Access to Their Health Records, Including...
Data from two studies here in the United States affirms that patients want access to their health records. Consequently, health systems are increasingly making it easier for patients to get access to...
View ArticlePresidential Innovation Fellow Position Created for 'Blue Button' Initiative
The extraordinary success of the 'Blue Button' initiative has led Steve Van Roekel, Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the U.S. government, and Todd Park, Chief Technical Officer (CTO), to create a...
View ArticlePatients Eager to Share Electronic Health Records with Others, Stanford/VA...
The patients have spoken: Nearly 80 percent of Veterans Affairs patients who participated in a survey would like to share their electronic health information with family members, caregivers and outside...
View ArticleOpen Health & VistA Champion To Be Honored at White House Ceremony
U.S. Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Todd Park is going to honor Matt McCall, a well-known champion of 'Open Health' and VistA, at a White House ceremony tomorrow, Thursday August 23. As Open Health...
View ArticleNew Big Kid On The Block: VA Joins OpenNotes As A Partner. Tipping Point?
Today the MyOpenNotes website announced the Veterans Health Administration joining the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation initiative as a partner. Providers partners [...] are fully committed to give...
View ArticleMy HealtheVet celebrates 10th anniversary
First it was my My HealtheVet (www.myhealth.va.gov), the personal health record [PHR] used by the Veterans Health Administration. Then it was BlueButton, which spawned BlueButton+. One way or another,...
View ArticleMy HealtheVet & Secure Messaging
The My HealtheVet portal created by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) enables veterans to create and maintain a web-based Personal Health Record (PHR). It also provides access to health...
View ArticleLocal Health Care Providers Embrace New Technology
For some of the area's largest healthcare providers, patient care is going to be impacted the most by what goes on behind the scenes rather than on the operating table in 2012. Information technology...
View ArticleHealtheMe: Personal Health Record & Wellness Management System
The open source HealtheMe personal health record (PHR) solution, developed by KRM Associates for use in many rural healthcare facilities across West Virginia, has just been turned over to the Open...
View ArticleEHR And The VA: Part II – My HealtheVet
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), a pioneer in the widespread, successful deployment of EHR, offers veterans access to their personal health records. [...] Hailed as a useful resource by...
View ArticleDo You Want to Be Able to Read and Share Your Medical Records?
Patients want easy access to any notes their doctor has recorded about them, and they want the right to let others view their medical information, according to a pair of U.S. studies. Advocates of...
View ArticleContest Produces Consumer Friendly Health Records
Competition focused on improving look of downloaded health records, and Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT hopes EHR vendors will participate in followup project.Read more in the full...
View ArticleCCSi Awarded VA Contract To Enable Rural-Area Veterans Access to Benefit Systems
CCSi U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs July 21, 2014Original URLCreative Computing Solutions, Inc. (CCSi), a leading provider of health services, program management, cybersecurity and enterprise...
View ArticleVA Deploying mHealth Apps To Give Veterans Quicker, Easier Data Access
The Veterans Affairs Department plans to debut the first two of several mHealth apps providing veterans easier and quicker access to healthcare data via smartphones and tablets sometime early this...
View ArticleUsing the EHR and/or PHR to further Empower Patients
In her recent blog posts, Dr. Susan Woods talks about her personal journey on sharing notes with patients and how this affected her. You can also read more about the experiences of patients having full...
View ArticleTwo Studies Find that Patients Want Access to Their Health Records, Including...
Data from two studies here in the United States affirms that patients want access to their health records. Consequently, health systems are increasingly making it easier for patients to get access to...
View ArticlePresidential Innovation Fellow Position Created for 'Blue Button' Initiative
The extraordinary success of the 'Blue Button' initiative has led Steve Van Roekel, Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the U.S. government, and Todd Park, Chief Technical Officer (CTO), to create a...
View ArticlePatients Eager to Share Electronic Health Records with Others, Stanford/VA...
The patients have spoken: Nearly 80 percent of Veterans Affairs patients who participated in a survey would like to share their electronic health information with family members, caregivers and outside...
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