PHRs

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16 July 2009

Vaulting ambition

The Conservatives may give commercial health record platforms a big role in their NHS IT strategy. But how are they
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6 July 2009

Tories may offer private record stores

Patients may be given the option to transfer their health records to Google or Microsoft personal health record platforms under
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19 November 2008

Interoperable PHRs could save US $21bn a year

A US study has projected that personal health records have the potential to save the US healthcare system €16.3 billion
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22 October 2008

Google joins Continua e-health alliance

Google has joined Continua Health Alliance, the Intel-led international coalition working to develop standards to enable interoperable e-health products and
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17 March 2008

ICW looks to integrate PHRs with iPhone

InterComponentWare (ICW) has announced plans to integrate the Apple iPhone and other smartphones with the Life Sensor personal health record
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28 February 2008

Google CEO unveils Google Health

The veil came off the world’s worst-kept secret in healthcare IT Thursday, as Google chairman and chief executive Eric Schmidt
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22 November 2007

Major trial of PHRs starts in Germany

Germany’s largest health insurance fund, Barmer, is working with InterComponentWare AG (ICW) on a three year research study looking at
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9 October 2007

Microsoft launches HealthVault

Microsoft has launched a major personal health record initiative based on a secure website that allows users to store and
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5 March 2007

Personal health records high on HIMSS agenda

Personal health records, patient identification, interoperability and, of course, quality were high on the agenda at the annual Health Information
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3 May 2005

Americans want personal health records

The majority of Americans want to be able to access an online personal health record (PHR), providing them with details
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