Comments on: Microsoft and Its Competitors Still In Search of Mainstream User Base for Personal Health Records

By: Personal health record

Personal health record — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:00:42 +0000

I believe Google/MS model is better than Web MD and other PHR companies. Just imagine iPhone without any apps. The same model is being adapted here. Once you open up your platform, creativity of the masses kicks in and thousands of apps will be developed in no time.

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By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:50:56 +0000

Its like anything. There isn’t any money in it unless it can be centralized and owned, therefore there is no motivation to produce software for decentralized health records, which is why even though Donald Lindbergh, Director of NLM, believes that people’s health records ought to be in their possession, stored in jump drives and not in massive repositories, it won’t happen.

By: Jeremy Engdahl-Johnson

Jeremy Engdahl-Johnson — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:39:46 +0000

Federal funding may be encouraging a move toward EHR, but there’s more to it than just installing systems. How can healthcare data pooling lead to a better system? More at http://www.healthcaretownhall.com/?p=1499

By: Medical Quack - Barbara Duck

Medical Quack - Barbara Duck — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:07:17 +0000

Part of the problem with getting people involved is the total paradigm shift that is going on with healthcare with more being shifted to the patient in getting involved, and of course training.

People are not flocking to get a personal health record started as they don’t quite understand the process and why. We need to train at every level. We don’t hear of any mentors touting their use, or very little to say the least.

I have addressed this many times over on my own blog and have over 200 posts on personal health records with many “how to’s” even and tried to build a resource to help people get started.

If there is little or no participation at the consumer level, it’s difficult to see the value. There has also been a flourish of many new offerings of personal health records that adds to the confusion, which one should I choose. Medical devices that report and collect data are also entering the system for both EHRs and PHRs and how to use them, and where is your data going? This item also has consumers very concerned and presents yet another level of questions.

How are the devices used and who gets the data, big question and again I have written about many of them as drug and insurance companies are pushing for compliance on taking medications and could this data have adverse affects with being covered with insurance claims.

Dr. Crounse from Microsoft wrote about the “training” needed for MDs and I took this one step forward to talk about every level needing training and education with personal health records. I have had the discussion about personal health records with executives at hospitals that say “huh” when I bring up the subject.

http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2009/10/one-hell-of-training-program-needed.html

We have two big battles here, educating consumers and also the big item of “trust” as consumers are being hit from all angles on this issue with new offerings outside of Google Health and HealthVault appearing every week.