News Bureau 11-24 through 12-3
12/03/09
KRGV
Woman Fears Her Medical Records are in the Hands of Thieves
Grasiela Renteria is pleading to get a lifetime of medical records back. Everything from X-rays to doctors’ letters were stolen from the trunk of her car.
12/02/09
Healthcare Technology Online
Personal Medical Records (‘PHR’): Promise And Pitfall
The Personal Medical Records (”PHR”) movement holds out the promise of providing greater control and knowledge in the hands of individual consumers of health care who can maintain their own records and move them easily from provider to provider as needed or desired. It promises to improve quality by providing a new provider in either an emergent or non-emergent situation with a hopefully complete and accurate history of past diagnosis, treatment, laboratory tests, allergies, medications, family medical history, etc. which can be invaluable in effectively treating the patient. It also ought to eliminate some waste and duplication in avoidance of unnecessary tests and efforts to retrieve past historical information from vague and ill-defined sources.
12/01/09
The Huffington Post Investigative Fund
Can Cleveland Clinic Be a Model for Digital Medicine?
When Albert Giuliani wakes up each morning, he steps on a scale, takes his blood pressure and pricks his finger to test his sugar levels. Though he’s lived with diabetes and hypertension for decades, he no longer has to bother with pen and paper. The results are automatically uploaded to an electronic record that he and his doctor at the Cleveland Clinic can check anytime.
12/01/09
WISN
Wisconsin Takes Steps To Allowing Electronic Access To Medical Records
Wisconsin is taking steps to allow medical professionals to electronically access medical records from anywhere in the state.
12/01/09
Twin Cities Pioneer Press
Blue Cross workers try out health care in a virtual clinic
Dr. Eric Christianson advised Beth Piper on her medication Monday night — something that normally wouldn’t make news. But it was the first doctor-patient exchange of its kind in Minnesota…It was the first real test of Online Care Anywhere, a virtual clinic that Fairview Health Services and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota launched Monday.
12/01/09
Dallas News
Dallas-Fort Worth medical, business and insurance execs meet at summit
North Texas medical, business and insurance executives met for the first time Monday and agreed that they must work together to lower costs and improve quality without waiting for Washington to act.
