PHR

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19 January 2009

Study finds US PHR use remains low

Despite high levels of interest, the vast majority of US citizens have yet to use or create a personal health
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23 December 2008

HL7 publishes draft PHR standards

International healthcare IT standards body Health Level Seven (HL7), has published the Personal Health Record System Functional Model (PHR-S FM)
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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 ā‚¬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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21 August 2008

Cisco sees return on staff PHRs

Managers at network technology giant Cisco Systems say the company is saving more than $4 for every $1 it invests
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6 August 2008

ICW says LifeSensor can handle 10,000 users

Simulated benchmark tests carried out on InterComponentWare’s LifeSensor personal health record (PHR) have shown that the system can handle 10,000
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20 May 2008

E-health 2.0: healthā€™s consumer revolution

E-Health Insider this week publishes a new research report on web 2.0 in healthcare. Lindsey Birnsteel reports.
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20 May 2008

Google Health launched

Internet search giant Google yesterday unveiled Google Health, its online personal health record service.
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23 April 2008

Mobile monitoring for Barmer customers

Barmer Ersatzkasse, Germany’s biggest health insurance company, has begun to offer its 7m customers mobile phone based fitness monitoring. The
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5 March 2008

German e-health projects win awards

An e-health project and a web service for patients were awarded the Best Practice Award, ‘More dialogue in cancer’, at
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