Family
Suzanne Kantra, Digital Life on Today
“My family’s health record currently consists of a folder stuffed with — physicals, hospital forms, test results. I’ve been fortunate in that my kids have been healthy and they’ve all had the same doctor since birth, so I haven’t really worried about it. But what if something went wrong or we moved? Would I have a complete health record to share in an emergency or with a new doctor?
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10 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Family, Medical History, phr
Frank Irving, EHRWatch
“Healthcare providers using a new computerized family history tool may soon be able to screen expectant mothers for risk of problems during pregnancy.
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25 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Family, Medical History
“A new public education service in Kenya aims to increase knowledge about family planning. All one needs to access the service is a mobile phone. Launched in May 2010, the service, dubbed m4RH (Mobile for Reproductive Health), is taking advantage of the growing use of mobile phones and text messaging in Kenya to deliver automated information about reproduction.
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22 September 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Kenya | Tag(s): Family, mHealth, SMS
Bonacina S et al, Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2010
Within the arising and fast growing trend of the personalized healthcare, the promising Personalized Health Informatics (PHI) asks to be understood, modelled, implemented, and tested. The central idea of “keeping healthy lifestyle”, that grounds the development of PHI systems, needs to be extended to the digital family group, where the middle generation (the “parents”) manages the responsibility of taking care and improving the health of the weaker members (children and grandparents).
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15 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Italy | EHR: EHR | Tag(s): Family, Internet, personalised-health
Melton GB et al, J Am Med Inform Assoc, 17(3)
Family history information has emerged as an increasingly important tool for clinical care and research. While recent standards provide for structured entry of family history, many clinicians record family history data in text. The authors sought to characterize family history information within clinical documents to assess the adequacy of existing models and create a more comprehensive model for its representation. Models were evaluated on 100 documents containing 238 sentences and 410 statements relevant to family history.
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4 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | Tag(s): Family, HL7, Medical History
John Moore, Government Health IT
“The Department of Health and Human Services is reaching out to third-party personal health record applications to extend its Internet-based family history health tool.
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26 February 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Family, HealthVault, Medical History, phr
Daily Health Care News
“A personal health record (PHR) is a health record initiated and maintained by an individual. It can be in the form of a handwritten health diary, but in today’s information age it is most practical and efficient if it is based on a local computer with functionality allowing the exportation of data to a USB flash drive.
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15 December 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Family, Implementation, phr
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare Blogs
“During open-enrollment season for employee health insurance plans, employer consortium Dossia has added new functionality to the electronic personal health record that’s offered to millions of workers.
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27 October 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Family, Industry, phr
EMR, EMR Software, Electronicmedicalrecord's
“A new electronic tool that will put family medical history at doctors’ fingertips – alerting them to a patient’s increased risk for birth defects or pregnancy complications – will be developed through a three-year cooperative agreement with a $1.2 million grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration, Genetic Services Branch.
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9 October 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Family, Medical History
Jaan Sidorov, Disease Management Care Blog
“The Disease Management Care Blog is guilty of not paying that much attention to the flow of news about information internet techie killer ap stuff. It’s hard to keep it all straight, much of it seems either impermanent or futuristic, plus the 2.0 jargon is opaque. But when the New York Times Business Section and the Wall Street Journal Health Blog both mention a new healthcare computer thingy, the DMCB perks up.
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8 October 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Family, Health 2.0, Health Information Technology, Medical History, Medical Information, Self Management, Web
Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“An independent panel convened by the National Institutes of Health contends the industry needs to better understand how information from family health histories can be effectively collected and used in primary care settings.
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27 August 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Family, Medical History, Primary Care
theMobileHealthCrowd
“Cavit Sciences and its officers and directors have agreed to launch a new project or subsidiary company to profit from the growing need for electronic health records. The new division is to be called “My Healthy Lifestyle HRA.”
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16 July 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Family, Google-Health, Industry, Medical History, phr
Advance
“Major catastrophic events can lead to chaos, destruction and death. Now is the time of year when public awareness and preparedness are the best defenses against the high-impact storm systems that will sweep across many parts of the country.
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16 July 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): emergency, Family, phr
Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“Four organizations will build Web tools to enable physicians to collect consistent family histories from women of childbearing age and analyze the information.
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15 July 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Family, Medical History, Web
Kyle Hardy, Healthcare IT News
“Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, a not-for-profit organization providing care in more than 30 pediatric specialties, has launched a new Web site focused on a family approach to healthy lifestyles.
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1 July 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Children, Family, Lifestyle, Web
Anna Wilde Mathews, The Wall Street Journal
“Each year, when Dale Kagan’s cousins gather for the Rosh Hashana holiday, they catch her up on important family news like births and marriages — and the results of their colonoscopies.
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12 June 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Family, Genetic Data, Medical History
Mick Tan, Computerworld Philippines
“In the interest of creating a comprehensive and integrative sustainable national telehealth service system, Congressman Joseph Emilio A. Abaya of the first district of the province of Cavite stressed the need for the country to have a law pushing for a telemedicine bill that will facilitate collaboration between public and private institutions, and government and non-government offices.
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9 May 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Philippines | EHR: EHR, EHR Philippines | Tag(s): emr, Family, Telehealth, Telemedicine
Trisha Torrey, About.com Patient Empowerment
“Dr. Galson has achieved a few important things in his brief tenure as surgeon general. He has made some solid inroads on eradicating childhood obesity. And he has revised and upgraded the tool available online that allows each of us to record our family medical history.
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30 March 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Family, Medical History
Sheri Porter, AAFP News
“Physicians know the importance of completing the medical history section of each patient’s health record.
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30 January 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Family, Medical History, Patient
“HHS and the Surgeon General’s Office reintroduced what they described as an updated and improved version of a Web-based tool for individuals and families to create their own health histories while HHS also announced the launch of its Medicare personal health-record pilot for Medicare beneficiaries in Arizona and Utah.
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14 January 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Family, Medical History
