“As long as the rules don’t change and it’s only a one way street for the patient to download information, then this could be a good source of information to store insurance related data. That is one of the selling points of Google Health is that the patient has control over who can imageview the information. There are links on this site to both Google Health and the Microsoft HealthVault to get set up.”
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The Medical Quack, 25 August 2008
Tagged: Google Health, HealthVault and insurance
; posted on Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 at 8:40 am
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“This brings up one big issue, something I have been aware of for a while, collecting data for one purpose and being used for another, think this doesn’t happen, think again. When you sign up for health insurance, you sign you life away for all this data to be collected and reviewed for the process of qualifying for health insurance. Ingenix is a division of United Healthcare and one company who does this with profits of over 1 billion last year.”
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The Medical Quack, 4 August 2008
Tagged: data mining, insurance, insurer and privacy
; posted on Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 at 8:17 am
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“Health and life insurance companies have access to a powerful new tool for evaluating whether to cover individual consumers: a health “credit report” drawn from databases containing prescription drug records on more than 200 million Americans.”
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Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post, 4 august 2008
Tagged: data mining, insurance and insurer
; posted on Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 at 8:10 am
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“Munich-based technology provider Giesecke & Devrient will provide German health insurance fund Kaufmännische Krankenkasse and 28 corporate health insurance funds with 10 million electronic healthcare cards.
Giesecke & Devrient will dispatch the new insurance cards to the insured with a rollout scheduled to start in January 2009.”
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News.eu, 16 July 2008
Tagged: insurance and smart card
; posted on Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
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“Originally, a dashboard was a screen in front of a vehicle to deflect dirt, water, mud and snow. As vehicles evolved, “dashboard” came to mean the array of dials and gauges that kept track of the vehicle’s workings.
Enter the next permutation of the word: A 21st century IT dashboard is a computer-driven interface that gathers, organizes and presents information in easy-to-read, digestible form. Data are often displayed in graphic format, presenting a series of charts and gauges similar to a 20th century dashboard.
In health care, one of the most common uses of dashboard technology is for comparison — comparing clinical results of treatments, comparing hospital performance, comparing health plan offerings.
In the competitive world of health insurance, data for dashboard comparisons are usually delivered in a vacuum: Companies A, B and C provide information on their terms, in their language, and whoever is receiving the information has to make sense of it.”
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George Lauer, iHealthBeat, 7 July 2008
Tagged: comparison, dashboard, data storage and insurance
; posted on Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 at 9:25 am
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“The Norman Rockwell image of the doctor-patient bond, typified by an all-knowing, paternalistic doctor focusing on an admiring patient, has evolved into something very different. Now it’s a relationship in which patients, empowered by Internet-acquired information and buffeted by frequent changes in insurance coverage, have few qualms about challenging medical advice or moving on to the next physician. And no one has noticed this transformation more than doctors themselves.”
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Gail Garfinkel Weiss, Medical Economics, 20 June 2008
Tagged: clinician patient relationship, health information and insurance
; posted on Saturday, June 21st, 2008 at 10:39 am
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“Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts is the first health insurer to offer members services through Google Health.”
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Health Data Management, 12 June 2008
Tagged: Google Health and insurance
; posted on Friday, June 13th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
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“Victoria Grove wanted to find out if she was destined to develop the form of emphysema that ran in her family, but she did not want to ask her doctor for the DNA test that would tell her.
She worried that she might not be able to get health insurance, or even a job, if a genetic predisposition showed up in her medical records, especially since treatment for the condition, alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, could cost over $100,000 a year. Instead, Ms. Grove sought out a service that sent a test kit to her home and returned the results directly to her.”
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Amy Harmon, The New York Times, 24 February 2008
Tagged: DNA and insurance
; posted on Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 at 12:01 am
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