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Blues Launch Slow-Down Campaign for Code Changes

“The BlueCross and BlueShield Association, representing the largest chunk of health care insurers in the country, is lobbying the federal government to slow down.
BCBS agrees that insurers and health care providers need to revamp the coding system used to identify diagnosis and treatment of millions of patients. All players realize that moving into a digital age will require fundamental changes in how information is stored and transferred.”
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George Lauer, iHealthBeat, 11 September 2008

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Prescription Data Used To Assess Consumers - No Privacy Unless You Pay Cash…

“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

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Prescription Data Used To Assess Consumers

“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

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Personal Health records, Electronic Medical Records, Electronic Health Records and the endless quest for automation.

“One of the most active areas for IT these days is in medical IT – hospitals, physician practices, health care providers.  Market leaders such as Siemens, Eclipsys, Cerner, and GE supply electronic medical records systems to hospitals and physicians.  A recent Wall Street Journal article noted that by some studies only 4% of physician practices are using EMRs effectively, if at all.”
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Jack, Executive Advisory Board, 7 July 2008

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Fingertip Health Care Histories

“That’s why Kerecz set up an electronic personal health record for each of her five children with Aetna, the family’s health insurer. The service lets her use her personal computer to access and update their medical records, giving her greater insight into ways to improve their care.”
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Greg Bordonaro, Hartford Business, 7 July 2008

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