If most Americans used a personal health record to manage and control their health information online, the resulting cost savings to our U.S. healthcare system could be in the billions, according to  recent study.
Widespread adoption of interoperable personal health records could save the U.S. health care system more than $19 billion annually after expenses, according […]

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Check out this article I came across on Channel Web.
Writer Chad Berndtson does a good job of explaining the differences and similarities between Google Health and Microsoft’s Healthvault.
“They may be cutthroat competitors. But tried as their representatives did to explain the fundamental differences between two personal health record (PHR) platforms, Microsoft and Google also may […]

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I read with great interest that The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology is developing draft criteria for testing personal health records systems and plans to launch a certification program in July 2009.
Now, while I agree such criteria are crucial for consumer protection as well as setting the bar for the myriad of PHR products […]

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It’s always great to see the mainstream media bring the subject of technolgy and health care to the masses.
Just the other day the New York Times ran a piece, Keeping Your Own Health Chart, Online
The gist of the article focused on new tools that, “are being developed that may help harried patients, including those […]

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