According to iHealthBeat Monday, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced his intent to deploy a $100 million electronic health records system in the City’s 100 community clinics and 11 hospitals. These hospitals handle some five million patients each year.

[Original source: Government Health IT]

I guess I hadn’t been looking hard enough, but here is a site – sponsored by the American Health Information Management Association – that lists some 45 competing PHR products sorted by whether they are Internet-, paper- or software-based and how much they cost. Check it out at MyPHR.com.

The myPHR site gives you background on [...]

Over the past few weeks, I’ve added Matthew Holt’s Healthcare (“Everything you wanted to know about the healthcare system. But were afraid to ask.”) Blog to my list of daily reads.

Last Thursday’s post, “Did you need more evidence that being poor and sick is bad for your financial health?” cited an Access Point survey that [...]

That’s according to the California Healthcare Foundation’s most recent survey.

Interestingly, the CHCF had conducted a similar study in 1999 that showed 3/4s of Americans were concerned with their medical record confidentiality.

The new study shows that despite federal protections under HIPAA, 66% are concerned about the confidentiality of their personal health information and are largely unaware [...]

I don’t think I’ve posted on this previously, but I continue to be amazed as to how both sides of the political spectrum (it has two sides) are in agreement on electronic medical records and personal healthcare records. I don’t know where I saw (and I’m too lazy to look for) the article where The [...]