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Value of a Healthcare Community Network
Author: May, Roger; MacCornack, Rick
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 21, 2005
Introduction
Community connectivity, interoperability, and disease management are increasingly becoming hot topics at regional, state, and national level. There is a lot of talk in the government and the industry regarding the need to connect all healthcare stakeholders, including patient....
Securing Consumer-based Web Sites
Author: Weinberg, Douglas D.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2005
For many healthcare providers, the Web does not currently play a significant part in their marketing or business strategy. That is about to change as healthcare providers become increasingly aware of what other industries have known for some time—using the Web to communicate with consu....
Getting to the Good Information: PHRs and Consumer Health Informatics
Author: Campbell, Robert James
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2005
Linking PHRs and provider Web sites can connect consumers to relevant and reliable health information online. HIM professionals can help.
Each day more and more consumers are using the Internet to locate Web-based healthcare information. This activity has led to the rise of a new field o....
Patient to Partner: Will PHRs Change the Physician-Patient Relationship?
Author: Hagland, Mark
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2005
The PHR represents more than a consumer-managed health history. It’s a new way to see the consumer’s role in healthcare.
Sheryl Rose, RHIT, an assistant manager of HIM at Valley Hospital Medical Center in Spokane, WA, recently switched physicians. Following her first appointme....
Raising the Bar on Health Web Site Quality: New Standards Introduced in Version 2.0 of URAC's Accreditation Program
Author: DuMoulin, John P.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2005
With literally millions of health information sites on the Web, finding credible, timely health information online can be a roll of the dice. In 2001 URAC, an independent, nonprofit accreditation and certification organization, launched a health Web site accreditation program. It is the only....
But What Does the Public Think?: For Consumers to Adopt PHRs, They Need Reasons That Hit Home
Author: Morrissey, John
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2005
The industry knows why PHRs are good for the public. And the public knows, too. But are the reasons the same?
HIM professionals know medical records inside and out. It’s second nature for them to know how such records influence and direct the care of patients and how lack of thorou....
Keeping Online Personal Records Private: Security and Privacy Considerations for Web-based PHR Systems
Author: Srinivasan, Anil
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2006
As Web-based personal health record (PHR) systems grow in popularity, it is important that they be managed and maintained responsibly. Online PHRs must provide the same security and privacy controls required of other electronic systems that handle personal health information. This article pres....
PHRs for the Masses?: Consumers Say They Are Interested in PHRs, but Will They Use Them?
Author: Heubusch, Kevin
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2007
Providers, payers, and employers are excited about personal health records (PHRs), as are vendors, policy groups, and the federal government. But what about consumers, the half of the equation that will use them?
When asked, the general population typically says they are in....
Openness, Not Privacy: Web Site Promotes Sharing Disease Successes, Hardships
Author: Dimick, Chris
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2008
While most PHR services strive to keep user information private, one Web site encourages users to make personal information like HIV status and medication lists open on the Internet. In fact, PatientsLikeMe.com thrives on the openness of patients sharing their health information.
Laun....
Privacy Policies for Social Media
Author: Dimick, Chris
Source: Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: January 2010
Jan 06, 2010 05:23 pm
The social media site Facebook had become more than just a way for staff at Innovis Health to catch up with friends.
In November 2008, nurses at the Fargo, ND–based healthcare system began using Facebook to provide unauthorized shift change update....
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