OT: (or not?) What is the best PHR Personal Health Record service?

[keith smith]

Nice!!

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Keith Smith

--- On Tue, 3/12/13, AZ Pete <plug at cactusfamily.com> wrote:

From: AZ Pete <plug at cactusfamily.com>
Subject: Re: OT: (or not?) What is the best PHR Personal Health Record service?
To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>
Date: Tuesday, March 12, 2013, 9:20 PM


  

    
  
  
    FYI, the gov't (and plenty others) already know most everything
    about your health records.

    Ever hear of the Medical Information Bureau?

    

    "... In fact, what the Medical Information Bureau keeps in its
      computers is information about people. Specifically, every time
      you report a significant medical condition on an insurance
      application—anything from heart problems to skin cancer—the
      insurance company can report that condition to the MIB. The next
      time you apply for insurance, your “new” insurance company will
      pull your MIB file and find out what you previously reported...."

    

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIB_Group,_Inc.

https://www.annualmedicalreport.com/nobody-knows-the-medical-information-bureau-mib/

    

    So, since everyone but me seems to have access to my medical
    records, it's about time I get to join the fun...

    

    Peter

    

    

    On 3/12/2013 8:29 PM, keith smith
      wrote:

    
    
      
        
          
            

              

              "pieces of information scattered among the offices of
              multiple physicians, "

              

              Really?  What is our Primary Care Physician doing?

              

              And do you really want a central repository of your
              medical records for the Gov to poke into?

              

              What is the benefit?  Do you think the ER doc is going to
              read that stuff and take it for the final truth.  If they
              do, can you say law suit?  

              

              

              

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              Keith Smith

              

              --- On Tue, 3/12/13, joe at actionline.com <joe at actionline.com>
              wrote:

              

                From: joe at actionline.com <joe at actionline.com>

                Subject: OT: (or not?) What is the best PHR Personal
                Health Record service?

                To: plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org

                Date: Tuesday, March 12, 2013, 6:05 PM

                

                What is the best PHR Personal
                  Health Record service?

                  

                  Actually, this may not be OT as part of the question
                  is whether

                  *open source* options may be (or not) better than
                  commercial

                  options.

                  

                  Google abandoned Google Health.

                  Several PHR services have shuttered.

                  I would never trust micro$shaft with my health
                  records.

                  

                  So what is the best option now?

                  

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                  Interesting thoughts :

                  

                  http://health.usnews.com/health-news/articles/2009/09/16/switch-to-an-online-personal-health-record

                  

                  Personal medical records typically involve pieces of
                  information

                  scattered among the offices of multiple physicians,
                  prescription

                  data at different drugstores, folders full of receipts
                  and lab

                  reports in an overstuffed file cabinet at home. A
                  central repository

                  for all your health information from family history to
                  lab results

                  to cholesterol readings gathered from all the
                  disparate sources, and

                  ways to share it with doctors or other people that you
                  deem

                  appropriate.

                  

                  

                  

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