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Google Health and Microsoft Health Vault have the right idea, getting the vendors to data transfer in in there for the consumers, as none of us are going to sit down and enter everything manually, and then you have credible data you can share with another doctor. The big thing here though I think is with the consumer understanding the “sharing” concept and that is going to be a learning curve of it’s own.

I got in to a little hot water with the Surgeon General’s office about their software which requires an individual to manually type all the information into the record and it appeared they were upset enough to comment as I did a comparison between methodologies on Google and HealthVault versus their method:)

It’s nice to have your records just shot in there and be able to pull them up on any pc. When Kaiser turns on the faucet for all their members it’s going to get real interesting as their members already have been accessing their records online and when they go to a out of network MD with their records in HealthVault transfer, some doctors, hospitals and clinics who are not on any electronic system won’t know what to do with them.

HealthVault actually has a pretty good deal with a vendor for $9.00 a year for an inbound faxing service, so it takes care of all the low tech people being able to fax anything into the Vault, for that matter you can fax your grocery list in there if you want, not a bad internet faxing inbound service for the price.

The E-prescribing thing is getting hot too as the MDs will get 2% more on their payments if they use technology and there’s a free service they can use if they do not have electronic medical records, and the only bug in this whole deal is the DEA, who still wants paper on the 4 part script, go figure that one, as it’s easy to trace a data trail by all means. They do have a pilot program going with one hospital though for one area in the ER room area, but their last statement said it is going to take around 2 years of testing before they could be sure it will work and go paperless! What’s up with that, 2 years!

They all worry about security, but shoot I post about more government security breaches on health records than any others, so in it’s perspective, I’m not too concerned over security with Microsoft and Google!

Anyway, great video and I’ll get it posted in the next day or so, and I just did a pictorial on Google Health that shows some of the vendors they are using and shoot if you go to a Minute Clinic in the CVS stores, they can shoot all the records in there too with both Google Health and Microsoft Health Vault, so the mini clinics are up and ready to go with the records too. If you doctor uses the free e-prescribing service from Allscripts, which I feature the link on the blog, then you can have all your medication records shot right in to Google Health.

Healthcare is being shifted to the consumer in a big way and it is moving real fast too, almost too fast for many of the healthcare folks. You also have personalized medicine throwing everyone for a loop too as I still call it a Science, but there are some genetic tests that are on the market, but that’s a whole other issue of it’s own.

Good Post.