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Thanks for the chance to comment again Fred. Being a new blogger with my own site I try and see what others are doing, keep up the news as best I can and throw my two cents in since I have been working in healthcare for some twenty years now. I don’t profess to be the Rosetta stone in healthcare by any means, and I usually get change from my two cents.

I see a lot of predictions as you mentioned, almost a Nostradamus of healthcare pandemic has touched off the new year. I suspect a lot more attention due to the elections. Everyone has their own thoughts on how the pendulum will fall.

Healthcare is a huge beast with many interconnected variables. You can’t change one part of it without it effecting all the others in some way. I think healthcare will stay exactly how it is in 2008. Coast will stay high, large numbers of people will still not have insurance coverage, emergency departments will still be over crowded, and insurance companies will continue to tighten the reimbursement ropes. Perhaps some financially strapped hospitals will go under or new health systems will emerge to try and pool recourses.

It is entertaining to see people at their crystal balls though :).

[…] Fred Fortin looks at various prognostications and offers a few of his own, including his skepticism about Health 2.0. Don’t see much of a business case for health 2.0 technologies, although personal health records as a concept has some validity, particularly as a service provided by health plans and employers. […]

Jan. 21, 2008

As a fellow Journalist and Director of Public Relations for MyMedicalRecords.com (“MMR”), I read with great interest your blog of Jan. 18, which mentioned electronic medical records and thought you would find MMR of interest. MMR has contracts with organizations covering more than 30 million lives to provide our services.

Contrasting MMR to other popular EMR products, MMR is delivering the most user-friendly, convenient and versatile web-based Personal Health Record available today. Using our proprietary patent pending technologies, complete patient information including actual lab test results, radiology reports and images, progress notes and all of a patient’s charts can be uploaded or faxed with annotated voice notes and comments directly into the user’s password-secured account. Users do not need to install any special software or use any special hardware to use our service.

MMR also has integrated other advanced features, such as multilingual translation, a drug interaction database of more than 20,000 medications, calendaring for prescription refills and doctor appointments, and private voicemail for a doctor’s message and other personal uses.

There also is a special “Emergency Log-In” feature that allows a doctor to access a user’s account to view their most important medical information in the event of a medical emergency. To ensure individual privacy, specific data, such as prescriptions, allergies, blood type and copies of actual medical files or images, are pre-selected by the user for inclusion in the online read-only Emergency Folder.

In addition, MMR also includes an online ESafeDeposit Box feature that enables users to securely store any important document in a virtual “lock box” and access them anytime from anywhere using an Internet-connected computer or PDA. These documents can include Advanced Directives, Wills, insurance policies, birth certificates, photos of Family, Pets and Property, and more. MMR is clearly one of the most complete user-friendly Personal Health Records available today.

I would encourage you to visit MMR and set up a complimentary account. Simply go to www.mymedicalrecords.com and sign up using registration code MMRMEDIA. I would be interested in your experience and hope that you will include us in any further discussions of Personal Health Records. I could also send you more information by email or snail mail (the latter allows a more complete kit, since I wouldn’t want to send more than a couple of comparative items by email).

Sincerely,

Scott S. Smith
Director of Public Relations
MyMedicalRecords.com
11000 Santa Monica Blvd. #430
Los Angeles CA 90067
888/808-4667
Ext 123 (Cell: 310/254-4051)
ssmith@mmrmail.com

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This is a very thoughtful piece. However, I think we should focus on the forest, not just the trees. As you mention in your seventh point, healthcare costs are out of control. And our free market will soon control them for us. This will happen in a very accelerated rate if there is an economic downturn, and employers need to cut costs quickly.
How can we stop our raging healthcare costs? We’ll need a complete shift in our society’s viewpoints: From expectation of perfection to the recognition that healthcare is not perfect; From attack and blame to acceptance of personal responsibility; And from self centered to group centered thinking. But this may take a long time.

[…] post, “Everybody’s Talking about the Future of Health Care,” by Fred Fortin over at the World Health Care Blog. The post focusing our attention on what may […]

[…] post, “Everybody’s Talking about the Future of Health Care,” by Fred Fortin over at the World Health Care Blog. The post focusing our attention on what may […]

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Telemedicine, online health care, and other telehealth technologies have the potential to substantially reduce costs of health care delivery. It’s good to see that a substantial proportion of this posting’s main points indicate widespread industry adoption of this type of technology.

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