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Health 2.0: Susannah Fox, Pew Internet & American Life Project

2010-06-20T15:41:39.501Z

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Added: October 14, 2009 | Time 04:44 |

Susannah Fox from the Pew Internet and American Life Project gives her meme for this year’s Health 2.0 conference, which is if you’re not engaging patients, “you’re doing it wrong.” Watch other interviews with Susannah here on icyou.

Interview Location: Health 2.0 User-Generated Healthcare, San Francisco, October 6-7, 2009

Please Visit: www.pewinternet.org

Informatics: GE Healthcare at HIMSS10

2010-06-05T17:14:32.721Z

Health B2B Marketing interview with Chris Ward, Chief Marketing Officer for GE Healthcare.

Informatics: HIMSS - Practice Fusion - Ryan Howard, CEO

2010-06-05T16:50:04.185Z

At HIMSS10, Dr. Eric Fishman had the opportunity to speak with Ryan Howard, CEO of Practice Fusion. As an EHR product and service completely free to physicians, they review Practice Fusions unique place in the EHR market. Mr. Howard discusses how Practice Fusion evolved out of the need to assist small, cash constrained physician practices in adopting EHR systems. With the Practice Fusion business revenue model, the company is able to provide licensing, training, secure hosting, backup, and support completely free to physicians. Lastly, Mr. Howards talks about Practice Fusions upcoming product launches, such as Chart Share. Chart Share utilizes Practice Fusions complex back-end system to share real time data between physicians, which will be a key interoperability feature.

Informatics: HIMSS10 IBM

2010-06-05T16:47:10.277Z

At HIMSS10, Dr. Fishman had the opportunity to speak with Dan Pelino, General Manager of Healthcare and Life Sciences at IBM. Mr. Pelino explains that IBM is involved in several aspects of Health Information Technology. First, the company has partnered with many EHR vendors to help small practices identify which EHR solution is best for their specific needs, and it can also offer various hosting solutions. Second, IBM has the ability to help practices integrate their EHR system with referral networks. Third, IBM has embarked on a collaborative effort with the American Academy of Family Physicians and the American College of Physicians to implement pilot projects based on the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) approach. Mr. Pelino provides an a example of this pilot with the Community Care of North Carolina, which applied the PCMH approach to successfully prevent hospitalizations among asthmatics and saved 150 million dollars in the process. Dr. Fishman and Mr. Pelino close by discussing IBMs involvement in international healthcare systems, specifically the development of an Electronic Health Record system in Denmark.

Informatics: HIMSS10 Google

2010-06-05T16:44:30.091Z

Alfred Spector, Vice President of Research and Special Initiatives for Google Health speaks with Dr. Eric Fishman about Googles niche in the Personal Health Record (PHR) market. In the 2 years since Google Health launched, the PHR has become integrated with more providers of information and has made significant strides in usability. Mr. Spector talks about how Google Healths PHR helps patients gain an aspect of control regarding their health and healthcare.

As interoperability and sharing of health information becomes the new frontier for Health IT, Google Health is focusing the ability for bidirectional transfer of data between various Electronic Health Record, E-Prescribing, Laboratory, Radiology, and Insurance Company systems and patients Google Health PHRs. Mr. Spector also makes it clear that patients have a right to their own data, and Google Health could be a major part of the Patient Centered Medical Home approach. Mr. Spector closes by communicating Google Healths mission- as a Google company- to provide consumer value. Google Healths plans for the future include health goal tracking and integrated technologies to support health/wellness and disease monitoring.