August 17, 2012
Curious how health IT (EHRs, PHRs, HIE, etc.) will affect your trip to a hospital or doctor's office?
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June 27, 2011
By now, most of you know that Google has officially announced the retirement of Google Health. I’ve always thought Google was a great advocate for consumer health engagement and it's a shame to see them exit the market. At this stage in the game, any gains in the consumer health arena are gains for all parties involved and Google did a great job helping move this industry along. For the last month and a half, since Chilmark Research declared Google Health "in stasis," I've received a lot of questions about what the sunsetting of Google Health would mean for Cerner Health, Cerner's personal health management platform. First, I think it means anyone developing a personal health record needs to stop and ask whether they're making the same choices as Google did. It also means that there is at least some population of PHR users that would really appreciate a new home for their personal health information. Beyond that, I'm not sure it means a whole lot.
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May 10, 2011
Sports injuries are unavoidable. Much like hot dogs at the ball park, vuvuzelas at the world cup, and foam fingers and face paint at a football game, injuries are part of the game and always will be.Getting injured is easy. Tracking these injuries and managing the road to recovery is not. HealtheAthlete is a Health Management Platform that combines injury management, a Personal Health Record (PHR), and advanced reporting capabilities built specifically to manage the health of elite athletes.
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April 20, 2011
There they were. My new glasses, sitting on the floor, chewed up by a tough-looking pug who didn't care. Worse, I had a schedule full of meetings the next day and didn't have a spare pair of glasses. The next afternoon, I went to a local one-hour glasses shop in my prescription sunglasses and asked them to have my eyeglass prescription faxed from my optometrist so we could get new glasses started. That's when the fun began.
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March 22, 2011
Cerner has been working, in one form or another, on personal health solutions for many years. We've reacted with surprise when people don't end up engaging with our solutions as much as we'd hoped. Over the last year and a half, we've begun the journey to deliver a new stack of personal health solutions called Cerner Health. The Mission: create a personal health record (PHR) platform that lets people pull all their health information together in one place, and share it with their doctors, family, pharmacy, and other "health partners," as well as provide recommendations on how to live a healthier life. The Problem: most people don't know they want to do that. Or more likely, they just don't want to do that. Sure, there are people with a complex health condition or new diagnosis that provide them with an incentive to be interested in their records. However, this incentive might come too late. The person in the hospital suddenly really wishes they'd been better-managing their health records all this time.
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