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Web
services for health care
The
outsourcing of services to web-based companies is a significant
and growing trend across a range of fields. Already you can
record your diary and appointments with Amazon, rent hard
disk space from X:Drive, maintain a virtual office through
HotOffice - these are just a few, and more are coming
Telemedicine
Today Magazine
The
outsourcing of services to web-based companies is a significant
and growing trend across a range of fields. Already you can
record your diary and appointments with Amazon, rent hard
disk space from X:Drive, maintain a virtual office through
HotOffice - these are just a few, and more are coming.
Web services have now come to health care - direct to the
consumer, that is. A new site, www.PersonalMD.com, claims
to be the only Internet site to offer members a secure location
for maintaining their medical records. The service also gives
members a free PersonalMD-ER Card, which, like an insurance
card, is kept in the member's wallet and used by the physician
to access the member's information in case of emergency. Members
or their physicians can use PersonalMD.com's new e-file feature
to fax EKGs, x-ray reports, lab results and other information
into the member's record so it can be accessed along with
other pertinent data.
The site also provides volumes of original content and customized
information. Very sexy, very hot, and a pioneer site in what
may well be the most significant healthcare trend of the first
decade of next century: patient sovereignty over medical records.
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