AMA and Microsoft join forces to improve communication and collaboration between doctors and patients

re: AMA and Microsoft join forces to improve communication and collaboration between doctors and patients

bill — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:49:09 GMT

Interesting, I would like to hear your take on how sites like <a href="http://breakingflus.com">Breaking Flus</a> may be able to help health care providers make more informed decisions by accessing streams of recent information about public health issues.

re: AMA and Microsoft join forces to improve communication and collaboration between doctors and patients

hlthblog — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:35:26 GMT

Thanks for writing. Today's healthcare providers receive information from a wide varity of sources. So long as the information is peer reviewed and/or comes from reliable sources, I'd say more information is a plus for today's busy healthcare professionals.

Bill Crounse, MD

re: AMA and Microsoft join forces to improve communication and collaboration between doctors and patients

Virinder Batra — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:06:36 GMT

How would Covisint portal get access to data from the Physician practice EMR. Will this require an export of data from the EMR to Healthvault?

Virinder Batra

re: AMA and Microsoft join forces to improve communication and collaboration between doctors and patients

hlthblog — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:25:59 GMT

Yes. HealthVault and our partners are working with many EMR vendors to develop the necessary connectors to HealthVault. Many of these already exist, and even without such connectors, we have many HealthVault partner applicaitons that make it easier for physicians and patients to exchange data. You'll find more information at www.healthvault.com and www.microsoft.com/hsg.

Bill Crounse, MD

re: AMA and Microsoft join forces to improve communication and collaboration between doctors and patients

hlthblog — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:27:08 GMT

Yes. HealthVault and our partners are working with many EMR vendors to develop the necessary connectors to HealthVault. Many of these already exist, and even without such connectors, we have many HealthVault partner applications that make it easier for physicians and patients to exchange data. You'll find more information at www.healthvault.com and www.microsoft.com/hsg.

Bill Crounse, MD