Telus will let patients see their medical files online

[Lucinda]

http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Telu ... z0pclY5T58

Telus has announced a new consumer electronic health service that will give patients instant online access to all their medical files.

Taking a leaf from social networking, the new platform will let patients and their health care providers input and share information in a high-security, high-bandwidth online database.

It's a move Telus chief executive Darren Entwistle said will "revolutionize" health care. "Now, Canadians will have the ability to create, store and manage their personal health information across their computers and smartphones and, in the future, TVs," Entwistle said in an announcement at the e-health conference in Vancouver, which runs through Wednesday. "This will enable the secure transmission of this information to care providers as well.

"In a world where wireless network technology has enabled powerful mobile computing, their health information can be right at their fingertips, wherever their lifestyles or business travels take them because their smart-phone will accompany them."

Telus's new health space, which is being piloted with 750 Telus employees and will initially be available for health organizations and companies, is the first international deployment of Microsoft's HealthVault platform. It's launching with 12 partners and sponsors, including the Heart and Stroke Foundation, MedicAlert, Sunnybrook Health Service, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, the Asthma Society of Canada, the Canadian Diabetes Association, the Canadian Mental Health Association, Shepell-fgi and others in the health field.

Entwistle said the service is expected to be available for individual consumers by the end of this year.

In announcing the service, Entwistle told a deeply personal story of how a failure to check health records resulted in his own father's death.

His father was undergoing chemotherapy for acute leukemia and his temperature was to be constantly monitored in case of infection. The monitoring wasn't done for some 18 hours, Entwistle said, and when medical staff found his fever spiking, he was given penicillin, despite his health records and a MedicAlert bracelet warning that he was allergic to the drug.

Patients would have access to their medical records, so if they move, see a specialist or end up unexpectedly in an emergency department, vital health information would be instantly available.

Parents would be able to start and maintain health records for their children and the children of aging parents would be able, with their parents' consent, to keep track of their medical records.

"Physicians can also make medical recommendations that do not involve interpreting another doctor's handwriting. Furthermore, parents no longer need to feel helpless when manila folders are misplaced during their child's treatment."

Entwistle said he sees the service as potentially being available across a range of models, from subscription-based for consumers -- much like we currently sign up for mobile phone or television service, to a corporate model in which companies offer it to their employees as a benefit, to joint public-private sector initiatives.

Dr. Ahmad Zbib, manager of consumer e-health for the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario, a partner in the Telus' health space, said the new service will empower people to take charge of their own health.

"This is a transformation in the way people are going to manage their health in the future," he said. "We are looking at putting people in the driver's seat in managing their own health."

As an example, a cardio patient could have blood pressure readings that are taken at home uploaded to his or her personal health record. Using tools provided by the Heart and Stroke Foundation, the patient could be notified if the results are problematic and require a visit to the doctor.

Entwistle said the electronic system will improve the privacy of health records as well as the accuracy of those records. "I think electronic health records represent a quantum improvement over the status quo of what we have today," he said.

[Yury]

и?

[Kate]

Где смотреть гнилые зубы и испорченные печени каморчан?

[Lucinda]

и?

Ну таки опять-же, вдруг кто не видел такую интересную новость. Или так нельзя? Надо обязательно с собственными комментариями? Ну тогда прошу прощения

[akela]

Где смотреть гнилые зубы и испорченные печени каморчан?

Deas Island, 9 мая 2011 года. :)

[Yury]

и?

Ну таки опять-же, вдруг кто не видел такую интересную новость. Или так нельзя?

просто интересен мотив был... ну и отношение к новости конечно интересно, чем-то же она вас зацепила, если не поленились цитировать?

[Kate]

Где смотреть гнилые зубы и испорченные печени каморчан?

Deas Island, 9 мая 2011 года.

Ну не шмогла я, не шмогла. Когда теперь смореть?

[Waterbyte]

Где смотреть гнилые зубы и испорченные печени каморчан?

Deas Island, 9 мая 2011 года.

Ну не шмогла я, не шмогла. Когда теперь смореть?

девятого мая 2011 года. шонеясно? (с)

[Yury]

Где смотреть гнилые зубы и испорченные печени каморчан?

Deas Island, 9 мая 2011 года. :)

Ну не шмогла я, не шмогла. Когда теперь смореть?

девятого мая 2011 года. шонеясно? (с)

тут перечитай(с) бы подошел тоже

[Waterbyte]

тут перечитай(с) бы подошел тоже

с тщеславием - это тебе в яркие мемы

[Yury]

тут перечитай(с) бы подошел тоже

с тщеславием - это тебе в яркие мемы

я не настолько, лишь слегка...
хотя... вот все думаю предложить папе переименовать кладезь в хвостохранилище...

[akela]

Где смотреть гнилые зубы и испорченные печени каморчан?

Deas Island, 9 мая 2011 года. :)

Ну не шмогла я, не шмогла. Когда теперь смореть?

и я не шмогл. Но в будующее смотрю с оптимизьмом.

[simon]

. вот все думаю предложить папе переименовать кладезь в хвостохранилище...

Вы со своей горно-рудной терминологией постойте в сторонке.
А вон Дадли "бедмозвездно" благозвучное название для его ПМГ дал, а он почему-то не хочет ее переименовать
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaibatsu