TEFCA, short for the “Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement,” was established by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) under the 21st Century Cures Act of 2016. Initial drafts for the access and exchange of health information, were released in 2018 and 2019. TEFCA’s goal is to reduce the barriers for sharing…
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In today’s healthcare landscape, employers, insurers and government agencies, including Medicare, the DoD and VA, etc. are under great pressure to do more with less—improve employee health outcomes, reduce healthcare costs, and ensure workforce productivity. One game-changing tool that’s flying under the radar does just that: MedKaz®—a patented, portable personal health record system that puts…
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Managing healthcare can feel overwhelming, especially when multiple doctors, specialists, and hospitals are involved. For Elaine, a 62-year-old patient with a complex medical history, keeping track of past diagnoses, medications, and test results was a constant struggle. But everything changed when she discovered MedKaz®. A Frustrating Journey Through Disconnected Care Elaine had seen a cardiologist,…
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MedKaz Reimagines How Providers Can Share Their Patient Records, Opening the Way to Unimagined Healthcare Improvements, Savings, and Provider Profits. The traditional method of patient record sharing, called “interoperability,” aims to connect individual provider EHR systems “on the fly,” via networks, enabling seamless record exchange. The issue is the extensive, costly infrastructures needed, including patient…
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In prior articles we’ve discussed how you can use MedKaz® to streamline your workflow, enjoy interoperability, deliver better, coordinated, lower-cost care and reduce burnout. (See: We Can Enjoy Interoperability Today!) Now, let’s flip the coin and look at another critically important MedKaz® benefit— how it generates new profits for you and delivers an extraordinary ROI.…
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Medical records serve different purposes – as diverse as doctors treating patients, billing, and medical research. While these uses share the basic principle of data collection and storage, each use is different and requires different content and formatting. Doctors treating patients need “interoperability,” instant access to their patient’s complete medical record from all their providers,…
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WHAT IS MEDKAZ®? MedKaz is a digital system that enables care providers to streamline their workflow, practice better medicine, increase their income and annually save tens of thousands of patients from unnecessary pain — even death — and billions of dollars. It does so by reimagining how to manage and share personal health records. Instead…
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Why Are My Medical Records Important? Your medical history is a personal library of very important information that both you and your doctors need, particularly if you have multiple, chronic, or other complex illnesses. It is the blueprint of your health, encompassing diagnoses, treatments, lab results, and more. Understanding how to access your healthcare information…
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The closure of rural hospitals across the United States over the past decade has reached a critical juncture, leaving millions of Americans without access to vital healthcare services. According to a Becker’s Hospital CFO Report, 104 rural hospitals have closed since 2005 and 600 rural hospitals, which makes up about 30% of rural hospitals in…
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In today’s world a lot of people are “on the go.” They include: business people who travel regularly, tourists away for weeks at a time, students or researchers away for months, athletes who travel endlessly during their season, snowbirds who live part of the year in southern climates, migrants like farm workers or Indian tribes who live in different…
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