CARE PROVIDERS AND MEDKAZ®

WHAT IS MEDKAZ®? MedKaz is a digital system that reimagines how to manage and share personal health records. Its unique approach makes it possible for care providers to practice better medicine and annually save tens of thousands of patients from unnecessary pain — even death — and billions of dollars. Instead of following the conventional…

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Who Coordinates Your Medical Care? The Answer Will Surprise You!

If you are healthy and rarely see a doctor, the question “Who coordinates your medical care?” probably doesn’t appear on your radar. But when you get sick, especially with one or more chronic illnesses, it becomes a major concern and source of great frustration because the answer for most of us is “no one!” Not our primary care physician. Not our specialists. Not our care givers, family members, or friends. No one!!

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Unique MedKaz® Features

Strategically, MedKaz is unique. Differs from all other approaches to medical-record sharing and coordination. Business model is equally unique. Gives the patient control of all her records from all her providers, in one place — on a MedKaz minidrive she carries on a keyring or wears. Smooths transition among care providers. Is a powerful communication platform. Patient has three…

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Time To Change Course!

By MERLE BUSHKIN With all due respect to the good intentions of Congress, HHS, CMS, ONC and their dedicated advisors, they are pursuing — and for years have pursued — the wrong approach to achieve medical record interoperability. Endless studies, reports and anecdotal evidence conclude that trying to standardize the way medical records are formatted…

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What is the “right” technology to provide medical record interoperability?

Prior Consensus For 19 years, the popular consensus among health IT, tech and government leaders has been that the way to achieve medical record interoperability is to connect provider-siloed personal medical records using health information exchanges (HIEs). Today, that approach has come to include: trying to standardize record formats and content, “cloud” storage, patient registries,…

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