As we age, managing our health becomes more complex. Multiple doctors. Medications. Specialists. Lab results. It’s a lot to keep track of — not just for seniors, but for their caregivers, too. Many times seniors are given the wrong medications, or asked to repeat tests simply because there is no record of the information in…
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Physicians enter medicine to care for people—not to scroll through disjointed records, battle with fragmented systems, or spend hours documenting care they barely had time to deliver. But that’s become the daily reality for too many clinicians.EHR overload, administrative burdens, and lack of access to complete patient information have fueled record-breaking burnout—and ultimately compromise patient…
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From newborns to centenarians, families today are managing care across multiple generations—and our healthcare system isn’t making it easy. If you’ve ever found yourself tracking down a parent’s medication list while juggling your own doctor appointments or hunting for your child’s immunization records before school starts, you’re not alone. Multigenerational care is the norm, not…
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Why have government healthcare systems — including the VA and DoD — poured billions of dollars into digitizing care, for decades with no results? Presently, in 2025, accessing a veteran’s complete medical history still feels like assembling a puzzle with missing pieces. The Problem? – Siloed Systems – Fragmented Care – Incomplete Access to Medical…
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For millions of veterans relying on the Veterans Administration (VA) for healthcare, a major challenge remains: disconnected medical records and poor care coordination. “The latest report from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs stated they will complete deployment of the Federal Electronic Health Record (EHR) system at nine additional medical facilities, bringing the total to…
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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. After struggling with paper, notes on her phone and disjointed records from providers, Elaine discovered that MedKaz was…
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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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