Strategically, MedKaz® is unique. It differs from all other approaches to medical-record sharing and coordination. Its business model is equally unique. MedKaz gives the patient control of all her records from all her providers, and the system to manage them, in one place — on a MedKaz mini drive she carries with her house and car…
A Hypothetical Story You’re driving to your office. You’ve got a busy day and many appointments. To your surprise, a “Road Closed” sign appears in front of you. You ask yourself: Should I take the detour, or return home? Clearly, the detour may make you late but you’ll still be able to conduct business that…
In the United States, we spend more than twice the average cost per capita on healthcare than do other wealthy nations, and get decidedly poorer outcomes.* These poor results are driven in large part by a crisis in our healthcare system that seriously limits our doctors’ ability to treat us properly when we get sick.…
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…
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…
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,…