Numerous studies have shown that the United States spends more than twice the average cost per capita on healthcare than do other wealthy nations, and gets 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…
Strategically, MedKaz® is unique. It differs from all other approaches to medical-record sharing and coordination. Its business model is equally unique. MedKaz gives patients control of all their records from all their providers, and the system to manage them, in one place — on a MedKaz mini drive they carry with their house and car…
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…
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,…