Employers offer electronic medical data
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Five of the nation's largest employers plan to soon give their workers a unique health care benefit &#151; their very own electronic medical record that they can take when they travel, change jobs or see a new doctor.
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Blue Cross &amp; Blue Shield of Massachusetts plans to spend about $50 million to electronically link doctors, hospitals, and other healthcare providers in three Massachusetts communities, allowing them to share and access patients' medical records.
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Better health care and fraud protection may sound good, but are they worth the potential privacy trade-offs?
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MILWAUKEE _ When Janet Brabham wants to contact her doctor, she goes to her computer. Instead of making her way through a battery of voicemail prompts, receptionists and nurses, she sends off the medical version of e-mail. "For me, it's a great convenience," Brabham said.
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Doctors in Massachusetts would be able to access patients&#39; records from any hospital or clinic in the state by computer under an initiative announced Monday.
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IF YOU or staff at your firm are frequently off sick, then one of the first places to look for the reason could be your office computers, according to a leading UK cleaning and hygiene firm.
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Students design mobile data-access system for health-care workers.
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Blog: Is Google gearing up to offer online personal health records? One consultant and author in the electronic healthcare industry says the tea leaves point that way.
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Wireless companies are rolling out new GPS services for employers that can track the physical location of mobile workers.
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CHICAGO _ If you have a job, you have no privacy when it comes to using the office computer.  From monitoring e-mails to capturing instant messages among friends, employers can do as they see fit with the information passing through a company network.
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Forget about temperature taking and blood pressure checking. In the bright, near future, the first step for people seeking medical care may be to have their bicep read by an electronic scanner seeking data stored on an implanted chip.
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Doctors try to balance a patient's trust with new technology.
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The federal government today launched a program that provides increased Medicaid payments to doctors that use electronic health records.
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Like it or not, health savings accounts are coming soon to an employer near you.
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The Web is a window on personal lives, and employers can peer in.
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IBM on Monday will unveil software it developed in coordination with U.S. health agencies and private hospitals that makes it easier for health care workers to exchange clinical data in a medical crisis.
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An improved ability to share medical records electronically via IT systems is still many years away, according to health care industry officials who testified at a U.S. House hearing.