Tuesday, August 12, 2008

The "Golden Age" of PHR's -now Medicare joins the mix

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is seeking benefiiciaries in South Carolina to participate in a pilot program to assess the benefits of using PHR's.

Consumer awareness is getting tagged from a variety of angles now...
Seniors and medicare beneficiaries through Centers for Medicare Services, Internet giants such as Google Health and Microsoft Healthvault promote this technology to Internet users, Health Insurance providers promote this to their covered lives from insurance giants such as Aetna, Cigna and United Health care health portals, and Academic institutions such as Cleveland Clinic promote it to their patients...lastly, politicians promote this safely as a bipartisan non controversial initiative...

What does this mean?

It means soon we will all know the importance of using this technology...for us that have been fighting awareness in the trenches for the last few years..this is the "golden age".