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Sunday, March 04, 2007Palm, Inc. (NASDAQ:PALM) and Tolven Inc. today announced the availability of open source electronic Personal Health Record (ePHR) solutions on Palm(R) Treo(TM) smartphones. The Tolven ePHR, an intuitive web-based application, lets users create, view, store and share extensive healthcare information, including medical history, medication lists, doctor’s orders, laboratory results and immunization records -- or simply monitor and capture blood glucose levels in the privacy of their homes. With Treo smartphones, patients, their families and clinicians can securely connect to health records via the Internet virtually anywhere.(1) "Imagine visiting your doctor’s office and not having to complete any forms when all of the information needed is already available and can be shared proactively with your care provider via your Treo smartphone," said Neil Cowles, chief executive officer for Tolven. "Putting this information securely in the hands of consumers encourages them to become more engaged in their care management. For healthcare providers, whether an office-based physician or nurse or the paramedic in the field, this solution promises to help avoid unnecessary risks and delays in treatment." It isn't clear to me how that would work. Do you just beam it over to the doctor's Palm device? Or does the doctor have to look up information on a website? How does it elminate the need to fill out forms? The basic information still has to get to the doctor's system - be it paper or electronic. This doesn't make it any clearer. posted by Sydney on 3/04/2007 07:45:00 PM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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