Not too long ago, health plans were still sorting out whether they wanted to cover telehealth visits at all. Now, many health insurers are not only covering...
Tag - Kaiser Permanente
I knew up front that it would be ugly. After two years of treatment, a chronically-ill patient like me generates a lot of records, and I had every reason to...
I don’t know about you, but before I signed up with Kaiser Permanente – which relies heavily on doctor-to-patient messaging via a portal – it was almost...
Being such an enthusiastic tech user, I tend to assume that adding technology to the healthcare equation is a plus in almost any situation. Why not automate...
As some of you may recall, I recently wrote a positive review of Kaiser Permanente’s use of consumer-facing health IT. (Kaiser Permanente is both my health...
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been recovering from a shoulder fracture. (For the record, I wasn’t injured engaging in some cool athletic activity like climbing...
Usually, particularly when I have complaints, I don’t name the providers or vendors who serve my healthcare needs, largely because I don’t want to let my...
NPR recently published an interesting piece on how some researchers are developing ways to leverage day-to-day medical information as a means of personalizing...
Two formerly competitive health data interoperability groups have agreed to work together to share data with each others’ members. CommonWell Health Alliance...
Some of you reading this are probably involved with a digital health startup to one degree or another. If so, you’ve probably seen firsthand how difficult it...
