Archive for September, 2008


09/01/08

Personal Health Records: Data you don’t want and can’t use (for now)

Even before recent product launches from technology giants Google and Microsoft, personal health records (PHRs) looked like they were well on their way towards becoming a breakout health information technology solution. In addition to Google and Microsoft, PHR vendors include health plans, hospitals and academic medical centers, physician practice groups, professional organizations, employers, and independent businesses. PHRs seem to be near a breakthrough in acceptance and use. Yet behind the scenes, the widespread adoption of PHRs remains at something of an impasse. Structural and legal issues Part of ...
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09/01/08

Making the Business Case for HIV Workplace Partnerships

HIV is everyone’s business; whether we want it to be or not. Yet after 27 years of the pandemic, AIDS is still not everyone’s concern. Too many people who should know their HIV status still don’t. Too many people who should be in treatment and care still are not. And after 27 years, far too many businesses remain untapped fighters in the war against HIV/AIDS because they did not know they could be asked, they did not know they should be asked, and too many public health officials did not know ...
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