Comments on: Health insurer offering free electronic health records to doctors in four states http://emradvice.wordpress.com/2007/04/24/health-insurer-offering-free-electronic-health-records-to-doctors-in-four-states/ EMR industry news for Small Practitioners Thu, 06 Aug 2009 09:47:37 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: passportmd http://emradvice.wordpress.com/2007/04/24/health-insurer-offering-free-electronic-health-records-to-doctors-in-four-states/#comment-480 passportmd Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:12:13 +0000 http://emradvice.wordpress.com/2007/04/24/health-insurer-offering-free-electronic-health-records-to-doctors-in-four-states/#comment-480 As a physician and the founder of PassportMD, Inc. a free personal health record service, we applaud the insurance industry for moving forward on this. There push and initiative will help bring the awareness to healthcare consumers of the importance of keeping personal health record on sites such as PassportMD.com. The reality though remains to be seen as to how many people actually give this information willingly to their insurance companies because of profiling concerns, treatment manipulations, health protocols, and ratings for risks. If consumers find that they cant trust their profit motives from their health insurers they may turn to the many alternative independents like PassportMD.com, KeepSeniorsHealthy.com , myphr.com, medicalert.org, and medefile. As a physician and the founder of PassportMD, Inc. a free personal health record service, we applaud the insurance industry for moving forward on this. There push and initiative will help bring the awareness to healthcare consumers of the importance of keeping personal health record on sites such as PassportMD.com. The reality though remains to be seen as to how many people actually give this information willingly to their insurance companies because of profiling concerns, treatment manipulations, health protocols, and ratings for risks. If consumers find that they cant trust their profit motives from their health insurers they may turn to the many alternative independents like PassportMD.com, KeepSeniorsHealthy.com , myphr.com, medicalert.org, and medefile.

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