According to the Earth Times Front Range health care providers Kaiser Permanente Colorado, the Children’s Hospital and Exempla Health Care are now connected via a health information exchange.
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The Earth Times is reporting that Harvard Pilgrim has launched a health based social media site. The site well, then is designed to help member share health information.
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Claudia Tessier is one of the prime leaders in the mobile health field. She is founder and president of the not-for-profit membership organization, mHealth Initiative Inc. (mHI) and previously served as executive director of MoHCA, the Mobile Healthcare Alliance.

TPP: What is the current focus of your organization?
Tessier: mHealth Initiative is the leading organization promoting new communication patterns in healthcare through the use of mobile phones and other mobile devices (mDevices) in order to enhance efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare delivery. Our focus is on the ability of this mHealth phenomenon to enable participatory healthcare, which involves healthy people as well as patients, both wellness and care providers, payers, pharma, researchers and public health as active participants in a healthcare system that is open and transparent. 

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I am an implementation analyst/template developer with a large MSO, and we've been trying to implement NG EMR for over 3 years. I will give NG credit for recognizing the flaws in their templates and QA processes; NG has put a lot of effort into improving the core templates and fixing bugs. The upcoming 7.9 version of the templates looks very promising. But the previous and current versions were/are a mess, requiring several patches and client customization to fix all sorts of minor and critical errors. Upgrades to new versions of the templates are nothing short of nightmarish. The reviewer's claims of "seamless", "quick" and "effortless" navigation through the product are, to be polite, vastly exaggerated. The EMR product is difficult to implement, difficult to maintain, and requires advanced knowledge of template design and SQL to customize effectively. As I said, NG deserves kudos for attempting to address these problems. But small practices without strong IT resources should evaluate NG EMR very cautiously. Yes, it demos very well. The cardiology templates LOOK great, for example. But underneath the hood, it's a different and often frustrating experience. Read more...