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Medem Links with Google to Connect Patients With Doctors Online
(Wireless News Via Acquire Media NewsEdge)
iHealth, an online suite of medical practice web sites and secure
patient email services provided by Medem, is now integrated with Google
Health, a new product that allows users to store, organize and manage
their medical records and personal health information online, the
companies reported.
Medem is a healthcare IT company founded by medical societies,
including the American Medical Association (AMA).
The iHealth collaboration with Google allows Google Health users to
share information in their Google Health profile with doctors using the
iHealth web product. This in turn helps keep doctors up-to-date on
current medical conditions and medications. Physicians who offer the
iHealth service to their patients will be listed in the Google Health
"Find a Doctor" feature as integrated with Google Health.
"Improving communication and strengthening the patient-physician bond
is a key goal for Medem and its participating medical societies,"
explained Robert Musacchio, PhD, chairman of the board for Medem and
senior vice president, Publishing and Business Services for the AMA.
"The collaboration between Google and Medem to better connect patients
and physicians online is an important step in furthering this goal."
A recent Harris Interactive/Wall Street Journal survey confirms that
patients prefer physician practices with an online presence, finding
that 77 percent of patients want to schedule appointments online, and
75 percent want to email their physician's practice. Medem's
collaboration with Google Health will help patients identify and select
physicians who are iHealth users and offer these and other important
medical services online.
"Our objective at Medem is to provide a suite of online services for
physician practices that help them improve patient communication,
reduce phone calls, enhance marketing and reduce liability," noted
Medem CEO, Edward Fotsch, MD. "The integration between Google Health
and practices that offer iHealth may help millions of consumers
identify, select and reward practices who have quality web sites and
offer a higher level of patient connectivity and service."
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