Archive for April 11th, 2007
The Bank as Health ‘Infomediary’
April 11, 2007
An interesting article on iHealthbeat discusses how banks are getting into health IT. This is potentially good news because banks know security and how to process payments efficiently. But can banks handle personal health information? Do you want your bank handling your health information? “From the eHealth Lockbox, a bank can progress to offer a specialized portal for provider health plan businesses that are clients of a bank. On the other side of the connection, there’s an opportunity to create an increasingly specialized online banking portal for the consumer.” It could also support provider-patient secure messaging.
Read more at the Medical Banking Project.
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