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The History of Smart Cards in Healthcare dates back to the 1990s. In 1998, the French health-care system began providing each patient with a small green card. Each patient carries “the carte vitale”. It is a Smart Card, a plastic credit card with a memory chip on it. It can open, access and update, all the essentials of a patient’s health records from a cloud-based host. With it, medical records, insurance information, prescriptions, and reimbursements

On October 24, 2017, ISeeYouCare sponsored Business at Breakfast with Governor Bevin. Governor Bevin used the opportunity to discuss Kentucky’s much needed pension reform plans. Under-funding Kentucky’s pension system has been a problem for decades.  Due to this, the plan deficiencies is impacting business in the state in various ways. “This isn’t an easy fix,” said Bevin. “It’s not going to be done overnight. This is a big problem, it really is, and those of

Eric Topol, MD, tweeted an interesting list of reasons for patients owning their medical data. Entitled “It’s Your Medical Data”, the tweet has garnered much interest and has been retweeted almost 1,000 times. Dr. Topol, is a cardiologist, geneticist, and digital medicine researcher. Before moving to La Jolla, Calif.-based Scripps Translational Science Institute in 2006, Topol served as chairman of cardiovascular medicine at Cleveland Clinic (1991-2005) and founded the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine.

As the shift from episodic to value-based care continues, health systems are seeking to improve clinical workflows and reduce the amount of “inefficient” time with physicians. Patient-Reported Outcomes prove valuable over time, based on a recent article published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Partners HealthCare PRO program demonstrates value for both patients and physicians. ISeeYouCare’s eDoc-on-Call Portal supports the concept of PROs. Our name for it is the Disease Management Protocol (DMP). The

Personal Health Records are now everywhere. EHRs have their versions. There are many on the market. Additionally, there are several free ones. (We even offer a free version of ours). But most fall short of offering the promise of a Lifetime Personal Health Record. We believe there is great value in having your own PHR to take with you. And, more importantly, you can take it with you in whatever form you prefer. Our PHR