{"id":102,"date":"2008-06-14T17:17:21","date_gmt":"2008-06-14T21:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.payne.org\/2008\/06\/14\/blue-cross-blue-shield-of-ma-with-google-health\/"},"modified":"2020-09-14T15:26:34","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T15:26:34","slug":"blue-cross-blue-shield-of-ma-with-google-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/blue-cross-blue-shield-of-ma-with-google-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Cross \/ Blue Shield of MA with Google Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well this is interesting:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\" style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: initial none initial;\"><p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts says it will become the first health insurer to participate in Google Health, a medical records initiative by the online search engine.<\/span><\/span>(from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/articles\/2008\/06\/12\/mass_blue_crossblue_shield_signs_on_to_google_health\/\">this article<\/a>).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(I&#8217;m an HMO Blue of MA subscriber.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve wondered for a while why, with all of the technology available, someone hasn&#8217;t finally figured out how to make health care and health insurance more efficient. <a href=\"https:\/\/stillbirthalliance.org.au\">Check this out<\/a> to keep yourself fit.\u00a0 (And I&#8217;m sorry to say that I&#8217;ve developed a small set of forms my family uses to streamline replies to incoming HMO paperwork).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got mixed feelings about Google handling medical records, but if they can help stop my HMO premiums from going up 10-25%\/year, I&#8217;m interested in learning more.<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well this is interesting: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts says it will become the first health insurer to participate in Google Health, a medical records initiative by the online search engine.(from\u00a0this article). (I&#8217;m an HMO Blue of MA subscriber.) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/blue-cross-blue-shield-of-ma-with-google-health\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":820,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}