Discuss the patient portal (MedFusion) and the personal health record (HealthVault).

Part 1: In the Discussion Forum answer the following questions, using the subject line, “Patient Portals Discussion”: Discuss the patient portal (MedFusion) and the personal health record (HealthVault). How they are similar and how they are different; not which one you liked best. How will they impact meaningful use? Do you see any new future potential? Additionally, defend what services you would like to see in a patient portal and which ones you think are of minimal importance. How should we display genetic information which may consist of terabytes of data? BlueCross/BlueShield has decided to do a pilot project to pay for e-visits for the next two years. As the only Informatics expert in your area, area docs consult you for your opinion. What would be your advice and why? Post your answers in the module 2 discussion forum. Your statements should provide clear evidence that you have explored these resources using the guidelines above. Include the APA-style citations, formatting and a reference section. Be sure there are no spelling or grammatical errors. https://www.healthvault.com/en-us/ https://www.medfusion.com/ Part 2: Get familiar with as many as you can and adopt those that work best for you. In order to get participation credit for this module, proceed to the Module 2 area of the Course Participation Discussion Forum and answer the following questions, using the subject line, “My Critical Analysis of Online Search Engines”: How did the search engines similar and how are they different? Which would you prefer to use to research a medical issue and why? Why would you use search engine A in one instance and search engine B in another. (Part 2 is a minimum 2 paragraphs) Next, test a few search engines: Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com) Select “Advanced Scholar Search by selecting the down caret in the search box. ” Type in any topic you like; in the drop down box “where my words occur” change it to “in the title of the article.” Type in the years 2007 to 2016 under “Date,” and below that select “Medicine, Pharmacology, and Veterinary Science under “Search only articles in the following subject areas..” Click the “Search Scholar” button. You should see multiple articles returned. Do you think Scholar would benefit from more filters? What would you add? Medscape (http://www.medscape.com) [You can register as a consumer if you are not a doctor or nurse]. At the top of the home page you will see a search engine. Again search for Zika virus or whatever medical topic you like, and you should get hundreds of hits. Please note that you are searching Medscape, Emedicine, a drug reference and Medline. This produces an interesting mix of articles. Please do take a look at other features of Medscape. Note, there is some commercial influence with this resource. Bing (http://www.bing.com) Search for the medical topic of your choosing. Can you find the advanced search option? Compare this with Google. Duck Duck Go is a new search engine that is Google like but does not track users. How does it compare to Google? Wolfram Alpha (http://www.wolframalpha.com) This is a new computational knowledge engine and not a search engine per se. Type in the city where you live and see what appears and try out some of the “examples” posted on the red hyperlink. Alternately, try searching for “WiFi speed” and “Mobile phones USA”. With digitization of the world’s information, you will see more engines like this to amass, organize and analyze information. PubMed (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/) Type in H1N1 or any topic in the search box. You should see about multiple hits. Then select the “Limits” option, under “Text Options,” check “links to free full text.”, Under “Date,” select “Published in the last 1 year” in the drop down menu. Select “humans” under “Species,” “English” under “Language,” “MEDLINE” under “Subsets,” and “Adult: 19-44” under “Ages.” Click the “Search” button, and you should see fewer references which means the filters were very helpful. Without these filters you would have been overwhelmed.