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 by Jacob Goldstein
Online personal health records got a boost from Minnesota’s governor yesterday.
Tim Pawlenty (pictured) said 50,000 state employees would be able to access their health records online next year, with a plan to extend access to everyone in the state by 2011, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports.
The PHR is a popular idea in health IT circles these days — Google and Microsoft have been pushing the concept, as have insurers such as Aetna. But it hasn’t really caught on with the public.
Pawlenty, a Republican rumored to be on McCain’s list of possible VP running-mates, used the language of market-driven health care in describing his new plan.
“We need to put consumers in charge,” he reportedly said. “We need to give them the tools so they can make good decisions.”
Earlier this year, Pawlenty vetoed a bill that would have expanded a state-run health insurance program that covers the working poor.
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