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1Oct, 2018

Permissions and Privacy

By: ZibdyHealth | Tags: Continuation of Care document, Electronic Medical Records, encryption, genetic, genomics, Health Information Exchange, HIE, interoperability, Lab test, medication reminder, permission, privacy, private, security, sharing

ZibdyHealth takes users’ information security and privacy very seriously. We know that our users would like us to hold their medical data with the utmost security. Our databases are encrypted, and data being sent over the internet between our servers and the user’s device is also encrypted. We use 256-bit AES encryption which is far superior to most hospitals or banks in the United States of America. We understand that we will need to earn this trust and we are ready for it. There are more than six different layers […]
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1Oct, 2018

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Family Medical History on ZibdyHealth

By: ZibdyHealth | Tags: cancer, disease, EHR, family, Family Medical history, genetic, genomics, inherit, parent, relation, senior, vitals, ZibdyHealth

In today’s digital world, people are connected socially via Facebook and professionally via LinkedIn. Even gamers and music lovers are connected via Zynga and Spotify. If families could be connected such that their medical histories were linked, experts estimate that we as a society could save millions of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars. Even Larry Ellison and Larry Page, thought leaders in this new information age, have both have publicly proclaimed the need to connect medical records. Family Medical History The family is genetically linked – illnesses […]
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1Oct, 2018

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Asthma Action Plan Blog

By: ZibdyHealth | Tags: AAFA, AAP, AARC, Allergy & Asthma Network, assisted care, Asthma, asthma action plan, caregiver, CDC, Continuation of Care document, COPD, EHR, Electronic Medical Records, FHIR, genetic, genomics, Health Information Exchange, HIE, interoperability, Lungs, medication reminder, MTM, Peak Flow, Pharmacogenomics, school, vitals

Do you have a “dynamic” Asthma Action Plan? The Asthma Action Plan is a patient’s personal guide to help control their asthma, and avoid getting into “trouble”. The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA), the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and others all recommend that persons diagnosed with asthma should have an asthma action plan. These plans are customized to the individual to help them prevent and control asthma attacks. As most individuals with asthma know, attacks can bey scary, demoralizing, and can impact your life in many ways. […]
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1Oct, 2018

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Pharmacogenomics and the future of medicine

By: ZibdyHealth | Tags: DNA, Drug, family, gene, genetic, genomic, healthcare, inheritance, managedcare, medicine, nih, personalized medicine, PGx, pharmacogenomic, Pharmacogenomics, precisionmedicine, rare disease, sequence

You have probably heard that certain medications have worked well for one person but not for another and similarly, sometimes these medications have unwanted side effects for some but not others. There are many factors responsible for these differences, such as age, gender, and our genes. The study of this drug-gene relationship is known as “Pharmacogenomics” or “Pharmacogenetics”, and involves study of the impact of genetic differences on the way our bodies process medications. Pharmacogenomics is a core element of personalized medicine. There are well over 20,000 genes in our […]
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