Personal Health Record (PHR) and Patient Portals
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Industry Practices Healthcare Services Software Product Engineering Services Personal Health Record (PHR) and Patient Portals Broadly, there are two ways to look at a PHR system. It can either be a patient owned, self-managed health record system or it can be a provider-owned and managed digital summary of patient information which can be made available to the patients on request. In the latter case, the PHR system is often offered as an extension to the EMR system of the provider organization. Sometimes, it might also be a hybrid of the two. Also, PHR systems are often integrated with patient portals to enable streamlined patient-provider communication.
Whatever the model, Silicus helps to bring together the most relevant solution coupled with best-in-class technology to build/integrate your PHR and portal system. Because of our extensive experience in the health care domain coupled with technical expertise, we can deliver an end-to-end comprehensive PHR product/solution encompassing features like patient data security, access, portability using CCR (Continuity of Care Record), transparency, patient-provider communication, alerts, lab-result integration & self-help tools while adhering to HIPAA compliant messaging standards – all this and more across any platform like web services, SaaS-enabled product or scaling the existing EHR.
Jose Ramon Mosteiro
Ford Oxaal
Dayon Kane
John Ferrari
Umesh Verma
Dan Boehm
Bo Keyslay
Michael VaughnWe leverage our ability to understand leading-edge technologies that guarantee world-class product architecture, design, implementation, deployment and servicing. Further, we have the right mix of techno-functional and QA experts that help you realize your goal of custom-product development while ensuring business-applicability, adherence to quality & compliance, scalability and cost-effectiveness. In addition, Silicus offers following specific services for implementation of PHR:
- Building interfaces to client patient portal or other clinical systems
- Microsoft Health Vault certification
- Security and Penetration testing
- Information sharing platforms like discussion boards, blogging, polls, feedback etc.
- Mobile applications to have access to portal/PHR from mobile.
- SaaS-based development or enablement of existing PHR or patient portal.
Based on our experience in designing and implementing products in the care domain, here are some of the benefits that we believe a PHR system can bring to your organization:
Power to the patients
PHR empowers the patients to capture and manage their own health records securely, set their health goals, monitor their health data, keep track of their appointments with various physicians and be self-aware of their health progress.
Quick access to patient's health records
In case of emergencies and ambulatory care, it makes a huge difference for the providers to have quick access to patient's health records like drug allergies, recent lab tests, X-Ray reports, care plans etc. PHR saves the trouble of carrying around paper records in these situations.
Meeting the 'meaningful use' requirement
A PHR coupled with patient portal provides the necessary platform to achieve the requirements of 'meaningful use' for communication of health records to the patient by allowing timely electronic access to changes in health information, patient-specific clinical summaries and education resources.
Reduction of waiting cycles
Electronic forms submission, online request for drugs from pharmacy, calendar management, referral request etc. are some of the features that can save waiting times for patients. Going a step further, some portals also facilitate e-consultation, hence making healthcare more accessible at lower costs.
Encouraging preventive health
Tools like wellness management, e-learning and progress tracking applications can be integrated to PHR and patient portal systems based on patient's preferences and health requirements to encourage preventive healthcare