The last time I visited my family doctor, I enrolled in a new online health records system. Now, from my laptop or smartphone, I can access medical records — reaching back more than a decade across several different physicians and specialties — for my entire family. I also can make appointments, refill prescriptions and ask questions via my personal health records page.
For a patient like me, it’s relevant information wrapped up in a simple, accessible tool that makes my life easier. But it didn’t happen on its own. And I know a great deal of planning, customizing and collaboration went into executing this particular solution for this particular healthcare organization.
For my physician’s practice and my health insurance network, it’s healthcare innovation at work.
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Ana Cantu
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I saw an article seearvl months back that compared the cost of emergency room visits between a group of patients who had personal health records and a group who had no PHR. The average cost per ER visit and and other hospital charges for the group with a PHR was significantly less than those without a PHR. If I remember correctly the costs associated with the non-PHR group were nearly three times the costs associated with the PHR group. Those patients who presented in the ER with a PHR had fewer labs done, fewer hospital admissions and fewer adverse drug reactions than the non-PHR group of patients.