The Kansas Health Information Network (KHIN) is planning todispatch a first-of-its-kind HIE-based patient portal for all individuals from
the statewide system, reports the Wichita Eagle. Rather than association with a
primary care physician's electronic health record, the portal will draw
together all accessible information through the health information exchange
(HIE) systems, and will likewise enable patients to transfer their very own
data to the record.
"The motive is to truly enable patients to turn out to
be better engaged with their health care data," says KHIN Executive
Director Laura McCrary. "If they don't have a spot where they can see the
majority of their health information, it makes it difficult to be locked in on if
you don't have the foggiest idea about your present rundown of medications or
the consequences of your last test or your current diagnosis." KHIN has
passed one million patients associated with the network, spread more than 300
Kansas providers.
Further, giving a
valuable administration to patients, those providers will get an additional
edge heading into Stage 2 of meaningful use, which requires 5% of patients to
get to their own information on the web. When a patient sees his/her record
through the KHIN portal, the visit will tally towards the insights of each and
every supplier he/she is effectively utilizing, McCrary says. Patients can
likewise safely email their providers to pose inquiries or schedule appointments.
"With their well built roles and connections as health
information aggregators and integrators, HIEs are ready to go into the
condition, providing value to both two consumers and providers," says JeffDonnell, President of NoMoreClipboard, which serves as the power to the KHIN
portal. "HIEs are outfitted to integrate with whatever systems and
technologies their providers as of now use, and they can aggregate and distribute
health data from different sources directly to consumers in an standard data
format"
Clients will likewise have the option to transfer data
generated by patients, for example, exercise and diet information and
over-the-counter medicine records, just as records from providers who may not
be partaking in the HIE. Patient-generated data stands as a speculative piece
of meaningful use Stage 3 necessity for significant use, and is ending up
increasingly well known with patients who use mHealth applications and personal
tracking beacons to monitor their health.
KHIN will likewise be handling the issue of putting away
pictures online sooner rather than later. X-rays and other imaging studies can
gobble up server space at a quicker rate, and the HIE is looking for a prudent
method to give picture sharing usefulness without copying documents onto CDs.
Rather, KHIN is examining approaches to streamline cloud-based access to the
data for providers requiring visual verification of the documents. "If there's
an approach to make it accessible continuously to providers and patients and an
approach to store it in a manner that doesn't occupy so much room, we're
searching for an organization to do those things," McCrary said.
The portal will be accessible for free to Kansas patients,
and access to the system is incorporated into the expenses provider members
already pay to take part in the HIE. McCrary trusts the portal will go live within
the next month.
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