Are you ready for the future of EMR?
Patients are asking more about the cost of care with the advent of consumer directed health care (CDHC) plans, adding to the information your billing office needs readily available. Patients are also becoming more involved in their care and asking more questions. The latest evolution of this involvement is requests for their medical record in an electronic format that can be uploaded to an online Personal Health Record (PHR).
Although these PHR services are still seen with some skepticism and there are continued concerns about privacy, they are nevertheless gaining in popularity. Among the most well known are Google’s Health Record and Microsoft’s Health Vault.
You can find other online and offline options at American Health Information Management Association’s myPHR.com. The site lists PHRs by type, format and cost (if any).
As the population becomes increasingly mobile – changing jobs more frequently and shopping around for healthcare services – patients’ demand for their healthcare records will continue to increase. They will either expect the provider to upload their information for them or to provide them with the information in a format that can be uploaded to PHR providers or software. The day is not too far off that patients will request that their medical record be loaded to a thumb drive. The need for interoperability is only going to increase.
Are you ready? Do you have your EMR/EHR in place?
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