MMRGlobal, Inc. (fka MMRF)

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Bringing the Electronic Health Record to Life – a Consumer Perspective. E. Newman, Chair, National IT Health Board Consumer Panel; presentation to HINZ seminar 21 June 2012

[slide 6] A personal “Shared Care Record” for everyone by 2014. [with] a set of core health information; accessible by every clinician we deal with; irrespective of the setting; accessible to ourselves; including some/all of: clinical notes, test results, radiography, list of medications, allergies, referrals/discharges; expectation that scope of the data will grow over time.
[slide 7] The massive benefits of personal health records on line. [provides] Better care arising from better-informed professionals; more self-care arising from better informed patients – wellness as well as health; opens door for more effective ways to deliver health services. Typical consumer reaction: “you mean you’re not already doing this?”

Glad to see “patient portals” showing up as issue. IMO portals have been popular only because they are a foundational crutch in transition. It gives providers the ability to say the patient is center to system; yet still not relinquishing total control to the patient for their personal records. Problem is, it will continue to be stove-piped until these EHR systems are interoperable with their data (including each other’s patient portals). For a patient that never leaves an area, portals are great. For a traveler, vacationer, or transitory patient, a patient portal just wont do.

http://www.slideshare.net/HINZ/ehr-a-consumer-perspective-13423466