Jan 07, 2010 (Datamonitor via COMTEX) -- MMR Information Systems and Unis-Tonghe Technology, or UNIS, have signed a definitive joint venture agreement to deploy a customized version of MMR's MyMedicalRecords proprietary personal health record, or PHR, services and MMRPro professional document imaging and management solutions in China.
UNIS, a subsidiary of Unisplendour Corporation, and a division of Tsinghua Holdings, is one of the China's IT firms.
UNIS intends to launch the MyMedicalRecords technology platform along with a Chinese electronic medical records (EMR) system using MMR and UNIS technology in support of UNIS medical records development project, said MMR.
Luo Jianhui, vice president and chairman of Unisoft Group for UNIS, and Robert Lorsch, chairman and CEO of MMR, made the announcement.
The joint venture, working with Nihilent, MMR's technology partner in India, will integrate the MyMedicalRecords PHR and MMRPro system into an EMR health IT platform to be used in China's healthcare market.
MMR also plans to work with UNIS to ultimately provide electronic safe deposit box storage solutions based on its MyEsafeDepositBox to the fin ancial, legal and insurance industries, which UNIS will help MMR introduce in China.
Mr Lorsch said: "The Chinese version of MMR's popular personal health record, plus integration of MMRPro into a Chinese EMR system, will benefit Chinese citizens by providing them access to copies of their own personal health information. Currently, the Chinese population has very limited access so clearly this solution will make it easier to share medical records throughout the public and private Chinese hospital system, which has not been easily done in the past.
"By enabling hospitals and doctors to share a patient's health history utilizing existing medical records, the best possible care can be provided while reducing medical costs to individuals and the government."
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