The movement towards empowering patients with access to
their own medical data in a format they can understand and engage with has gained
considerable momentum in the past few months. The scope can extend beyond
health and wellness programmes to a person’s entire medical record history.
The Statewide Health Information Network of New York
(SHIN-NY) is one of the most advanced health information networks in operation
today. A series of regional hubs create a secure network that spans the entire
state. The system works effectively for physicians. This power of this state of
the art infrastructure has however, been untapped by the patients themselves.
To ensure that patients are empowered the New York State
Department of Health, New York e-Health Collaborative and Recovery.gov recently
ran a competition where New Yorkers could vote on what they wanted their
patient portal to look like.
What is most significant is that this is an example of the
medical profession reaching out and asking consumers what they want. What is
clear from the results is that patients have placed the highest value on what
appears to be the simplest, clearest, most colourful and engaging interface.
Once the portal is in place patients will be able to access
their results from any mobile device and share this information with medical
professionals regardless of their location when the need arises.
The proposed system has been enthusiastically
received by both medical professionals and patients and is surely one of
the most ground breaking initiatives in patient empowerment today.
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