California docs offer PHRs
Executive Briefings Digest, January 17, 2006
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The California Association of Physician Groups (CAPG) has joined an initiative to bring Californians interactive personal health records (PHR) from their own doctors as part of the iHealthRecords service. The CAPG has already begun using iHealth, noting in a recent press release that "the system quickly brings the patients into the e-health process and makes them active participants."
iHealth services also enable the sharing of a patient's record with physicians, family members, and other appropriate caregivers in case of an emergency and includes
- automated education programs specific to the patient's conditions and medications
- patient-physician secure e-mail
- same-day Food and Drug Administration medication warnings and recalls
Medem, the patient-physician communication network founded by the American Medical Association and U.S. Medical Societies, provides the network for iHealth.
Source: Electronic Health Records Briefing
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