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One of the interoperability showcases demonstrated a woman who is late third trimester pregnant transferring her information from the Personal Health Record (PHR) to the OBGYN and then to hospital and back to the doctor, according to a demonstration at the 2009 meeting of the 2009 Annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Conference & Exhibition (HIMSS).

“We’re a web-based personal health record. Anyone can go to NoMoreClipboard.com and sign up with a free account for personal history, allergies, medications, conditions and sending a standard form to your doctor is all free of charge,” stated Dave Carlson, Technology Director, of NoMoreClipboard (www.nomoreclipboard.com) of Fort Wayne, Indiana, who presented PHR of a patient record from a doctor’s office to a hospital, “The website is live and currently transfers PHRs to physicians.”

In the process of the interoperability showcase, which brings together an effort amongst numerous vendors cooperating for this worthwhile effort, Mr. Carlson showed all of an invented patient’s personal health records inputted into NoMoreClipboard and then transferred the PHR information to an invented OBGYN office. “I bring together all the information for NoMoreClipboard, make sure the IT is working, show how people are added to the system, and push this (PHR) information out to a community registry,” Mr. Carlson told MedicExchange.

This PHR demonstrator states also that what makes them different is “our ability to fax information to the doctor’s office or place the information on the physicians’ forms, which we call our concierge service.” For those doctors who do have an EMR system, the PHR is sent as a Continuity of Care Record (CCR) as well as CCD, CDA, etc such as the repositories take at the interoperability showcase. For those doctors who do not have an EMR system, the PHR is faxed. “That way,” Mr. Carlson explained, “patients can pick whatever doctor they like and if they do not have an EMR (Electronic Medical Record) in place, then they can get the PHR as a facsimile on the doctor’s own form so you (the patient) does not have to fill out a form when you get to the doctors office.” Thus, the company’s name becomes clarified, NoMoreClipboard.

In conclusion, EPR is now available to patients, whether doctors have EMR or not, and the percentage of healthcare providers who use an EMR system will only increase in the near future. The safety of patient information is assured by the standard means of protecting personal internet accounts, like logging out of an account after use on an unsecured record and clearing out the cache, cookies, history and personal information from the browser on a public terminal after use. “Using an https secured website,” stated Mr. Carlson, reassuring patients, “the EPR is encrypted with the same type of security as your online banking. The patient has the ability to control where information is sent, such as only to those specific doctors and hospitals where the patient wants information sent. ”

This article is under review by the presenter who is in the process of fact checking.

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Dave Carlson, Technology Director, of NoMoreClipboard explains a showcased PHR upload and transfer ...
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