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Since many patients receive medical care from several different healthcareproviders, the ability to aggregate the dispersed data and provide a centrallocation for HIPAA-compliant access will greatly improve patient care. Incontrast to Personal Health Records (PHRs) on the market today, eLifeCare'sconsolidated medical record contains medical data collected from eachprovider's Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system, making the informationavailable the most accurate and complete. This ensures the provider isreceiving data entered by a medical professional, rather than informationoffered by the patient. As the patient sees a new healthcare provider,receives treatment from a hospital or requires emergency medical attention,providers in the eLifeCare network can view accurate and current medicalinformation, including diagnosis, treatments, allergies, medications,procedures and lab orders.
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"Giving multiple healthcare providers access to the most current medicalinformation about a patient will greatly improve the overall quality of carefor that individual," said Rick Toomey, CEO of Beaufort Memorial Hospital, thefirst hospital to be testing the solution. "Additionally, the likelihood of amisdiagnosis or conflicting treatment is dramatically reduced if we know thepatient's most recent medical history."
Access to a patient's consolidated medical record is secured throughseveral measures. Patients are accurately identified through a biometricsystem when they become members, and each time they receive treatment at aparticipating healthcare provider. Providers gain a view of a record onlyafter securing the patient's consent.
Mark Kolbush, CEO of Lowcountry Medical Group commented, "Not only doesthis new capability offer significant benefit to the physicians in a singlegeographic community like Beaufort, it also can be available to healthcareproviders anywhere the patient may travel. As long as a provider has theability to biometrically identify the patient, the patient can grant access totheir medical history."
"eLifeCare's solution allows us to spend more time with our patients,"added Dr. Vinnie Rhodes, a family practice physician at Lowcountry MedicalGroup. "With this consolidated medical record in place, we can spend our timeon treatment rather than collecting or validating patient medical history."
The next two phases of the pilot will be deployed in July and earlyAugust, offering additional functional enhancements. However, as soon as PhaseI capability testing is complete, the solution will move into production withan increase in the number of patient consolidated medical records andparticipating healthcare providers.
"We anticipate this technology to accelerate the integration of PHRs asmore healthcare providers and patients become participating members of thesystem," said Kent LaRoque, CEO of eLifeCare Solutions. "The fact thatindividuals will be able to receive a higher quality of medical careregardless of where they are is a tremendous benefit."
ABOUT eLifeCare Solutions
eLifeCare Solutions, headquartered in Atlanta Georgia, is a developer andmarketer of technology solutions and services for the healthcare industry thatautomate and improve patient billing and collections, and providecomprehensive and current patient data for health benefit sponsors, patients,healthcare providers and payers. The innovative eON(TM) suite of products andservices work together to improve the overall quality of patient care, lower
