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September 18, 2012

Personal Health Records Empowering Patients, Changing Healthcare


You may not know the acronym, PHR, yet, but you will soon. It stands for personal health record, and that’s what the medical system is working toward for everyone, so quality of care will improve and costs will be reduced.

Bob Lorsch, chairman and CEO at MMRGlobal Inc., believes ehealth and health IT will make healthcare better, and explosively so, he said in a blog.

Healthcare is in the midst of a revolution, as hospitals, doctors, labs and pharmacists switch from paper records to electronic health records (EHR) that will eventually be connected to every provider treating a patient, so a full record of a patient’s health will be available to any and all who treat him.

Lorsch’s blog called attention to media reporting on the awareness of patient-centered care and the explosion taking place in eHealth and health IT, which his company is deeply involved in, as it provides safe, secure online PHRs.

Many healthcare analysts are predicting that health IT represents one of the best investment opportunities of our time, Lorsch reported, also noting that patients are now being pressed to manage their own health, which should result in better care and lower costs for everyone.

MyMedicalRecords.com, MMR’s patented PHR, “connects patients to all their healthcare providers regardless of the system the physicians use at their office, be it plain paper or the most advanced electronic medical records system, and is the only system of its kind that does this for the entire family, including pets,” Lorsch commented. This enables patients to be an active participant in managing the cost and quality of their family's healthcare.

Patients have never before had such access to their medical records, which empowers them to take charge.

Patient-centered” care is replacing the old doctor-knows-everything policy, according to Karen Ravn, allowing patients to take control of their own healthcare through telemedicine and physicians to be in touch anytime, anywhere through new mobile devices.

Yes, healthcare is changing, and hopefully for the better. More than half the physicians in the U.S. have now adopted EHRs and replacing your tattered, bulging paper file with an electronic one, allowing healthcare providers to call up any detail of your health record immediately, instead of having to call another doctor or lab and wait for the information.

It will also allow patients the ability to more pro-actively manage their healthcare.




Edited by Braden Becker
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