PHR and the Health URL

PHR and the Health URL : "The Health URL is emerging as the essential concept of a patient-centered health information revolution. Any member of the care team can offer a Health URL to the patient or request access to a patient's existing Health URL. Once the Health URL is established, the patient is, by definition, fundamentally associated with his or her Health URL. As with bank accounts and personal email domains, patients can choose to move their Health URL accounts to a different hosting agent and their private health records will remain intact together with its connections to specified healthcare providers.

Clinicians and other collaborators on a patient's healthcare team can gain access to diagnostic quality and digitally authenticated images and reports in the Health URL with permission of the patient or his or her designated agents. Practice management systems and EHRs interact with the Health URL by coding relevant patient information into CCR format with DICOM and PDF references and implementing Web services and federated identity protocols already deployed in government and corporate networks. A new generation of Internet commerce and collaboration technologies allows healthcare providers to leverage their customers' trust by combining their internal practice management systems with a patient-centered, independent private health record.

Four Health URL Basics

Aggregate Information from providers and the patient to one Health URL.

Support the Physician HIPAA compliant, FDA registered, diagnostic imaging, digital signatures, single sign-on.

Clarify Privacy Access authorization is a combination of host policy and patient consent.

True Portability enables a Host URL to be moved from one host to another without disturbing access from any practice. "