I read with great interest your article on electronic health records and thought you would find MyMedicalRecords of interest. MMR has contracts with organizations covering more than 30 million lives to provide our services. Our new product, MMR Pro, does put the physician in control of the records, but gives them an incentive to have the patients become involved in managing them.
Contrasting MMR to other popular EHR products, MMR is delivering the most user-friendly, convenient and versatile web-based Personal Health Record available today. Using our proprietary patent pending technologies, complete patient information including actual lab test results, radiology reports and images, progress notes and all of a patient’s charts can be uploaded or faxed with annotated voice notes and comments directly into the user’s password-secured account. Users do not need to install any special software or use any special hardware to use our service.
MMR also has integrated other advanced features, such as multilingual translation, a drug interaction database of more than 20,000 medications, calendaring for prescription refills and doctor appointments, and private voicemail for a doctor’s message and other personal uses.
There also is a special “Emergency Log-In” feature that allows a doctor to access a user’s account to view their most important medical information in the event of a medical emergency. To ensure individual privacy, specific data, such as prescriptions, allergies, blood type and copies of actual medical files or images, are pre-selected by the user for inclusion in the online read-only Emergency Folder.
In addition, MMR also includes an online ESafeDeposit Box feature that enables users to securely store any important document in a virtual “lock box” and access them anytime from anywhere using an Internet-connected computer or PDA. These documents can include Advanced Directives, Wills, insurance policies, birth certificates, photos of Family, Pets and Property, and more. MMR is clearly one of the most complete user-friendly Personal Health Records available today (I can provide details).
I would encourage you to visit MMR and set up a complimentary account. Simply go to www.mymedicalrecords.com and sign up using registration code MMRBLOG. I would be interested in your experience and hope that you will include us in any further discussions of Personal Health Records. I could also send you more information by email or snail mail (the latter allows me to send a bit more than I’d want to clog your email with). Recently, we sent out a release about MMR Pro, which will better enable physicians to put patient records into secure, online accounts.
Sincerely,
Scott S. Smith
Director of Public Relations
MyMedicalRecords.com
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Scott Smith
of CA
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Mar 05, 2008 14:20:04 PM
PHRs and dentists
Did you know that the American Dental Association no longer advocates that member dentists adopt electronic health records? These days they are silent on the subject. I know. I am a member.
Long ago, the mandate called for the adoption of interoperable electronic records for all providers. Much attention has been focused on hospitals and physicians, yet one hears nothing at all about electronic health records for dentists. Is that not odd? One would think that dental patients’ interests would be better represented in Washington.
It appears to me that next year, a new president is going to wake up one morning thinking American healthcare has finally reached the tipping point in adoption of EHRs, only to discover that dentists’ practices have been left way, way behind.
For the time being, I think it is a blessing for Americans that dentists are not to be included in the nation’s EHR system. HIPAA is so absurd in dentistry. Not only is there nothing holding down the cost of being a covered entity, but the rule endangers Americans by taking control from patients and giving it to insurance executives - who are the only people pushing for EHR adoption in dentistry.
EHRs offer no benefit at all to dentists or dental patients. Only expensive danger. Darrell Pruitt DDS
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Darrell Pruitt
of TX
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Mar 05, 2008 10:40:35 AM
Choosing the right PHR
People need to know what they what their PHR to do for them. Having your entire file of medical records electronically is good. More important is having critical need to know information accessable in an easy to read format so if you when to a hospital in an emergency, doctors can pull up this report which could prevent and possible medical error and give the doctor direction on what prior ailments you may have. You should check out www.accessmyrecords.com and see how it works.
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Scott Smith of CA @ Mar 05, 2008 14:20:04 PM
Darrell Pruitt of TX @ Mar 05, 2008 10:40:35 AM
Lenny Copelli of FL @ Mar 05, 2008 09:03:27 AM
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