HIMSS 2015 Highlights

A Patient & Physician-Generated, Evidence-Based EHR

The HIMSS Showroom. Photo via @Farzad_MD.

Dr. Stan Shepherd, CEO of the Personal Care Record Company, is a family physician in London whose software combines and automates evidence-based medicine, traditional EHR technology, and patient generated data to create what he calls a “dynamic personal health record.”

According to Dr. Shepherd, current evidence based EHRs have great value but are underutilized for a few reasons. First, most are generic and not individual patient-focused. Most EHRs are also passive documents that require active searches, and they do not automatically combine patient data with guidelines to formulate individual care plans, nor do they involve patient-generated data.

Shepherd’s physician and patient-oriented approach to EHRs is designed to overcome these problems by:

• Including role-based PHR views for patients and clinicians
• Embedding evidence based care pathways into individual patient records
• Automating care notifications to patients and clinicians via mobile devices.

The system is designed to be downloaded by patients as a mobile app, and is expected to be of particular interest to the insurance industry and health networks. “We are a new layer in the game, interacting with the EHR as a resource for data, and as a hopper into which we put automated information, but fundamentally we are a personal care company,” he says.

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