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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