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How about a MySpace page for your medical records?
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Location: Blogs Health Alert |
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| Posted by: Naseem S. Miller |
Tuesday, November 20, 2007 |
Healthy Ocala members met on Monday night, approved its interim governance and selected members of executive committee.
What is Healthy Ocala?
It's the name of Marion County’s Regional Health Information System (RHIO).
What is a RHIO?
It is a system that would connect your electronic medical records at the hospital to your doctor’s office, to the local pharmacy and to the lab down the street. Wouldn’t it be nice? No more phoning and faxing. And, the best part is that you’re going to have access to all this information, which is secure from those who're not supposed to see it.
“It’s kind of like MySpace for patients,” said Dr. Mel Seek, Chair of Healthy Ocala. The only difference is that it’s read-only, for obvious reasons.
You’ll eventually be able to message your doctor, get updates from him or her and refill your prescription electronically.
Healthy Ocala has been in the works for three years, Seek said.
Several other county’s in Florida and around the nation have RHIOs, but local leaders believe that Marion County’s is better planned and will be more cost-effective for doctors who haven’t installed electronic medical records at their offices yet.
Implementation of RHIO in the region could result in reduced cost of health-care, increased efficiency in delivery of care, reduced number of duplicated lab tests and availability of more timely information, said Dr. David Willis, medical director of Healthy Ocala.
We’ll keep you posted as Healthy Ocala gets closer to its launch date, which is set for April 2008. |
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