To: Lhn5 who wrote (18402 ) 12/15/2006 7:16:37 PM From: Frank A. Coluccio Read Replies (3) | Respond to MedCommons develops, markets and sells a national network for sharing authoritative patient medical information among doctors, hospitals and their patients. MedCommons' medical record transport service, The Commons, is the first standards-based patient and physician-accessible network that connects Personal Health Records (PHR), Electronic Health Record (EHR) and national healthcare IT systems. To facilitate enterprise integration, MedCommons also supports Liberty Alliance standard single-sign-on protocols and DICOM standard radiology images. My friend has started a company, MedCommons (medcommons.net) around the notion of "Patient Centric Healthcare" that I think is pretty cool. [ ... ] They've been working on [it] for a couple years. It's certainly a difficult and daunting challenge to effect the US medical system, but one tool they do have is the law: by law your records belong to you. They haven't launched service yet, but when they do they'll generate custom letters for you, with 2-D bar codes of your account number, which you can sign and give to your doctor. It basically says "please fax my records to his number, and oh by the way, recall that under sections NNN of the US code you are required to do so if I ask you to". They've also got SW which can be integrated into various medical systems; basically it's reformatting into proper XML, encrypting, signing, etc., and stuffing it into S3 storage. They've also got SW which takes various consumer USB blood pressure and glucosimeter devices and stuffs that into your CCR as well. One can imagine a future in which people can elect to allow anonomyzed versions of their medical profiles to be available for 'open source' research, which might ferret out obscure correlations for further study. medcommons.net medcommons.net
