Personal Electronic Health Records
The university Center of health McGill (CUSM) will offer to the Quebec one the occasion to build their own electronic health records. The 300 first persons to register itself to the MedforYou.com will be loaded, as early as next week, to evaluate a non-final version of the website that should be online in the month of October.
In the end, the site conceived by the firm Medical.MD will be able to be consulted by the doctors, that even there will be able to add pieces of information. But at present, constitutes rather a notebook of road for the Quebec concerned one of their health records.
“It is necessary to walk before running, illustrated the Dr Jeffrey Barkun, director clinic of the transition technological to the CUSM. For the moment, one offers to the patients the possibility to create a health file that allows them to organize their information and that is easy to consult. Of other steps are foreseen, but there remains several technical elements and of security to consider before envisioning a data division between patient and doctors.”
A supplementary tool of electronic health records effective as a complement to the file of electronic health that the government of the Quebec elaborates currently. While this one will be put at the disposal of the hospitals, the conceived file with the assistance of created software for the CUSM will be accessible of everywhere through an interactive website.
The EMR software will allow the patients to record the news on their style of life and on their family medical antecedents, what’s more of there to indicate their diseases and their medications. At last, a section will be reserved to the appointments or to the taken medicines that will be able to be recalled to the users by the automatic sending of a text or of an e-mail.
The essays of the basic version will allow the designers to analyze the usage that do the people of the site in order to refine the official version that will be offered to the general public to the fall.