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Collaboration will enable patients to access, control health information from multiple sites of care

BOSTON, Sept. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Children's Hospital Boston and eClinicalWorks(R) today announced a collaboration that will enable patients who are seen at Children's ambulatory programs and in primary care practices in the Pediatric Physicians' Organization at Children's (PPOC) to aggregate health data from both sites of care into a single personally controlled health record (PCHR). This will be the first instance in which two separate health care provider organizations will feed a single PCHR from their different electronic medical record (EMR) systems - giving patients a more complete, comprehensive view of their medical information.

"We see this as a major step forward in the advancement of the ultimate goal of PCHRs and ongoing efforts to create data liquidity for patients and providers," said Daniel Nigrin, MD, MS, chief information officer at Children's. "This will exemplify a revolutionary new model for health information exchange and present combined health data to patients in a way that is easily accessible and manageable."

Ambulatory patients at Children's may view their PCHR through the hospital's patient portal, MyChildren's, which was launched earlier this year. The PCHR is powered by the Indivo system, which was developed by researchers in the Children's Hospital Informatics Program (CHIP) as a way to give patients access to a portable, secure digital copy of their health and wellness information. Indivo displays information from the hospital's EMR system from Cerner Corporation and gives an individual the ability to grant permissio
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