Children's Hospital Boston, eClinicalWorks Team to Push Clinical Information Into Patients' Personally Controlled Heal...(ns to institutions clinicians researcher...),Health

"We built MyChildren's around Indivo to put patients in control of their health information and give them the opportunity to create a single, secure, unified view of their records," said Kenneth Mandl, MD, MPH, an attending physician in Children's Division of Emergency Medicine, CHIP faculty member and co-founder of the Indivo system. "With patients at the center of information exchange they can decide what information they want included in their record and who they want to have access to that information, be it a provider or family member. For physicians, PCHRs promise to be an integrated source of a patient's health care information, ensuring the data are in the right place at the right time - something that is oftentimes absent in today's health care environment."

Through this new collaboration, eClinicalWorks will begin to integrate its eClinicalWorks Electronic Health eXchange (eEHX) product, a solution for creating community records, with MyChildren's and to populate patients' PCHRs with information from PPOC practices. This information will be made available to patients via their existing MyChildren's account.

"Just as EMRs have transformed the way physicians practice medicine, PCHRs promise to change the medical process for patients - demystifying the process and activating individuals to become more involved in their health care," said Girish Kumar Navani, CEO and co-founder of eClinicalWorks. "eClinicalWorks has enjoyed a successful partnership with the PPOC and implementing EMRs in its member practices. We look forward to expanding our partnership with Children's and subsequently the health information that is made available to its patient families."

The PPOC partnered with eClinicalWorks in 2008 when 22% of participating providers used EMR in their practices. By October
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