SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING HEALTH CARE ALERTS VIA AN INTERACTIVE PERSONAL HEALTH RECORD

摘要

An automated system is described for presenting a patient with an interactive personal health record (PHR) capable of delivering individualized alerts based on comparison of evidence-based, best standards of care to information related to the patient's actual medical care. This will assure the patient that the PHR is providing him or her with optimal health care. A health care organization collects and processes a wide spectrum of medical care information, including clinical data relating to a patient and condition-specific medical reference data, in order to generate and deliver customized alerts, including Care Considerations and personalized wellness alerts, directly to the patient via an online interactive personal health record (PHR). In addition to aggregating patient-specific medical record and alert information, the PHR also solicits the patient's input for tracking of alert follow-up actions and allows the health care organization to track alert outcomes.