I just read about placing patient health data in the form of a Continuity of Care (CCR) record on a cell phone and want to carry the idea a little farther. Claudia Tessier described the Continuity of Care Record (CCR) as the ideal dataset to store a consumer’s personal health information on a cell phone
(Her presentation can be found at www.mohca.org.) It includes the following data:
- Payers
- Advance Directives
- Support
- Functional Status
- Problems
- Family History
- Social History
- Alerts
- Medications
- Medical Equipment
- Immunizations
- Vital Signs
- Results
- Procedures
- Encounters
- Plan of Care
- Healthcare Providers
I'd like to see this information available on other electronic devices like MP3 players! Can you imagine your pre-teen to young adult having asthma or diabeties and their health infomration being available on their iPod Nano? These "kids" don't always have a cell phone, but access to an iPod like device may be more appropriate and attainable for many families. I believe that parents of children with complicated medical conditions or chronic diseases will jump at the chance to load their child's health information on an MP3 for healthcare providers to use in an emergency or even for routine care.
Also, think of the baby boomers shedding the ties of a cell phone as they retire. Some may trade their cell phones for iPods so they can listen to the Stones and Bread instead of goofy ringtones and keep their private health information handy.
What ideas do you have for making this a reality?
Dear Christina,
I just ran into your article and I thought it was brilliant!
If we want consumers to become actively engaged in their health care, we need to provide them with the right tools - in particular those that naturally fit their lifestyles.
Your "wish" that you'd like to see clinical information portable - in particular on mp3 players and iPods, is coming perhaps sooner than you expected!
HealthFrame (our personal health record product - www.HealthFrame.com) supports CCR and our 2.1 release (due in early October) exports a patient's clinical information to their iPod, with the click of a menu item...
The use is simple - both transfering from HealthFrame, as well as using on the iPod. Our solution allows emergency personel, school nurses, specialists and other medical providers to navigate using the iPod interface to view a patient's medication list, emergency contacts, allergies, etc - all that's accessible from the CCR.
This is a very exciting development in truly empowering healthcare consumers!
Thanks,
Simone L. Pringle
Posted by: Simone L. Pringle | September 13, 2006 at 09:32 AM
Patients should be made very wary of the use of such remote storage devices in conjunction with public PC's.
for more information read about what this malware does to download and send back up files from connected devices.
http://scmagazine.com/us/sectors/article/36993/last-word-usb-devices-lean-mean-portable-threat/
In my opinion, healthcare workers should never be encouraged to connect such storage devices to their secure terminals.
Posted by: david | July 11, 2007 at 05:31 AM