Every day, tens of thousands of Americans seek treatment at hospital
emergency rooms or meet with a new physician. They all face a similar
dilemma: They are unable to quickly and seamlessly share their medical
records with their healthcare providers.
SecondOpinionExpert (www.secondopinionexpert.com)
solves this problem through its unique, proprietary electronic health
records (eHR) service, which also acts as a personal health profile and
manager.
This eHR service presents patients with a comprehensive online
questionnaire regarding their current health and medical history.
Additionally, patients can securely upload their medical records,
including test results and imaging studies (e.g., X-Ray, MRI, CT,
Ultrasound, etc.) with a few keystrokes of their computer. This creates
a fully integrated and personalized picture of the patient’s health
information (a “Health Summary Report”) that can be shared with any
healthcare provider, family member or any other individual they choose.
An Internet connection and web browser is all the patient needs to
utilize this service.
“The comprehensive online questions and answers regarding the patient's
health history and the image viewing feature incorporated in the eHR
will speed up and optimize the quality of medical care delivered to the
patient,” said C. Thomas Peter, M.D., SecondOpinionExpert's Chief
Medical Officer and a renowned cardiologist and electrophysiologist. “I
hope all patients and physicians take advantage of these features.”
SecondOpinionExpert's eHR service is completely secure, HIPAA-compliant
and free of charge. Patients will also have complete control over their
medical records and medical history.
“Too many patients are being inadvertently held captive by their
physicians and hospitals, whose business decisions have assured that
their medical records, whether in an electronic format or not, cannot be
easily shared by providers,” Mohan Ananda, SecondOpinionExpert's Chief
Executive Officer. Ananda is a successful entrepreneur who helped build
Stamps.com (NASDAQ: STMP) and Envestnet (NYSE: ENV) into highly
profitable publicly traded companies.
Ananda noted that many providers have incompatible eHR systems, meaning
they cannot share records or even communicate with one another at the
most basic level. SecondOpinionExpert’s innovative eHR service is the
only such service that combines comprehensive subjective patient health
information with objective medical data, and provides the user with
convenient access, management, and full sharing capabilities.
“Our company offers a truly universal and portable eHR. If you or your
loved one has to go to an emergency room or seek medical treatment
anywhere in the United States or the rest of the world, healthcare
providers can obtain your Health Summary Report containing your medical
history and relevant records with just simple Internet access and the
approval of yourself or an assigned family member,” Ananda said.
The system will also soon feature a mobile application, e-faxing and a
service to securely obtain medical records directly from a patient's
providers.
The free eHR service complements SecondOpinionExpert's mission to
provide online medical second opinions from its renowned nationwide
panel of Physician Specialists. That service will be available to
patients in early November.
More information on SecondOpinionExpert is available at www.secondopinionexpert.com.
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