PatientCentral Technologies, LLC of Houston, Texas, the parent company of MyHealthArchive, designs, manufactures, installs, implements and supports a suite of products and services that interactively connect hospital inpatients and outpatients in real time to the care they are receiving.

The PatientCentral™ Suite is a customizable hardware and software system that puts the patient at the center console of his or her own health information superhighway, empowering a better informed patient to more fully understand his or her treatment and to participate in real time, thus improving patient satisfaction, communication, healthcare quality and hospital efficiency.

Hospitals, clinics, nurses and physicians place high value on patient-centered care. To achieve truly patient-centered care, real time information should not only be gathered about each patient; it should also be provided to each patient, and input should be obtained from each patient.

Current clinical information systems work in the vicinity of patients, but do not directly include them.

In contrast, PatientCentral puts the patient in the center of the clinical information stream, directly connecting them to the surrounding professionals, machines and processes.

Hospitals and large clinics have mountains of data in incompatible electronic systems and even paper, yet are under increasingly urgent pressure to be more efficient and reliable while not increasing employee burdens, especially clinical personnel.

The fundamental ideas for the PatientCentral Suite are:

•  that the patient should have more awareness and control of his or her health care;
•  that the system automatically produces a uniform and reliable database of the location of personnel, major equipment and assets crucial to a hospital’s or large clinic’s business and clinical operations; and 
•  that the collected data should be used to improve patient care.

The PatientCentral Suite is modular. The PatientCentral System connects patients in hospitals to their health care team. MyHealthArchive helps patients collect and retain their medical histories. PatientLocator maintains a real time picture of where patients in a hospital are as they move through various tests and treatments. ProLocator and SeeKlinger similarly monitor movements of the health care team and important hospital equipment, respectively.

For more information, please visit us at http://www.patientcentral.com/.