MyHealthArchive™ and MedManager™: Patient Safety Partners

PatientCentral Technologies, L.L.C. regards patient safety as paramount to excellence in healthcare. We are dedicated to improving patient safety, providing tools for effective communication and partnership between patients, their physicians and healthcare professionals, and designing systems and processes which can reduce the risk of human error and harm.

We are in an extremely mobile society. MyHealthArchive's web-based technology makes possible improvements in the way medication regimens are conveyed by patients and by their physicians and hospitals. The security features of MedManager provide protected and HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) compliant access to health information virtually anywhere in the world a computer can connect to the Internet.

MyHealthArchive is valuable repository of healthcare information which can be compiled by patients and accessed by physicians and health professionals in any healthcare setting. MyHealthArchive is a revolutionary technology to encourage patients' active involvement in their own care as a patient safety strategy, in compliance with the 2007 National Patient Safety Goals from the Joint Commission for Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO).

Having access to the most up-to-date information about patients' health information and medications can be a challenge for hospitals, especially in circumstances where there may be multiple physicians in multiple institutions who may be prescribing medications for various medical problems.

According to The Institute for Healthcare Improvement, poor communication may be responsible for up to 50 percent of all medication errors and up to 20 percent of adverse drug events in the hospital. Hospitals and healthcare providers are required by JCAHO to comply with the 2007 National Patient Safety Standards. These standards require that physicians and healthcare professionals review previous medications orders alongside new orders and plans for care and reconcile any differences, a process known as medication reconciliation.

MyHealthArchive subscriptions can now be provided at a discount by hospitals and healthcare organizations for their patients to enable even better coordination of care for their patients through timely access to clinical information such as health histories, allergies and lists of medications prescribed at outpatient clinics, outpatient surgery centers, emergency rooms, inpatient hospitalizations, skilled nursing facilities, nursing home, as well as medications dispensed by pharmacies.

At the hospital and healthcare system level, MedManager can provide a seamless interface tool with MyHealthArchive for medication reconciliation, ensuring that physicians and healthcare professionals are creating the most accurate lists possible of all medications each patient is taking at admission, transfer or discharge, including the drug name, dosage, frequency and route of administration.

Healthcare research has shown that effective communication and teamwork is essential for the delivery of high quality, safe patient care. MyHealth Archive and MedManager communicate between hospital and physicians' offices, outpatient clinics, dialysis facilities, outpatient surgery centers, emergency rooms, endoscopy clinics, and hospitals. MyHealthArchive and MedManager help to maintain partnerships between healthcare providers and patients, since the patient becomes an active participant in his or her own healthcare..

MyHealth Archive and MedManager seek to eliminate communication failures which are known to be a common cause of inadvertent human error. The complexity and sophistication of medical care in a variety of clinical settings make standardized communication tools, such as MyHealth Archive and MedManager the powerful tools necessary to meet the needs to communicate.

MyHealthArchive provides the tools for every patient to become the center of the healthcare team. MyHealthArchive and MedManager ensure that physicians and healthcare providers get the right information at the right time and that patients are empowered to participate in their own care at all times and across all settings.