PatientCentral makes its technologies available to customers through licensing of interoperable personal health record and tracking systems which enhance the scope of information capture, and which augment decision support, enhance patient safety, improve communication and care coordination, and expedite information access to key personnel or resources. PatientCentral Technologies’ modular products span the entire continuum of patient care, allowing patients and health care providers to communicate effectively using secure, integrated best-in-class technology. Each component is user-customized and can be used within a module of the composite PatientCentral System, or as a stand-alone product. The structure of integrated modules and components creates a very powerful system, while allowing flexibility for institutions that may have budgets that fit better with stepwise acquisitions or integration with legacy systems.

PatientCentral’s Modular Personal Health Record and Tracking Systems:

MyHealthArchive® Ultimate and MyHealthArchiveLite® ( www.MyHealthArchive.com )

MyHealthArchive safely and securely maintains patients’ long term healthcare history across inpatient and outpatient visits and events, and also stores information regarding current prescription medications, chronic health concerns, and emergency contacts. The information is stored in MyHealthArchive’s remote servers, and is available by secure Internet access or may be downloaded to a USB key, PDA or similar device, and made available in emergencies. Using emergency contact information contained in MyHealthArchive or MyHealthArchiveLite, physicians and hospitals may be able to assist in connecting patients and their families separated by disasters. This would have saved so much suffering in Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita. MyHealthArchive is invaluable to patients with chronic diseases for whom knowledge of prior medical treatment may mean the difference between life and death. MyHealthArchive is designed to do much more than merely archive information – MyHealthArchive brings a person’s health information to life to be used daily to promote wellness and healthiness.

MyHealthArchive and MyHealthArchiveLite have been designed to interface with DisasterLink® to facilitate getting patient identification, medical history, and reunification information to greatly enhance the timeliness, safety and efficacy of care in emergencies and disasters

MyHealthArchive® Ultimate is an optimal tool to identify a patient and to connect the patient to his or her medical care. MyHealthArchive is a highly secure, web-based personal health record which pre-positions individual full medical history and allows EMS, hospitals and physicians to more rapidly and completely access medical information. MyHealthArchive Ultimate includes a variety of tools for patients that have been designed to augment health and wellness and communication between patients and physicians. These tools allow patients gain insight into managing common medical problems, keep track of progress in managing chronic illnesses; organize medications; upload and store important documents and communicate with health care providers by e-mail and fax. Each MyHealthArchive subscriber can elect to use our Gold Level Service which includes our personal health record Concierge who can help with the process of retrieval and organization of medical records.

MyHealthArchiveLite® is a limited version of MyHealthArchive containing patient identification, demographics, and physician and provider information. MyHealthArchiveLite is intended to rapidly connect a patient in an emergency or disaster to sources of medical information about the patient as well as to promote reunification with family. Simply, MyHealthArchive contains the actual comprehensive medical history about you, and MyHealthArchiveLite contains just the contact information to enable rapidly acquiring that medical history about you. MyHealthArchiveLite is intended both for individuals and for whole communities. MyHealthArchiveLite can be packaged for a whole community for use in conjunction with DisasterLink® as part of a community’s disaster management system. A MyHealthArchiveLite subscription may be readily upgraded to a MyHealthArchive personal subscription, as desired.

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PatientCentral Suite®

Modular technology in a suite of products and services that interactively connect patients in real time to the care they are receiving, placing them at the center of their health care. Modules include DisasterLink, Prolocator, PatientLocator, AssetLocator. 

DisasterLink®

DisasterLink’s technology provides capability to retrieve and store data for each patient during every phase of disaster management from the emergency or disaster scene through to hospitalization and family reunification. DisasterLink helps reunify people in a disaster scene with their families even if they are not injured. DisasterLink provides prodigious insight into management of large-scale disasters where multiple casualties must be evaluated, transported, treated and information processed; to ensure proper coordination, communication, and synchronization of local, regional and national level efforts.

First-responder data can be immediately transmitted to the Incident Commander’s server where it interfaces with DisasterLink using RFP and RFID tags, barcode readers, keyboard input or even voice. Patient specific information can be communicated through an Internet -based interface with each assigned hospital and then aggregated. Analyzed data can be made available to authorized agencies on a ‘need to know basis’ such as public health departments and regional disaster management agencies, such as FEMA. DisasterLink may provide bi-directional interface of limited identification data with family re-unification processes.

DisasterLink complies with National Incident Management System (NIMS), Hospital Incident Command System (HICS IV), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Public Health Information Network (PHIN) standards through highly secure, real-time and bi-directional jurisdictional data access which can be used for strategic planning and tactical interagency deployment, work-flow optimization, asset management, risk mitigation and damage control.

ProLocator®

The professional locator module is a wireless tracking and tracing, personnel flow analysis system which can help manage human resources within and between hospitals and health agencies. On an everyday basis and especially during mass casualty disasters, ProLocator can be a valuable means of optimizing work flow. Using a tag embedded with a radiofrequency chip which tracks location, key individuals can be located across a geographical area. ProLocator can be interfaced with DisasterLink to augment capabilities to locate and transfer key personnel to areas which may have a critical need for expertise or for deployment of personnel who may be in short supply in some geographical areas.

PatientLocator®

The PatientLocator Module is an passive wireless patient tracking system which utilizes a radiofrequency chip that traces in real-time the precise location of patients as they move within a healthcare facility through patient treatment areas such as various laboratories, radiology, operating rooms, recovery rooms, ICU, ED, cafeteria, and other locations. Accurately knowing where a patient is at any given time improves compliance with medication regimens, physician and health care personnel efficiency and patient security. PatientLocator provides passive, efficient and reliable monitoring of patient movement without incurring enormous expenses for either nursing or clerical staff, while at the same time reducing their workload and refocusing them onto the real nature of their work. PatientLocator can be interfaced with DisasterLink to augment capabilities to locate individual patient’s minute-by-minute in support of resource deployment and reunification efforts.

AssetLocator®

The AssetLocator Module is an optional passive wireless asset tracking system which utilizes radiofrequency technology to track the location of expensive assets, including computers, IV pumps, durable medical equipment and pharmaceuticals on a routine basis or during disasters where resources are limited and redundancies can be costly. The AssetLocator can be interfaced with DisasterLink to augment capabilities to locate equipment and supplies which may be in short supply in some geographical areas affected by a disaster incident.

Services:

Our services include technical and clinical consulting and management for hospitals and health agencies: Since the technical and clinical aspects often overlap, our approach is to blend both areas of expertise into meeting the needs of our customers. We provide services in a broad array of areas which include:

• System verification and analysis. This includes a survey of feasibility for implementation of wireless tracking, tracing and communication technologies within and across agencies;
• Design, Planning and System Customization. This includes customization of novel information management, tracking, tracing and communication technologies to support customer needs;
• Physical synthesis. This includes design and oversight of implementation of processes and systems to support improvement in coordination and synchronization of disaster preparation and management;
• Virtual platforms. This includes design of technologies to support processes and systems to improve coordination and synchronization of disaster preparation and management;
• Test automation and system integration. This includes design and customization of analytical tools to optimize quality, improve safety, reduce redundancy, enhance efficiency and promote reimbursement for services where applicable;
• Employee training. This includes custom design and coordination of training programs to support health care providers and support personnel  in areas of technology application, process improvement, and disaster preparedness activities including mock drills;
• Customer support. Once technology systems are implemented, we support of key personnel in application of technologies.
• Professional services.  Consulting services are tightly aligned with our products to advance customers’ learning curves and help them develop and deploy advanced methodologies to improve productivity, safety, and performance.

 

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