National HIE Under Development
Microsoft, Covisint, and AT&T are working together to create a national health information exchange. The goal of the system is to enable communication between patients and healthcare providers and improve the overall healthcare experience.
This information exchange can foster improvements to care quality while giving patients increased control over their own care through access to their own health records. An additional proposed benefit of the system is the opportunity to reduce the cost of healthcare.
The HIE will be created with Microsoft’s existing HealthVault system. This solution is a platform used to both store and access personal health information. Patients who utilize the system can share personal health information with their clinicians. In order to access this information, clinicians must participate in the AT&T Healthcare Community Online.
A Covisint system, the On-Demand Health Platform, the patented eHealth solution from AT&T, and AT&T’s Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) network form the system backbone. Using these tools, information is electronically shared while secure.
June 23, 2008 Related topics: Partnerships & Consortia