Personal Health Records

BHIX is exploring ways to provide patients with access to their own health information, including creation of a BHIX patient portal. Allowing patients access to their own health information, and providing relevant health alerts and related information, is a top priority for BHIX. BHIX expansion plans include an effort to promote patient participation in important decisions regarding prevention, treatment and lifestyle behaviors.

Likewise, BHIX is exploring ways to incorporate health information exchange with personal health records (PHRs). The exact definition of a personal health record (PHR) is still evolving, but, generally speaking, PHRs are electronic systems that are under the control of patients and which can make patients the stewards of their own health information. PHRs may contain data from payer claims databases, clinician electronic health records, pharmacy dispensing records, commercial laboratories and even patient self-entered data.

Please check back soon to see our progress in creating a patient portal and exchanging data with personal health records.