IBM previews patient portal technology
IBM’s Patient Empowerment System patient portal, previewing at CeBIT in Hanover, Germany, this week, expands the types of information that healthcare providers can offer to patients online.
The standards-based platform lets patients integrate and manage healthcare data for all medical needs, receive personalized recommendations or alerts for safer medical treatment, and access data from third-party health portals, hospital EMR systems, sensors, monitoring devices, online medical sites and other sources.
By integrating social and medical data from multiple sources, the system allows patients to take a role in their treatment, according to the Armonk, N.Y.-based company. The system is designed adjustable levels of privacy protection, enabling members to exercise control over the level of information in their profile that can be viewed by others.
The standards-based platform lets patients integrate and manage healthcare data for all medical needs, receive personalized recommendations or alerts for safer medical treatment, and access data from third-party health portals, hospital EMR systems, sensors, monitoring devices, online medical sites and other sources.
By integrating social and medical data from multiple sources, the system allows patients to take a role in their treatment, according to the Armonk, N.Y.-based company. The system is designed adjustable levels of privacy protection, enabling members to exercise control over the level of information in their profile that can be viewed by others.