Verizon, MEDfx pilot document-sharing program
Verizon and MEDfx have implemented a pilot program to convert paper records to a digital format and share them with other authorized providers.
The participants in the pilot are Dominion Medical Associates, an independent minority-owned physician practice in Richmond, Va.; CenVaNet, a healthcare provider network with 900 physicians and 11 nonprofit hospitals serving central Virginia; and MedVirginia, a community-based health information exchange (HIE).
Under the pilot, physicians at Dominion Medical Associates scan paper care-management documents of diabetes patients and send the documents, via a MEDfx physician Web portal, to CenVaNet care managers, according to Verizon. The portal uses common standards and protocols to digitize and securely transfer the documents and make them accessible on a variety of health IT systems.
The document data are then tagged and stored in the MedVirginia HIE, enabling care managers from Dominion Medical Associates, CenVaNet and MedVirginia to share, store and retrieve encrypted patient data and coordinate patient care, Verizon said.
The digitized records can be printed out and stored in Dominion Medical Associates' current paper-based records system for migration to an EHR system once Dominion implements its platform, the company added.
The participants in the pilot are Dominion Medical Associates, an independent minority-owned physician practice in Richmond, Va.; CenVaNet, a healthcare provider network with 900 physicians and 11 nonprofit hospitals serving central Virginia; and MedVirginia, a community-based health information exchange (HIE).
Under the pilot, physicians at Dominion Medical Associates scan paper care-management documents of diabetes patients and send the documents, via a MEDfx physician Web portal, to CenVaNet care managers, according to Verizon. The portal uses common standards and protocols to digitize and securely transfer the documents and make them accessible on a variety of health IT systems.
The document data are then tagged and stored in the MedVirginia HIE, enabling care managers from Dominion Medical Associates, CenVaNet and MedVirginia to share, store and retrieve encrypted patient data and coordinate patient care, Verizon said.
The digitized records can be printed out and stored in Dominion Medical Associates' current paper-based records system for migration to an EHR system once Dominion implements its platform, the company added.