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We are looking for volunteers to help us explore how and when an online personalized health record could be useful to patients, their families and doctors. Please sign up and share your thoughts.
About Us
AccessMyHealth.org is a partnership of Washingtonians—patients, doctors and others—that is exploring ways to improve patients’ access to their personal health information.
The AccessMyHealth.org partnership, convened by the Washington State Health Care Authority, is supporting the concept of online personalized health records to help patients gather and store their health information to share with their doctors, family members and others. When patients have more information, they can partner more effectively with their doctors and take greater ownership of their health and healthcare.
- We want to:
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- Give patients access to the tools and information they need to improve their health.
- Give doctors and patients the ability to share and compare information.
- Make it easier for patients to securely gather and store a copy of their health information to share with doctors, family members and others.
- Create a copy of each patient’s health record that is portable, easily accessible, and comprehensive.
- Why:
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- Patients often do not have ready access to their own health information. With an online personalized health record, patients will have the ability to view and share a copy of their medical record as they choose. An online personalized health record will provide a place to store information from your healthcare visits as well as any other health information you want to add. You will also have the ability to share both kinds of information with your doctor, family members and others.
- Our focus is on helping patients make great use of the time spent with their doctors. The goal of this project is to help patients have better and more convenient access to their medical information so that they can be more knowledgeable partners in their own care.
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- We are looking for volunteers to help us explore how an online personalized health record could be useful to patients, their families and doctors. To deploy an online record that truly meets the needs of Washingtonians, we want to hear firsthand from the people who will use it. You can help us today by taking our Online Health survey, and our Online Health Privacy survey. And don’t forget to Sign Up for updates to stay informed.
- Many patients across Washington will have the opportunity to join one of the three HCA-funded demonstration projects to explore a Consumer-Controlled Health Record Bank. Find out if there is a demonstration project in your area.