1. Tell me my diagnosis, what it means to me, and what I can do myself to
better manage the issue.
2. Tell me my medical tests results and what they mean to me.
3. Tell me my treatment options, and help me participate in the treatment
decisions.
"Now there is an easier way to help doctors keep their patients fully
informed and engaged -- and extend the benefits of 'meaningful use'
provisions outlined by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act," says
Don Kemper, Healthwise CEO and co-author of the new paper "Getting Patients
to Meaningful Use: Using the HL7 'Infobutton' Standard for Information
Prescriptions" (http://hwinfo.healthwise.org/docs/DOCUMENT/8325.pdf).
The soon-to-be-finalized Health Level 7 (HL7) International Context-Aware
Knowledge Retrieval Standard (nicknamed the "Infobutton" Standard) makes it
possible for providers of electronic health records (EHRs) and personal
health records (PHRs) to deliver the information therapy the patient needs.
This draft standard has been widely adopted since 2007.
The HL7 "Infobutton" standard was first developed primarily to deliver
contextually relevant decision-support information for the physician -- and
it does that well. Now it can also be used to request and prescribe the
information the patient needs to actively manage his or her health issues.
Read the white paper: "Getting Patients to Meaningful Use: Using the HL7
'Infobutton' Standard for Information Prescriptions"
(http://hwinfo.healthwise.org/docs/DOCUMENT/8325.pdf) by Don Kemper, MPH,
Healthwise CEO; Guilherme Del Fiol, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Division
of Clinical Informatics, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke
University, and Co-Chair, HL7 Clinical Decision Support Work Group; Leslie
Kelly Hall, Healthwise Senior Vice President; and Shawn Myers, RN, MBA,
Healthwise Senior Product Manager.
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