Your job is providing high quality healthcare. Ours is assuring data integrity - your data integrity. You are the content producers of the highest value medical content - that which is used by the direct providers of health care for patient treatment.
If those providers are within your own medical center they are probably hooked directly up to your trusted Electronic Medical Records system so they base treatment on this information with confidence. Increasingly, patients see many downstream medical providers; they move to a new city; they go on vacation; they travel for business; and they seek second opinions. The reason you and all the other providers of primary medical care are actively getting involved with Personal Health Repositories--besides the fact is that patients are beginning to demand access to their own information--is that those downstream medical providers need as much accurate information about a patient as possible to provide the best possible treatment.
The problem is they don't trust information coming across the open Internet. And why should they? Any number of things could happen to the data along the way either malicious, fraudulent or just accidental. Regardless of how the data might be changed, the risk of basing treatment on incorrect data is too high and so this information is treated as advisory at best: repeat tests are ordered; releases are requested; signatures are exchanged; verified authentic records are requested via fax. All of this takes time and staff, adds significant cost to patient care, and delays treatment for the patient none of which is desirable. Lack of trust is the issue. As long as patient health records are delivered across the Internet with no authenticity and guaranteed integrity they will remain untrusted; they will be nothing more than advisory.
IAM HEALTH delivers a “military grade” service to build strong controls on your data so they can only be delivered intact to the Point-of-Care medical providers. Our service ranges from managing a medical data registry--key to assuring integrity of portable electronic health records in a browser--to advanced services that manage data privacy and confidentiality. We cryptographically validate that a record from your institution is valid and will not be repudiated at the institution of a new care giver. Our controls and compliance--managed for you by us--protects your brand and limits your liability while providing complete assurance of the provenance and integrity of records delivered to the Point-of-Care institution. It’s that simple.
IAM HEALTH is in the business of bridging the trust gap and therein driving down the cost of healthcare and improving the timeliness and quality of patient care. We do this by applying very powerful patented information security technology to the transfer of patient records between you--the originating hospitals, clinics, labs, imaging centers - and PHRs and ultimately to the final health care provider dealing with one of your patients. Unlike all other information security technologies that have been suggested or applied to the transfer of health information across the insecure Internet, IAM HEALTH's approach is very simple to implement, does not change the data work flow you have established, works with standard Internet protocols and applications, and is very fast and scalable.
