LAS VEGAS - (Business Wire) WorldDoc, Inc. and its nonprofit arm the WorldDoc Foundation announced today a partnership to provide the Greater Ocala Health Information Trust, Inc. (known as Healthy Ocala and Greater Marion County) access to WorldDoc
’s 24/7 Personal Health Management System throughout the Ocala, Florida region.
WorldDoc’s 24/7 will provide patients in the Ocala area with secure, personalized health information including a Personal Health Record for storing health data, an interactive self-triage symptom evaluator, health assessment tools and a medical library. WorldDoc’s 24/7 Personal Health Management System (consumer portal) will be integrated with PatientKeeper’s Health Information Exchange (physician portal) and other existing and planned resources in the community.
“The WorldDoc 24/7 Personal Health Management System is an intuitively comprehensive online patient portal that truly emphasizes Personal Health Management empowering patients to take more responsibility for their healthcare,” said Mel Seek, MD, Chairman of the Greater Ocala Health Information Trust.
“Healthy Ocala” ultimately seeks to provide Greater Marion County with an Integrated Community Health Information System. This system will serve the needs of patients, physicians and other health care providers and facilities as well as the community at large, including employers, with the goals of improving health care delivery and outcomes and the overall health of the residents. The integration of WorldDoc’s consumer health tools and PatientKeeper’s clinical health systems is further enhanced by “Healthy Ocala’s” community involvement effort, which will leverage engagement and resources from local hospitals, the Marion County Medical Society, the Chamber of Commerce, retirement communities, insurance brokers, training institutions, churches and community-based organizations. This involvement helps keep implementation and operating costs low and adds to the financial sustainability of the Integrated Community Health Information System.
WorldDoc Foundation will provide a low cost community license for its 24/7 Personal Health Management System for “Healthy Ocala” to re-market to small employers as well as to retired, unemployed and uninsured residents through community organizations. WorldDoc and “Healthy Ocala” will jointly market the 24/7 Personal Health Management System to employers that self-insure or that have large employment bases in Marion County. “By the WorldDoc Foundation offering us a deeply discounted community license for the Personal Health Management System and integrating it with our Health Information Exchange, we are able to achieve our goal of a self-sustaining, patient-centric, physician-friendly and community-responsive Integrated Community Health Information System,” said Robert Holloran, Vice Chairman of the Greater Ocala Health Information Trust.
“By sharing revenue with “Healthy Ocala”, the WorldDoc Foundation is providing this new RHIO (Regional Health Information Organization) with the opportunity to be self-sustaining right from their start. We believe that this is a model that other RHIOs may want to consider,” said Garth Winckler, President and CEO of WorldDoc Foundation. “Adding a consumer portal and the ability for patients to directly participate in the community’s health information exchange improves health outcomes and provides operating support for the RHIO.”
About WorldDoc Foundation
Founded in 2004, the WorldDoc Charitable, Education & Research Foundation is a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization governed by an independent board of directors. Adding value to existing health and human services organizations, the WorldDoc Foundation extends the access of medical information resources to those who do not receive benefits through a health plan provider or employer. The Foundation’s strategy is to pursue partnerships and contracts with community-based organizations and state and local governmental entities to allow access to WorldDoc, Inc.’s Personal Health Management System, WorldDoc 24/7 at reduced fees. For more information, visit www.worlddoc.org.
About WorldDoc, Inc.
WorldDoc, Inc. provides an advanced Care Management System for Payers, Purchasers, and Providers of healthcare, improving health and reducing costs. Employing a fully hosted model, WorldDoc offers a suite of fully integrated products. WorldDoc’s products support each other with data and provide synergy effects by integrating medical, prescription and personal health data, contributing to effectiveness and cost savings in the areas of demand and disease management, pharmacy cost containment and disease prevention. For more information, visit www.worlddoc.net.
About PatientKeeper
As an innovator, creator and leading supplier of integrated physician information systems, PatientKeeper's applications provide a single point of anytime, anywhere access to clinical and financial data from multiple, disparate systems. PatientKeeper's technology automates the provider's day to transform their experience and improve satisfaction. The Company's physician-centric portal and mobile applications improve user satisfaction and patient safety, increase revenue and simplify data access and interoperability for community health information exchange. For more information, visit www.patientkeeper.com.
About Greater Ocala Health Information Trust, Inc.
Greater Ocala Health Information Trust, Inc. (dba Healthy Ocala and Greater Marion County) is a patient-centric, physician-friendly, community responsive Independent Health Record Trust as defined in HR-2991 “Independent Health Record Trust Act,” which is currently under consideration in the U.S. Congress. For more information, visit www.ocala.com.
WorldDoc, Inc.
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