Dive Brief:
- An ongoing study relaying data from implantable cardiac devices into personal health records is showing encouraging early returns, researchers say.
- In 2011, the ONC awarded a grant looking at consumer-mediated data exchange to Indiana Health Information Technology and PHR developer NoMoreClipboard. The study, working with Fort Wayne, IN-based Parkview Physicians Group, gave 200 patients who had undergone coronary revascularization a NoMoreClipboard PHR account and training on its use.
- The initial pilot found that patients with a PHR were more engaged than the control group, and also, the intermediate outcomes such as LDL cholesterol and hemoglobin A1c were improved.
Dive Insight:
Since then, study leaders have sold ONC on a project in which twenty patients with ICDs developed by St. Jude Medical agreed to a remote monitoring study that sends device data directly into their NoMoreClipboard PHR. Devices are monitored at home by a modem that sends data to a proprietary server at St. Jude Medical. The server then uses data filters to break the data down into a profile patients can understand. The data allows patients to monitor events that occur with the device, including all 450 data elements if they wish. Researchers think this will go further in the direction of engaging patients with their care.