Family Health History Software for Clinical Applications

The Family Health History Software for Clinical Applications is a web-based, patient-entered, and user-friendly tool designed to collect, manage and report a patient's family health history to healthcare providers. As an advanced pedigree system, the program will identify and report potential risks for familial and genetic health conditions that can be linked to electronic records. This is critical, as the capture and clinical use of family health history information in EHRs is part of the final rule for Meaningful Use Stage 2, whose requirements will begin in 2014. Because this is about “Family Health”, the program will feature social networking methods to share information between 1st, 2nd, and 3rd degree relatives. In addition, data can be securely exported using a HL7 national standard to transmit between systems. The software is currently being used by SelectHealth, a health insurance company that is part of the Intermountain Healthcare system, to improve the quality of patient care. The software has been implemented within the Intermountain Healthcare’s patient portal.  Intermountain is renowned for its pioneering use of advanced clinical information system technologies to help healthcare providers make better decisions and control costs.  This software is available for license from Intermountain Healthcare. For further information, please contact Mike Mayer, 801-408-1095, mike.mayer@imail.org

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