Stanford Health Care has unveiled a mobile health app which connects with its Epic EHR system and Apple’s Health Kit, along with other cloud services for patient health and data monitoring. The MyHealth iPhone app “puts all your health information at your fingertips and makes managing your healthcare simple and quick.”
Developed by in-house engineers, the MyHealth mobile app is iOS 8 ready and is geared toward letting patients conduct a number of tasks. They include appointment scheduling, getting lab and test results, and communicating through secured messaging with providers.
“At Stanford Health Care, we are reinventing how healthcare is delivered and our new custom MyHealth app is an important milestone in our efforts,” Amir Dan Rubin, president and CEO, Stanford Health Care, said in a press release. “We provide care for some of the most technologically sophisticated patients in the country, whose lives revolve around innovation. After carefully evaluating all of the available mobile technologies, we recognized that to meet the needs and expectations of our patients we had to develop our own solution that worked seamlessly with our existing electronic health record system.”
With the Stanford Health Care myHEALTH app patients can:
- conduct a virtual video visit with your doctor through the new ClickWell Care Clinic
- manage your prescriptions and medications
- view your health summary
- access and pay your bills
- share your vitals with your physician via HealthKit integration
The app also automatically syncs with wearable and wireless product, and that data is automatically and securely added to the patient’s chart in Epic for their physician to review remotely.
“The SHC MyHealth app allows patients to connect their lives with their health care,” Pravene Nath, MD, chief information officer at Stanford Health Care, said in the release. “By integrating with companies like Withings, our physicians have access to meaningful patient data right in Epic, without having to ask the patient come in for an appointment. We believe this is the future of how care will be delivered for many types of chronic conditions.
