Individual Health Record (IHR) is an account of what matters most to the care and well-being of an individual. By design, it is made available when and where needed to all those that should have it in a maximally useful and fully interactive form. The IHR enables individuals and their caregivers to make informed choices about their health using all available information at the time choices are made. It transforms, repurposes, and incorporates the information from diverse source systems (including provider, health insurer, individual and caregiver-entered data) into a unified, individual-centric, interactive health environment for each individual.
IHR is much more than just a collector and viewer of health information. It incorporates innovative data management, rules and alerts, and workflow enhancing capabilities including a comprehensive health ontology that allows a generational leap in the delivery and management of health and healthcare.
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Electronic Health Records (EHR), Health Information Exchanges (HIE) and Personal Health Records (PHR) are regarded in the healthcare marketplace as tool sets that may be helpful. However, healthcare organizations are realizing that these various niche systems are not useful unless the data that is contained in all of them is brought together in an understandable and reusable format. IHR takes all data from any sources and creates a single health record in a single database that is then used to generate disease management plans, population health programs and real-time communication that changes the way care will be delivered for years to come.
Individuals across the country are accessing their Individual Health Record (IHR) as frequently as their bank accounts because they quickly learn that the IHR truly is a wellness and disease management tool that allows them to collaborate with their providers on their own individual health and wellness.