Care Commissioning Organizations

The Individual Health Record: The Key to GP Led Commissioning Success

New arrangements for Care Commissioning Organizations promise to be a new way to deliver quality care at a sustainable cost.  While the potentials are profound, the risks are high for Commissioner stakeholders without a health record/infrastructural solution in place that creates a single operational platform for all constituencies integrating everyone’s data into a single way of viewing each participant. The new arrangements for Care Commissioning Organizations rely heavily on collaborative care among all stakeholders, including patients who have a major self-care role in the chronic disease that is the bulk of healthcare costs.  The viability of each commissioner is contingent on the synchronization of risk, incentives, workflow and technology.  All of these must be centered on the individual – getting the right care at the right place by the right provider and ensuring that each caregiver has the most current and needed clinical information in a quickly usable and useful form.

The Individual Health Record (IHR)  is the first health information solution that meets the complete operational needs of Care Commissioning Organizations. By allowing all participants involved in an individual’s care to access and enter information in a secure record where the information is transformed into a single understanding, the IHR fosters (or creates) collaboration among all stakeholders involved in an individual’s care, empowers providers to deliver a higher quality of care, and allows individuals to be fully engaged in the process.