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NoMoreClipboard.Com(TM) Personal Health Record Demonstrates Ability to Communicate With Health Plans and Care Providers

Posted on: Thursday, 5 April 2007, 15:00 CDT

Most patients visiting a physician's office are immediately confronted with a clipboard full of blank medical forms and a request for an insurance card. While the patient labors to complete the forms, the physician office staff copies the insurance card and makes contact with the health plan to confirm eligibility and determine deductible and co-pay amounts.

NoMoreClipboard.com, an online Personal Health Record (PHR), is working with healthcare providers and industry groups to simplify these transactions and save the patient and the medical practice significant time and effort.

CAQH, a nonprofit alliance of leading health plans, networks and trade associations, has developed standard business rules for information exchange that enable providers to electronically access health insurance eligibility and benefit information in a matter of seconds. These rules are now being put into practice by NoMoreClipboard.com, arming patients with real-time insurance benefits and helping them communicate with physicians.

At the HIT Summit, a gathering of healthcare IT professionals held last week in Washington, D.C., CAQH consultant Rachel Foerster presented the status of CAQH Committee on Operating Rules for Information Exchange (CORE) efforts. "I'm here to tell you it's been done in the real world -- in a real world environment," stated Foerster. "I'm beside myself in being able to talk about this -- this is actually happening."

Foerster then shared screen shots of the NoMoreClipboard.com application generating these transactions at the recent HIMSS07 Interoperability Showcase. Staged as part of the recent 2007 Annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference & Exhibition in New Orleans, the Showcase depicts realistic clinical scenarios enabled by the standards-based Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) framework.

During the Showcase, NoMoreClipboard.com demonstrated its ability to query health plans for eligibility and benefit information. The electronic responses from the health plans populated the PHR, and were also sent securely to an electronic medical record (EMR) used by physician practices to manage patient medical records.

"While these kinds of electronic transactions are routine in industries like banking, healthcare communication is still largely paper-based and labor intensive," said Jeff Donnell, NoMoreClipboard.com vice president of marketing. "Thanks to organizations like CAQH and IHE, we are breaking new ground and empowering patients."

"As the first PHR to incorporate the CORE standards, we have the opportunity to simplify healthcare for patients and physician offices," stated Donnell. "Now, a patient can go to NoMoreClipboard.com and create a complete medical history from home. This online record will contain their insurance information, along with medications, allergies, past illnesses and other important medical information. Prior to an appointment, the patient sends this record to the doctor's office right from the application. As part of that transaction, we can query the health plan to verify coverage and get information about eligibility and benefits. When the patient arrives for the appointment, the medical office already has their filled out forms and knows the status of insurance coverage. The patient and the practice save valuable time."

About NoMoreClipboard.com

NoMoreClipboard.com, is an online, patient-controlled personal health record management system designed to consolidate medical information in one convenient and secure location for easy retrieval and updates. Subscribers are provided the convenience of seamlessly transferring their individual medical information, as well as that of their family members and anyone that they care for, onto the physician's specific medical forms, reducing the need to complete repetitive medical paperwork.

NoMoreClipboard.com was established in 2005 to develop innovative web-based solutions for consumers seeking to establish an online personal health record (PHR). The NoMoreClipboard.com leadership team leveraged their extensive clinical health care and technology experience to create a PHR system that is consumer-friendly, interactive, secure and interoperable with physician practice approaches to capturing patient information.

About CAQH

CAQH is a catalyst for healthcare industry collaboration on initiatives that simplify and streamline healthcare administration. CAQH solutions help promote quality interactions between plans, providers and other stakeholders, reduce costs and frustrations associated with healthcare administration, facilitate administrative healthcare information exchange and encourage administrative and clinical data integration. Visit www.caqh.org for more information about CORE.

About IHE

IHE (www.ihe.net) is a global initiative, now in its seventh year that creates the framework for passing vital health information seamlessly - from application to application, system to system, and setting to setting - across multiple healthcare enterprises. IHE brings together healthcare information technology stakeholders to implement standards for communicating patient information efficiently throughout and among healthcare enterprises by developing a framework for interoperability. Because of its proven process of collaboration, demonstration and real world implementation of interoperable solutions, IHE is in a unique position to significantly accelerate the process for defining, testing, and implementing standards-based interoperability among electronic health records systems.

Source: Business Wire

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