Consumer-mediated health information exchange can help address lack of continuity in health records to improve care from multiple providers, according to new research published online in Telemedicine and e-Health.
The study involved training patients to use My HealtheVet, the patient portal of the Department of Veterans Affairs, to obtain their VA Continuity of Care Document (CCD); the CCD includes essential information such as allergies, medications, diagnoses and recent lab results from VA’s electronic health record system. Patients then could share this information with community-based providers outside the VA system.
