title: Sustains--direct access for the patient to the medical record over the Internet.
abstract: The basic idea of Sustains III is to emulate the Internet banking for Health Care. Instead of an "Internet Bank Account" the user has a "Health Care Account". The user logs in using a One Time Password which is sent to the user's mobile phone as an SMS, three seconds after the PIN code is entered. Thus personal information can be transferred both ways in a secure way, with acceptable privacy. The user can then explore the medical record in detail. Also get full and complete list of prescriptions, lab-result etc. It's also an easy way of exchange written information between the doctor and the patient. So far Sustains has showed that patients are very satisfied and is also beneficial for the physicians.
authors.affiliation: County Council of Uppsala, Sweden. Benny.Eklund@it.ck.lul.se
authors.forename: Benny
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Eklund
authors.forename: Ingrid
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Joustra-Enquist
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D033283:Patient Access to Records; D013548:Sweden