New-age PHR comes with decision-support, multiple opportunities for DM.
New-age PHRs aim to uncover opportunities for quality improvement. Health plans have been scrutinizing administrative data for years, but thus far have not offered such analysis to patients or providers. Doing so is just part of the package that will soon be made available to the customers of Manhattan, NY-based ActiveHealth Management through Web-based personal health records. The approach is designed to get patients more involved in their own care, facilitating analysis of not just claims data, but patient-reported data as well.
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