INCREASING PATIENT TRUST AND PARTICIPATION

Patients who understand the long term benefits of HIEs and trust in HIE systems are much more likely to participate in HIEs. Increasingly states and HIEs must confront policies of Patient privacy and permissions- whether to ‘opt-in’ or ‘opt-out’ and how far permissions extend.

Ultimately trust will be the result of Patient empowerment and confidence in the ability to access, view, edit and audit their electronic medical records. FolioMed’s Expert Provider Databases enhance Patient empowerment by delivering:

• Accurate Provider contact information
• Provider location and practice types
• Indirect Providers such as Labs and Pharmacies
• Provider profiles

Expert Provider Databases provide a robust and consistent format with demographic attributes that Patients can use to easily identify and locate Providers, facilitating Provider to Patient and Patient to Provider communications and increasing critical Patient trust in the HIE.