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HealthShare Personal Community Patient Data Access Product Area Guide




1. Overview

In Personal Community, patients can view a comprehensive overview of their medical records in the Records tab.   Personal Community supports filtering for the patient data and medications that patients are able to view. Patients can also access education content pertaining to information in their medical records.

The Records page in the public application contains the following sections:

  • Summary — This section contains an aggregated view of the following data types: Allergies , Medications , Care Team , Conditions , Procedures , Vaccinations .

  • Results — This section contains the following types of results: Lab Results and Radiology Results .

  • Care Plans This section contains any care plans patients have within   HealthShare Care Community.
  • Documents —  This section contains a patient's aggregated documents for them to view and interact with.

2. Filtering Patient Data

By default, Personal Community makes a patient’s entire medical record accessible to them. For various reasons, you may decide not to show patients their entire record. For example, you may delay the display of lab results for several days, so that providers can review these before their patients see them.

Personal Community allows you to create a filter for data before it reaches patients.

3. Filtering Medications

Patients can access their list of medications by going to the   Medications   section in the   Records   tab.

By default, Personal Community filters medications based on their encounter type. Medications are also classified as   active   or   inactive , which determines how they appear in the patient’s records. You may want to modify this filtering behavior to fit your specific needs.

Personal Community allows you to modify the filter for medications before it reaches patients.

4. In-Context Education

On the Summary page, Personal Community allows patients to consult educational resources relevant to the specific records they are viewing. For each eligible record, an info button may appear that links to educational content.

By default, Personal Community uses the MedlinePlus medical library as it’s source for in-context education content. MedlinePlus provides information from the U.S. National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health ( http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ ). You can configure Personal Community to access content from a different third-party source.

5. Business Decisions

When considering patient data access in Personal Community for HealthShare, you must make decisions regarding the following issues:


Filtering Patient Data

Whether or not to filter the data that patients can access, including whether a delay will apply before data appears in the patient record.


Making Records Viewable by Patients

Which of the following patient data categories to make available for viewing by patients (organized by tab in the   Records   page):

  • Summary   — This section contains an aggregated view of the following data types:   Allergies ,   Medications ,   Care Team ,   Conditions ,   Procedures ,   Vaccinations .

  • Results   — This section contains the following types of results:   Lab Results   and   Radiology Results .

  • Care Plans —   This section contains any care plans patients have within   HealthShare Care Community.
  • Documents   —  This section contains a patient's aggregated documents for them to view and interact with.


Filtering Medications

Whether or not to filter the medications that patients can access.


In-Context Education

Whether or not to enable information buttons for records in the  Summary  page.

If you do enable information buttons, whether to access in-context education content from MedlinePlus or another third-party provider. Using a provider other than MedlinePlus may require various contractual or legal arrangements, and additionally will require custom coding.


Patient-Facing Image Viewer

If you have a patient-facing image viewer, whether to make this available for patients to view images of their radiology results.


Modifying Page Content

Whether to modify page content related to patient data in the public application.


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