App Bridges Technology Gap and Disrupts Barriers to Patient Engagement

JACKSON, Miss., Feb. 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Imagine having years of your medical history available at your fingertips securely. The burden of recalling last year's treatment, prescription, dose or insurance coverage to your current, new or referred provider is alleviated.  The Health and Human Services (HHS) has called for new standards issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) in securely sharing patient data across systems.  Because of one woman's health scare, there's an app for that.

When veteran healthcare administrator, Debra Griffin, was fighting a battle with breast cancer in 1989, she was also in the fight to obtain, understand and make treatment decisions based on health records. Griffin's first-hand patient advocacy led to the development of PPX-Tec, a patient-provider exchange through a stand-alone mobile solution. She has been on a mission to empower patients with complete control over their medical data and shift the dynamic on how medical data is shared.  Government healthcare regulators are now moving the needle.

The recent announcement by government policymakers will directly affect programs like Medicare, Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act and their millions or subscribers.  The new policy will mandate core requirements in API standards along with provider vocabulary and training to make interoperabililty seamless.

In 2015 Griffin personally presented PPX to ONC in potentially providing a valuable interoperability resource. Clinic trials were completed November 2018.  A subsequent visit with ONC and HHS representatives led to a commitment of funding a 90/10 Use Case Demonstration Project with Griffin sourcing a state Medicaid partner.  Griffin was also invited to present PPX-Tec at the 2018 national conference of Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI), an official advisors to HHS and ONC on healthcare IT to foster and improve information exchange. 

"I believe that all patients should share in the ownership of their records in a simple and practical manner.  Accessing and integrating medical history to form a comprehensive, holistic approach for care is no longer a challenge due to PPX's unique share menu and paired functioning. The PPX app is a bridge," Griffin explained.

During each doctor's visit, the patient can use the PPX-Tec mobile app paired, one app on the patient's smart device and the other app installed on the provider's medical device to access and share health and insurance data via Bluetooth, signaled with a secure, self-generating token or code. The app can bypass data blocking when moving patient data over different systems. The app is cloud-ready and serves as a bridge to email, print, or export records as a PDF, Numbers document, CSV, HTML or XML.  PPX can share info with insurance companies and social services entities, reducing fraud and the cost of healthcare.  For more information on PPX, visit ppx-tec.com.

SOURCE Patient Provider Exchange

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