Health Market Science

MMRGlobal recently announced it will work with UST Global to offer patients and healthcare providers with MyMedicalRecords Personal Health Record product. The two companies are also creating a pre-paid Personal Health Record card that can be sold at pharmacy retailers in the United States.

Robert Lorsch, chairman and CEO of MMRGlobal, said the goal of the partnership is to offer a complete suite of integrated electronic and personal health records solutions for providers, payers and pharmacy retailers. Electronic health records can be shared using MMR's personal health record platform, document management system and imaging technologies in conjunction with UST's development resources and infrastructure. According to Lorsch, pre-paid phone cards revolutionized telecommunications, and pre-paid personal health record cards will do the same for the healthcare industry.

Wellmunity Technology has also released an electronic medical record product to enhance the communication and collaboration between providers and patients. Med-Track 360 is a first of its kind, home-based PC software for patients living with cancer, their caregivers and families. The software enables those affected by cancer to take a more proactive role in their healthcare, by providing patients and caretakers with their own unique and personal patient records.

Med-Track 360 is a patient-centric program that was specifically designed for cancer survivors and their caregivers. The tools help cancer patients manage their daily tasks with the goal of a positive outcome. The software helps patients and caregivers track, organize, document, monitor and share all the information they are given on a daily basis from various healthcare providers. Patients can record their entire journey through beating cancer, from the first signs of illness, through treatment and into recovery. The software creates valuable reports on daily functions that can aid in patient care and help cancer patients better understand their situation.

It was created by Charles Georg, a cancer patient who needed a solution for the overwhelming amount of information and communications involved in his daily healthcare.

"In the past three years I have had over 250 appointments, including radiation and chemo treatments, imaging studies, procedures and surgeries with 20 different physicians at 14 medical facilities, while taking 35 different prescriptions," said Georg. "I was inundated with things to know, share, do, order, take, measure, monitor and remember, and communicate with my caretakers when I was not up to fully caring for myself."