University Times

UPMC is developing personal health record (PHR) technology that soon may give patients the ability to add critical health information to the electronic health records maintained by hospitals and physicians. UPMC completed the proof-of-concept project in collaboration with Google Health, Carnegie Mellon University and technology partner dbMotion.

UPMC and its partners have introduced a platform that shares patient information regardless of the system or format in which the data originally were stored.

What distinguishes UPMC’s integration with Google Health — expected to be launched for patients this spring — is the fact that the data will be aggregated from throughout UPMC and health care providers can share information securely with patients through the PHR and vice versa. The data will be part of the electronic medical record accessible to clinicians.