Habersham Medical Center will enlist digital provider PocketHealth to ease access to medical reports for more than 80,000 patients and doctors.
HMC will be the first hospital in Georgia to use this program, allowing storage of their medical imaging and reports securely on any device and skipping the CD-ROM process.
“Patients will no longer need to travel to the healthcare facility to collect a CD-ROM of their records and transport it to their next appointment or hope that their critical health information makes it safely to their primary care physician,” PocketHealth spokesperson Livy Jacobs said. “With PocketHealth, HMC’s patients will be able to actively engage in their own healthcare journey by accessing and sharing their imaging reports with their physicians, caregivers, or family members from any device, anywhere in the world.”
Physicians and other healthcare professionals who share and receive diagnostic images with Habersham will be able to work within the medical center’s existing infrastructure and won’t need additional software or account setup. They will be able to view patient imaging instantly in full diagnostic quality or import those images into their local communication systems for diagnosis.
“We are very excited to make the healthcare experience much easier than it has been for patients at Habersham Medical Center, and in implementing PocketHealth at our hospital, we are equipping patients to be participants in their own medical journey,” said Tyler Williams, President, and CEO of Habersham Medical Center. “Until now, when medical imaging and reports were shared it required our patients to make unnecessary trips to the site.”
Patients can now request all of their imaging records from HMC on the PocketHealth website and gain better insights into their reports with PocketHealth’s Report Reader functionality, which breaks down and defines complex medical terms found within radiology reports.
“Diagnostic Imaging is essential to understanding a treatment course or for soliciting second opinions and can often be the spark for a long-term care journey,” said Rishi Nayyar, co-founder and CEO, PocketHealth. “PocketHealth is thrilled to work with Habersham Medical Center to make it easy for patients and care providers to move through an image-based journey without the unnecessary frustration that often comes with records release and CD-ROM hardware.”
Habersham Medical Center conducts approximately 125,000 imaging exams each year.
– Staff reports