Personal Health Record (PHR) Background
During the State of the Union Address in 2005 President Bush called for all Americans to have an electronic personal
health record within 10 years. Since then, more and more providers have become aware of and started offering
Personal Health Records to their patients. Some questions that come up are how do I provide a PHR to my patients and which
PHR is right for me. These can be difficult questions to answer. There are tens of PHR products on the market and currently no PHR standards.
Questions to Ask
How long has the company been in business?
What experience does the company have?
How is customer support handled for patients?
How much effort is required to provide medical records to patients?
What features are offered?
Do you offer Private Labeling?
What are you doing to stay abreast of evolving standards?
What services do you provide beyond just a PHR?
How is maintenance done when I upgrade to a new EMR version?
Solutions
The EMRy STICK is available on a USB thumb drive and will soon be made available on CD-ROM.
Once we have finished integrating with Microsoft HealthVaultTM patients
will be able to manage their medical data from many other sources.
Private Label
Blue Goose provides many options for you to customize the EMRy STICK. We will walk you through
the process of customizing the look and feel of your EMRY STICK so you are able to provide
the best possible experience for your patients.
Other Services
Blue Goose was started by a professional services group and have many years of experience
with technology solutions supporting systems integration and process automation.
Our in-house software products can help you automate many mundane and routine processes in your practice
providing tremendous time and cost savings. Some examples of such processes include Faxing of medical
records to another provider or electronically backing up your EMR to alleviate the need to print every patient record
on a daily basis.
As with the EMRy STICK we have the ability to quickly and easily integrate with virtually any software application
even when there is no standard means to do so such as via an API or database. An API or
application programming interface, specifies details of how two independent computer programs can interact.
