MMO To Begin Offering Personal Health Records

According to Health Care Data Management Medical Mutual of Ohio plans to roll out a program this fall that will offer its members Medem's iHealth Personal Health Record, which automatically will be populated with members' claims data. Physicians using Medem Web sites can let patients enroll in a PHR when they are using the Web site to register for an appointment. Patients will be able to decide with whom to share their data. In addition, patients will own their PHRs, regardless of whether they switch physicians or insurers. However, Medical Mutual will be unable to populate a PHR with claims data if the member switches health plans (as reported in Health Data Management, 6/19).