Late last week, MTBC — a provider of proprietary, web-based electronic health records and various mHealth solutions — announced the launch of PHR 2.0.
PHR 2.0 is an enhanced personal health record for patients that the company calls “cutting edge.” And with one glance at the revised features and capabilities of the platform, that’s clearly a fair assessment.
According to details shared with mHealthWatch, the update builds on the core functionality of MTBC’s personal health record portal platform. Now, PHR 2.0 allows patients to do the following:
View availability and schedule appointments
Send and receive secure patient-provider communications
Check-in on the day of the appointment
View balances and process payments
Access patient charts
Request prescription refills
Update demographic and insurance details
“While encouraging electronic patient-provider engagement is a key objective under meaningful use stage 2, it has proven to be very challenging for healthcare providers throughout the country,” said MTBC President Stephen Snyder.
“PHR 2.0 helps our providers gain traction in engaging patients by extending personal health record functionality to the web environment and including unique features that enhance the patient experience such as appointment scheduling and prescription refill requests,” Snyder adds.