The project, a collaboration with Google Health, Carnegie Mellon University and dbMotion, will aggregate information from a wide range of technologies and present it to patients and physicians in an understandable and genuinely usable way.
The 20-hospital system, including 1,042-bed UPMC Presbyterian, will provide secure and bi-directional services so that providers and patients can share data back and forth.
Meanwhile, Citizens Memorial Healthcare, which runs a 74-bed hospital in Bolivar, Mo., is already operating its patient records system through Google Health, according to a report by Ozarks First.
Citizens Memorial is the third hospital system in the country and the first rural one to partner with Google Health on such a project.
The Missouri health system said hospitals are slow to use Google because setting it up is costly and time-consuming.
Read UPMC’s release on Google Health.
Read Ozarks First’s report on Citizens Memorial Healthcare.
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