Empowering patient through personal healthcare system using interoperable electronic health record

In the U.S., preventable medical errors claim the lives of about 400,000 patients per year. Much of it is blamed for the lack of interoperable medical information at right time. Often times, personal medical information is stored in multiple clinical institutions in non-sharable format such as paper based. To provide effective and continuity of care, personal medical data need to be shared and patients must be in control of their own medical record - no decision about me without me. In this talk, I propose a model that addresses such issues. It allows patients to monitor and control their own health using medical data collection tool, ontological diagnosis support and personalized medical education. It also allows the communication with clinical institutions and physicians using standardized health record format such as HL7 CDA to implement continuity of care.