HealthLynked Completes Data Integration with athenahealth, Inc. Providing Patients with Easy Access to Medical Records
HealthLynked Corp. (OTCQB: HLYK) has announced the completion of its data integration with athenahealth, enabling patients to easily access their medical records. This integration utilizes athenahealth's API, allowing patients to request their health data and verify their identity through HealthLynked's practice portal. With access to critical health information such as medications and lab results, this partnership aims to improve patient care and reduce delays in treatment. Patients will incur a small fee for each record request, while practices can onboard swiftly through athenahealth's marketplace.
- Completion of data integration with athenahealth enhances patient access to medical records.
- Utilizes athenahealth's established API, tapping into a large network of healthcare providers.
- Encourages patients to take ownership of their healthcare information, potentially improving treatment outcomes.
- Patients will be charged a fee for each record request, which may deter some users.
- Integration and service deployment in clinical sites may face implementation challenges.
Naples, FL, Sept. 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- HealthLynked Corp. (OTCQB: HLYK), a global healthcare network focused on the care management of its members and a provider of healthcare technologies connecting doctors, patients and medical data, today announced that is has completed the development of its data integration with athenahealth, Inc. that provides patients with easy access to their medical records.
HealthLynked's Application Programming Interface (API) with athenahealth's EMR will allow patients to request their health data from connected practices, thus enabling patients to keep track of their health information and take ownership over the sharing of their medical data. Patients who enter an initial request will have their identity verified by the participating practice using HealthLynked's practice portal. Practices will be able to onboard quickly using athenahealth's existing integration marketplace.
The integration works by leveraging athenahealth's extensive API to provide data that is typically only available to health plans and health information exchanges. Patients can access information such as medications, diagnoses, lab results, vitals, and appointment history in their HealthLynked patient record. Patients will be charged a small fee for each record request.
athenahealth is one of the top EMRs in the country with over 160,000 healthcare provider users and 153 million patient records across 110 medical specialties. athenahealth offers a cloud-based revenue cycle solution geared towards large, multi-physician groups and hospitals. athenahealth also caters to small and individual practices and was awarded Best in Klas Small Practice Ambulatory EMR/PM in 2020.
HealthLynked CEO, Dr. Michael Dent, stated, "Integration with athenahealth allows many of our patient members the ability to easily access their medical information and have their records available to all their healthcare providers. We will be deploying the integration in some of our clinical sites and we are excited to now offer this service to our existing patient members. Patients should be able to easily gain access to their medical information and share this with the healthcare providers they choose. Timely access to medical records will help improve treatment and reduce costly delays in care."
About athenahealth, Inc.
athenahealth partners with medical organizations across the country to drive clinical and financial results. Our vision is to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all, and we are pursuing this through our medical record, revenue cycle, patient engagement, and care coordination service offerings. Our expert teams build modern technology on an open, connected ecosystem, yielding insights that make a difference for our customers and their patients. For more information, please visit www.athenahealth.com.
About HealthLynked Corp.
HealthLynked Corp. provides a solution for both patient members and providers to improve healthcare through the efficient exchange of medical information. The HealthLynked Network is a cloud-based platform that allows members to connect with their healthcare providers and take more control of their healthcare. Members enter their medical information, including medications, allergies, past surgeries and personal health records, in one convenient online and secure location, free of charge. Participating healthcare providers can connect with their current and future patients through the system. Benefits to in-network providers include the ability to utilize the HealthLynked patent pending patient access hub "PAH" for patient analytics. Other benefits for preferred providers include HLYK marketing tools to connect with their active and inactive patients to improve patient retention, access more accurate and current patient information, provide more efficient online scheduling and to fill last minute cancelations using the Company's "real time appointment scheduling" all within its mobile application. Preferred providers pay a monthly fee to access these HealthLynked services. For additional information about HealthLynked Corp., please visit www.healthlynked.com and connect with HealthLynked on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
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