We have been revolutionizing healthcare for decades with innovations in data collection and sharing to improve data flow, easing the burdens of clinicians and researchers, and giving a voice to patients.
PatientLink started our journey over two decades ago with the vision to provide quick, accurate, and complete data flowing from patients into their clinician’s EHR as structured data, allowing clinicians and staff to focus on taking care of the patient instead of manually entering data into the EHR. This platform provides multiple ways for patients to send data to their clinician using “PatientLink Scan”, “PatientLink Online”, and “PatientLink 360”. PatientLink received two patents as the first system ever built to send structured data from patients into EHRs. This was only the beginning of our innovations.
As time progressed, we broadened our scope to allow patients to pull their data from the EHR systems of their healthcare providers. We recognized that patients had their data fractured over many health systems, with many of the systems having only partial data on the patient. Patients did not have a single view of their health in one system, and the partial data in some clinics presented a health risk for the patient. To solve the problem, we created MyLinks. MyLinks provides patients with the ability to gather all their health data from their multiple providers into one system fully controlled by them (the patient). We are able to accomplish this task because we built MyLinks using the data interoperability standard mandated by the government for all certified EHRs, FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources). MyLinks won first place in a US government national competition as the best Consumer Health Data Aggregator. This award encouraged us to continue pursuing our goals to improve health and care by improving the quality and flow of health data between even more systems.
Our next journey focused on improving data flow to researchers. With the increasing use of EHRs and the ability for patients to gather and share their data, we developed ResearchLink to enable researchers to receive accurate data from the EHR without having to manually enter it into eCRFs, registries, or other research databases. Government mandates require EHRs and providers to give patients their data via FHIR applications (like MyLinks). We also enable patients to easily share other data (PROs, Adverse Events, questionnaire responses, etc.) with researchers. Our “Smart Health Data Mapping API” accurately maps data pulled from the EHR, providing an EHR agnostic platform to allow data to flow from any EHR to the eCRF and in the data format needed by the receiving system.
