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Harris put together a diverse collection of health-care providers and computer scientists to create Cleveland Clinic's flagship online product, MyChart. Launched in 2005 on the clinic's website, MyChart allows patients to access their EHRs and find up-to-date medical research on their ailments. Doctors must log all examinations, lab results, prescriptions and diagnoses for patients to review. Mary Adams, who lives in a western suburb of Cleveland, is one patient who has come to rely on MyChart. "I can log on, it reminds me I need a tetanus booster, and I schedule it," she says...
...success of MyChart, which is used regularly by more than 120,000 Cleveland Clinic patients, inspired Dr. Toby Cosgrove, the hospital's CEO, to make an even bolder move. Doing away with decades of hospital tradition, Cosgrove declared last year that patients should have access to their EHRs at all times. Only a handful of hospitals worldwide have adopted this level of transparency. "The charts really aren't the hospital's--they belong to the patients," says Cosgrove, a heart surgeon. "We think it's their right to have that information...
Their work has won the Cleveland Clinic team a feather that any techie would covet in his cap--the attention of Internet giant Google. Cleveland Clinic was one of the search engine's early partners in Google Health, an online EHR service that was launched on May 19. For the hospital, it's an opportunity to expand patients' access to records. "We could only get so big on our own," says Joe Turk, a Web developer and the director of new products on the Cleveland Clinic technology team. "Google Health lets us go national...
Google Health is a universal version of Cleveland Clinic's MyChart. Instead of collecting the information from just one hospital, Google Health serves as an online clearinghouse for patient information. Once you've signed up for an account, which closely resembles Google's Gmail, you can grant permission for doctors, pharmacies or insurers to upload any pertinent data, thus creating a single destination for your whole health history that you can access from anywhere in the world. "Because a lot of medical information is not digital, it's not being put to good use," says Marissa Mayer, Google's senior...
...February, Cleveland Clinic and Google began a six-week pilot project of Google Health. Of the 15,000 Cleveland Clinic patients asked to participate, about 1,500 MyChart users signed up. Mayer described the test cases as "beautiful." They helped Google identify early adopters for Google Health--snowbird seniors who spend their time in different homes during the year, for instance...