ANN ARBOR – White Pine Systems, which provides online personal health record systems, announced Tuesday that Advanced Medical Records Solutions has signed a long term contract for its personal health records solution called SPINNphr, the Secure Personal Information and Notification Network.
“As we see from all the recent discussion of healthcare reform, we are entering a new era when patients, their families and healthcare providers expect better tools to manage healthcare, lower cost and improve the quality of life,” said Dr. Carlos Santos, President and CEO of AMRS. “We believe that White Pine’s SPINNphr is the most creative, functional system for personal health records on the market today. Through this alliance, we are confident that we will help reduce cost while improving the quality of healthcare in our community. We are very excited about our new relationship with White Pine Systems.”
Built on the Microsoft HealthVault personal health information platform, SPINNphr is designed to allow doctors, hospitals or other healthcare providers to offer their own privately branded PHR solution. Through SPINNphr, healthcare providers will be able to automatically update a member’s personal health record with the latest information so the patient or his/her family does not have to enter everything manually. Members can also use SPINNphr to send secure messages to healthcare providers and keep track of appointments and other health-related activities.
AMRS plans to offer SPINNphr to an extended community in Western New York under the names of medicalEme and MyEChart, which will be offered to patients and their families through participating hospitals, physicians and insurers.
“We are honored by AMRS’s selection of SPINNphr for their PHR system,” said Doug Dormer, White Pine’s president and founder. “Through medicalEme, members will have access to important medical information, anytime, any place to improve quality and lower cost.”
The new medicalEme and MyEChart PHR solutions are scheduled to go into pilot production in mid August with two physicians’ groups in Buffalo and to be available generally throughout western New York in the early fall
AMRS is a privately held company based in Buffalo, NY. It delivers quality automation solutions to medical providers throughout western New York State under the medicalEme and MyEChart brands.
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