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Hi shostack, I am so sorry part of your question was unanswered.

As I wrote in a couple other questions, patients' privacy and their data security are our top priority at PatientBank. What that means is, in any product or business decision, patient satisfaction, happiness and their trust in our service are top things we consider.

So, we would not share patient data with any third party without patients' explicit consent!

Hope this clarifies things!

Great question! For Microsoft's HealthVault, patient would have to gather the records themselves AND enter the information into HealthVault manually.

We make it super easy for patients to gather their medical information and make it even easier to manage (share with physicians, family members etc.) their information.

Thanks mbesto - we appreciate your support :)

Hey Meegul, thanks for your comment! We'd love to chat! You can always reach out to me at [email protected] or [email protected]!

About exporting the data we gather to a new PHR and integrating the new information to patient's existing chart:

There seems to be a couple options!

1) Once we gather your records, we will work on creating a shareable summary of your health history. In that case, the physician can look at that summary via our web portal.

2) In many cases, most EHRs support the upload of PDFs. So, the documents you share can be "integrated" to hospital's EHR. This already happens in large hospital networks when hospitals gather medical records on behalf of patients before their appointments! When hospitals receive the records via fax or mail, they scan the pages to the EHR. Obviously, in the future, easier ways to export data (via EHR integrations) could be extremely valuable to patients and physicians!

Hi ams6110 - we also use Aptible! It is definitely true that the old, fax-based system is not so prone to mass data breaches. That is one of the reasons why hospitals still use fax to transfer medical information.

But, at PatientBank, security and privacy of our patients are our top priorities. So, we go above and beyond what HIPAA recommends in terms of security best practices. You can read more about that here: https://www.patientbank.us/legal/hipaa

In addition to identity verification, there are two more things we do to protect the privacy of our patients!

1) If the electronic signature on a given request doesn't match the name of the patient, we make sure that the patients are who they say they are before moving on with gathering the medical records.

2) If one tries to sign up on behalf of another patient, we require a Power of Attorney (POA) document!

Hope this answers your question!