Healthcare - Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula

A patient who has more than one doctor signed up for PHIL can share any
results or other information with any or all of those physicians. Which physician
sees what information is always the patient’s choice. “There’s a sort of ‘friending’
procedure, not unlike Facebook,” Chavis says.
The value of the system grows as the number of participating doctors grows.
“We’re in the very early stages,” McNamara says. “But our end goal is for all of
the physicians in the community to have automated systems, and we’ll have ours
here, and all of these systems will talk to each other through PHIL.”
Marilyn and Tom Byrne, for two, are happy for the benefits PHIL gives them
now. The couple are four years apart in age and grew up just four blocks apart
in Pacifica. They went to the same schools, even attended the same church, but
never met until Marilyn was about to graduate from college.
“How clueless was I that I didn’t notice her before?” Tom wonders.
These days, though, he’s completely clued in to every aspect of his wife’s care.
“We’re incredibly sad, but also thankful for the hundreds, thousands, maybe
millions of women who have gone through this before and paved the path
for us,” he says.
And they’re thankful, too, for the technological advances that are making that
path a little smoother.
RAELENE SALGADO AND DR. SHARON WESLEY
WERE EARLY ADOPTERS OF ELECTRONIC
HEALTH RECORDS.
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