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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. 15
16 using electronic Records — professionally and personally As the director of Health Information Technology at Community Hospital, Charlene Webber-Schuss, RN, knows just about everything there is to know about electronic health records, and she’s a big fan. So when the hospital introduced PHIL (Peninsula Health Information Link), she signed right up and so did her doctor. Getting in touch with her doctor could be challenging in the past, Webber-Schuss says. “The times it’s convenient for me to call are either after work, when the office is closed, or at lunch, when the office is also closed.” But timing isn’t an issue any more. Now she can use PHIL to e-mail whenever she needs to. Like the time her daughter was having an allergic reaction to a medication; because she’s a nurse she knew it wasn’t so critical that she needed to contact her doctor immediately, but she wanted to let her know that she was discontinuing the drug. Webber-Schuss has also used PHIL to build a personal electronic health record for herself, entering the medications she takes along with immunizations, surgeries, and procedures she has had. At Webber-Schuss’ choice, her doctor has access to this record, and can add information to it whenever she wants to. This is also where any of Webber-Schuss’ lab or radiology results would be reported if her doctor okayed them to be released to her. If at any time Webber-Schuss sees more doctors, she can add them to her list of doctors. If they also use PHIL, PHIL will know and tell her so. Then she can choose to let these doctors also have access to her record (or not). And if any of the additional doctors aren’t signed up for
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