OnCallData Community Health Portal helps hospital systems, RHIOs access patient's record

OnCallData, whose pioneering electronic-prescribing product was the first electronic prescribing application to launch two-way connectivity with national pharmacy chains, announced this week that it has integrated its systems with ShareStream, a rich media platform that allows organizations to educate and train their workforces through multimedia while safeguarding and controlling access to content during online delivery through digital rights management (DRM), to provide online learning and secure, media-based communications within the OnCallData Community Health Portal.

The OnCallData Community Health Portal provides hospital systems and regional health information organizations (RHIOs) with a single point of access for electronic prescribing, reconciling medication history across multiple providers. This ensures that healthcare providers have access to a complete, up-to-date record of their patient's medication history from a community-wide vantage point at the point-of-care, and are aware of medications prescribed outside of their particular practice or hospital. Additionally, the Community Health Portal provides all of the stakeholders in the prescribing process—including patients, physicians, pharmacists, and payers—with a unified hub for managing prescriptions. The OnCallData Community Health Portal is currently live in multiple RHIOs and hospital systems across the county, including the University Hospital System in Cleveland, Ohio, Lifespan in Providence Rhode Island, and the HIXNY RHIO in Albany, New York, as well as in several thousand private medical practices.

As OnCallData's model evolved from offering its electronic prescribing product to individual practices to providing eRX and medication-reconciliation to entire metropolises and regions, there was a significant demand for an eLearning system that could effectively instruct an entire community about the OnCallData Portal's capabilities in an efficient and secure manner. Through its partnership with ShareStream, which was initially developed in collaboration with Georgetown University, OnCallData now includes a state-of-the art eLearning system that provides users with a single destination for obtaining timely and critical health-related information, as well as communicating the latest information about drug therapies. The ShareStream eLearning module will provide patients, providers, and staff with an online library of digital resources for the Community Health Portal that can be accessed on an anytime/anywhere basis.

"OnCallData's new eLearning module allows our Portal customers to rapidly roll out electronic prescribing combined with medication reconciliation to large numbers of practices without incurring significant additional investment in personnel for training and education. This is transformative for our region-wide projects, where thousands of providers and millions of patients seek to learn about their community's e-prescribing portal, and will go a long way in driving adoption of this potentially life-saving technology," stated Allan Weinstein, OnCallData's CEO and ShareStream's Chairman.