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news.The National Cancer Institute (NCI), Microsoft and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) created a prototype to integrate Patient Outcomes Data Service (PODS) with Microsoft's HealthVault personal health records software and Amalga data integration and aggregation software, to enable physicians and hospitals to track oncology patient demographics, diagnoses, treatments and outcomes.
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PODS, a Web-based ‘Lite’ EHRs system, gathers data in a common database with access controls to protect providers’ proprietary data, healthdatamanagement.com reported.
Providers can import data into PODS and run comparative reports against aggregated data, allowing patients to contribute self-entered medical information as well as tracking such factors as daily pain levels, sleep patterns and mood.
Healthdatamanagement.com has quoted NCI director of the Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology Ken Buetow as saying that the idea is to figure out how to facilitate the vast amount of information locked in the health care system right now.
"With the Microsoft-PODS integration, patients can get a Continuity of Care Document imported into their HealthVault PHR, which increases the sharing of data and can help meet meaningful use criteria," Buetow said.