ChartSpan said it has developed a patient-based, interoperable consumer technology that can automate paper health records into electronic patient records.
ChartSpan, based in South Carolina, developed an iPhone app that it says converts paper health records into digital form simply through taking a picture of a physical health record, or importing it from an email or fax, with no manual entry. An Android version is coming next month. Then, ChartSpan extracts the data and populates each user’s electronic, personal database.
The company promises the app is secure, using three layers of encryption for all data, both at rest and in flight. No third party can access any patient’s personally identifiable information, according to ChartSpan.
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The app is designed for patients, not physicians, with the intent of easing access to their own medical records.
“Patients have waited for more than a decade for providers to deliver on the promise of ‘interoperability’,” ChartSpan CEO and co-founder Jon-Michial Carter said in a statement. “For a majority of those patients, getting ubiquitous access to their records is a nightmare. One provider wants you to access their patient portal. The next provider wants you to download their tethered EHR app that only works with their proprietary records system. Frankly, most families are managing their healthcare records with manilla folders. Patients needed an easier and simpler way to manage healthcare records.”
An Android version is coming next month.
UPDATE: ChartSpan does not offer and EHR. An earlier version of this story misstated that.