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OneRecord is awarded Silver in the Mobile Digital Health Resources - Mobile Application category. And OneRecord takes the top prize of gold in the Web-based Digital Health - Portal (Other / Miscellaneous) category of the Fall 2021 Digital Health Awards!

OneRecord Honored With Two Fall 2021 Digital Health Awards

The Digital Health Awards, a program organized by the Health Information Resource Center (HIRC), and an extension of HIRC’s National Health Information Awards, has recognized OneRecord with two awards.  

OneRecord’s Digital Health Consolidation Platform on the web was honored with Gold in the Web-based Digital Health Portal category.

And OneRecord’s Mobile Application was honored with a Silver Mobile Digital in the Health Resources Mobile Application category. 

The goal of the Digital Health Award is to recognize high-quality digital health resources for consumers and health professionals. Entries in the Fall 2021 Digital Health Awards were evaluated by a distinguished panel of judges. Each judge evaluated entries for content and design/creativity/user experience. 

OneRecord Wins Two Fall 2021 Digital Health Awards

OneRecord takes the top prize of gold in the Web-based Digital Health - Portal category and is awarded Silver in the Mobile Digital Health Resources - Mobile Application category of the Fall 2021 Digital Health Awards!

OneRecord unveils the new, powerful OneRecord API, built to provide healthcare developers and organizations a streamlined solution to access consented patient healthcare data from Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and Payers’ claims data, among a variety of other sources.

OneRecord Introduces OneRecord API

OneRecord’s New Offering Brings Health Organizations the Solutions They Need in a Powerful API

NEW YORK -- October, 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- OneRecord, a digital health company focused on bringing patients access to their personal health data, unveils the new, powerful OneRecord API, built to provide healthcare developers and organizations a streamlined solution to access consented patient healthcare data from Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and Payers’ claims data, among a variety of other sources. 

OneRecord API is designed “by developers, for developers” to seamlessly access patients’ medical data and claims data via the latest technology to accelerate advancements in patient-centered care, including meeting the requirements of the 21st Century Cures Act’s Interoperability and Patient Access Final Rule. With a simple way to access healthcare data ​​consented by the patient, OneRecord API enriches partner workflows with on-demand access to their users’ data, replacing traditional record retrieval processes which are costly and typically take weeks or months.

OneRecord API emerges in response to countless inquiries from public and private sector healthcare stakeholders for a patient-meditated FHIR solution to gain better access to healthcare data.​​ OneRecord API is now ready to empower access to electronic health records without performing complex integrations - and enterprises can tap into it today for many use cases: 

CROs and clinical research teams can reduce significant costs tied to manually entering and checking data while screening participants to verify their eligibility for a clinical trial.

Health plans can better assess risk and tailor interventions by allowing members to share their longitudinal medical records and prior claims data. 

Digital health developers, insurance companies, clinical researchers, and others can now deliver better outcomes and engagement faster with on-demand access to their users’ medical data. 

Further, OneRecord’s straightforward solution enables developers to build patient-facing tools that can exchange health data between their platforms and the leading EHRs, including: Epic, Cerner, Allscripts, athenahealth, Meditech, NextGen, Medhost, CPSI/Evident, eClinicalworks, Medhost, and more, covering over 80% of the inpatient and ambulatory provider market for access to data. 

“Times are changing. We’re living in an API-first world with pressure to bring ubiquitous interoperability to healthcare. OneRecord’s Developer API is the solution,” said Jennifer Blumenthal, OneRecord’s co-founder and CEO. “We’re on a mission at OneRecord to get as many people connected to their data as possible and see a boom in the quality of healthcare. Helping companies provide their patients, members, and participants with access to their data instantly fast tracks our vision. Many companies are solving for consumers' health circumstances, OneRecord has the opportunity to support all those cases - putting a lifetime of care in a single OneRecord.”

OneRecord is ready to partner with organizations and companies to seamlessly power the solutions of tomorrow, today.  If you’d like to learn more or discuss your use case, reach out to hello@onerecord.com or visit OneRecord.com/Developers.

OneRecord Introduces OneRecord API to Enable Medical Record Interoperability Across Healthcare

OneRecord is awarded Silver in the 2021 DRIVENxDESIGN New York Design Award 2021 program.  The company was given its award in the Digital Health Category for making health information and medical services more accessible to all. 

OneRecord Awarded 2021 DRIVENxDESIGN New York Design Award

OneRecord, a digital health company, with apps on iOS, Android, and web has been awarded Silver in the New York Design Awards 2021. OneRecord is recognized in the Digital Health category for making health information and medical services more accessible to all. 

The  DRIVENxDESIGN awards are judged by a global ​​jury formed by the design leaders of the Design Exec Club. This jury made their selections based on design creativity, diversity, and courage. OneRecord is included amongst other top projects in the Digital Health category including Samsung’s Clio, My Heart Lab, and My Lung Health.  

Head of Product, Janete Perez says, “Simplifying record retrieval from any medical source is hugely complex, but to our users, it should feel effortless. We’re thrilled that our user-centered design approach is endorsed with this award.”

OneRecord's user-centered design approach is recognized with this global award.

OneRecord's Jennifer Blumenthal joined AWS's Sandy Carter to speak with John Furrier at the AWS Health Summit 2021. In the interview Jennifer speaks about using AWS, APIs, and the future of interoperability for patients and health organizations. Watch the full interview here:

OneRecord CEO Jennifer Blumenthal Interviewed At AWS Health Summit

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OneRecord's Jennifer Blumenthal joined AWS's Sandy Carter to speak with John Furrier at the AWS Health Summit 2021. In the interview, Jennifer speaks about using AWS, health care and health plan APIs, and the future of interoperability for patients and health organizations. Watch the full interview here:

Sandy Carter, AWS & Jennifer Blumenthal, OneRecord | AWS Summit DC 2021

Watch OneRecord's Jennifer Blumenthal and AWS's Sandy Carter speak about the future of healthcare with John Furrier on theCube!

Watch OneRecord's Jennifer Blumenthal and AWS's Sandy Carter speak with John Furrier on theCube!

What is Telehealth and is it the future?  We think so! Patients will be more inclined in the future to receive their check-ups from the comfort of their homes for many reasons.  Read on!

Is Telehealth the Future of Healthcare?

In a previous article, we discussed some of the aspects of the healthcare industry which are likely to grow in the coming years. From monitoring patient vitals with artificial intelligence, to the gradual emphasis of patient-centric care, it is obvious that technology will play an enormous role in the advancement of health management. Chief among the newest innovations to be jump-started by the COVID-19 pandemic is telehealth and telemedicine, which introduces the virtual approach to providers across the globe. Keep reading to learn how patients will be more inclined in the future to receive their check-ups from the comfort of their homes!

An emerging technology which cemented itself in the healthcare realm for good after the coronavirus lockdowns of 2020, telehealth is the practice of organizing virtual visits between doctors and patients. The similar term telemedicine usually refers to just remote clinical services, while telehealth is a broader word for receiving any healthcare virtually.

The telehealth setup was particularly useful during the pandemic, when those infected by COVID-19 were advised not to leave their homes. Hopping on a video call much like a Zoom meeting became not only beneficial to keep the spread of the virus at bay, but necessary as more people came down with the disease’s symptoms.

By using special telehealth software, providers are able to speak with, diagnose, treat, and prescribe medications digitally to the patient. While this was useful for lockdown situations, healthcare professionals quickly realized the myriad of other benefits telemedicine provided, including cutting on commute costs, accurately tracking patients at home, saving time, and perhaps most importantly creating an accessible and convenient means for receiving healthcare. As it turns out, patients are more likely to give their health the attention it deserves when there are fewer roadblocks standing in the way of a trip to the doctor’s office.

Telehealth eliminates the need for sick or chronically ill patients to worry about their appointments, drive out to a clinic, and wait to see a doctor. Instead, emphasis is placed on the patient-doctor relationship and clear communication is promoted. Where testing and physical examination are needed, many new digital health applications and personal medical devices are already stepping in to fill in the gaps. In time, we can expect the majority of healthcare visits to occur virtually, further increasing the accessibility of proper health management!

The rise of telehealth and telemedicine aligns well with the direction of healthcare in the twenty-first century. As technology becomes more engrossed in managing patient health, the need for user control also becomes an important issue. Patients should have the right to understand their healthcare options and see their entire health history with minimal interference—if you can order takeout directly to your doorstep within minutes, you should also be able to schedule health visits with just a few button presses!

The days of waiting rooms—where patients are tempted to feel like nothing more than a number—are fading. Healthcare needs to become more personalized around the patient’s experience, and telehealth is the next step to achieve that.

Stay On Top of Your Medical History With OneRecord

Whether you anticipate using telehealth every day or still prefer scheduling those in-person visits with your doctor, it is important to take advantage of managing your own health from every angle. With the OneRecord app, you can easily connect to all of your providers and download your medical information into a single, easy-to-access place. OneRecord makes it easy to keep track of your well-being while you make informed decisions on your healthcare journey. For all your health information in one place, OneRecord has you covered.

Why Telehealth is the Future of Healthcare

There are many reasons Telehealth is here to stay - reason that pertain to you as a patient. Learn how you can prepare here!

OneRecord has been awarded a Fast Company Innovation by Design Award and is listed amongst an impressive list of projects and companies within all aspects of healthcare - from at-home clinical research technology to wearable trackers, to hospital healing gardens, to birth control information toolkits, and so much in-between.

OneRecord Named As Honoree Of Fast Company’s 2021 Innovation by Design Awards

Today OneRecord was announced as an honoree of Fast Company’s 2021 Innovation by Design Awards in the Health category.  The Health category comprises of projects and companies with the most important and impactful healthcare designs of 2021.  

OneRecord is included amongst an impressive list of projects and companies within all aspects of healthcare - from at-home clinical research technology, to wearable trackers, to hospital healing gardens, to birth control information toolkits, and so much in-between.  

At OneRecord, we have a user-centered design approach that puts the users' needs as the primary focus. Simplifying record retrieval from any medical source is hugely complex, but to any user it should not feel that way - and we achieve that with a constantly evolving UI, directly through data insights and user feedback.

Check out the full list of Fast Company’s 2021 Innovation by Design Awards Honorees in the Health category here.

OneRecord is included amongst an impressive list of projects and companies within all aspects of healthcare - from at-home clinical research technology, to wearable trackers, to hospital healing gardens, to birth control information toolkits, and so much in-between.

Learn What FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) and SMART (Substitutable Medical Applications and Reusable Technologies) Are and How They Change the Standard of Healthcare in the United States of America

What Is FHIR and SMART?

Just ask us here at OneRecord—there’s a lot that goes into designing a digital medical records app! Aside from the actual building and coding that goes on behind the scenes, we need to consider many other aspects such as the user interface, graphics, and accessibility. Not the least of the challenges many healthcare app designers face involves the interoperability of their creation with the many electronic health record (EHR) systems on the market. Read on to learn how recent innovations are standardizing these apps to bring medical record access to more people than ever before!

If either of these acronyms are unfamiliar to you, then don’t worry! FHIR, or “Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources,” was created as a coding standard when it comes to developers working on new healthcare applications. Doubling as an application programming interface (API), FHIR dictates how an EHR should store health data and the format for saving that information. With many EHR vendors utilizing this same method, third-party health applications (like Apple Health or OneRecord) are able to interact with that medical data without worrying about the differences in coding structure between different electronic health records.

SMART, on the other hand, stands for “Substitutable Medical Applications and Reusable Technologies.” While FHIR strives to make health data look the same across most EHRs so health applications can gain access, SMART is responsible for launching those programs within the EHRs and maintaining the security of the information being shared. In essence, SMART is what allows third-party health apps to exchange data from FHIR interfaces in the first place. These two sets of standards often work together, so companies will often describe their applications as “SMART on FHIR,” meaning their product was designed around these rulesets.

How Do These Standards Influence Healthcare’s Future?

The creation of FHIR and SMART are prime examples of the interoperability push spurred by the HITECH Act, which focuses on making healthcare technology able to communicate more effectively and simply with providers and patients alike. As technology becomes more involved in the healthcare system, upholding a standard for developers to follow means a greater number of compatible EHRs for health apps to talk to…and less headaches along the way!

For instance, the well-known Apple Health App currently has plans to introduce a new feature which allows patients to select specific health data recorded by their device and opt to share it with their doctor. A provider can then check on that data whenever necessary to keep up to date on that patient’s daily health and improve the monitoring picture. But this integration was made much more feasible because the Apple Health App was originally designed around FHIR and SMART. That means new features like this are easily compatible with most EHRs already out there—no need to tailor the code to specific vendors!

With more apps being developed under these mutual conditions, healthcare will gradually become more accessible to all users and providers across the digital landscape. In the future, the hurdles caused by compatibility issues between applications and EHRs might disappear altogether!

Keeping the user experience at the forefront of our mission, our team designed the OneRecord app around FHIR and SMART from the get-go, which allows it to work alongside numerous EHRs already in use by your providers and clinics. Accessing your own health information should never be a hassle, which is why the OneRecord app can also be used across multiple smart device brands and platforms, unlike the Apple Health App. Take advantage of healthcare innovation and get all your medical records in one place today!

What Will the Standard for Medical Record Apps Look Like in the Future?

Ever wondered what innovations are going on within digital medical records in 2021?  Well we've got you covered, read on!