Tone Southerland is nominated to the Carequality Advisory Council to help champion Consumers' Rights under HIPAA to Access their Health Information

Tone Southerland is nominated to the Carequality Advisory Council

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We are excited to announce that OneRecord’s Chief Technology Officer, Tone Southerland, has been appointed to the Carequality Advisory Council. 

As a member of the Advisory Council, Tone brings his more than a decade of healthcare interoperability experience to the table, including his current seat on the IHE International Board for Patient Care Coordination. He will have direct input on Carequality’s strategy by providing recommendations on project prioritization and new use case selection. Tone will provide input on in-progress work products at milestones in development, and revise, draft, and propose final deliverables for presentation to the Steering Committee. 

Tone and the rest of the Advisory Council are helping to shape the future of healthcare by solving today’s interoperability challenges in a way that makes the most real-world sense with the fewest implementation barriers and burdens.

Here are some helpful steps to obtain proof of your vaccination history because, ultimately, the best policy when it comes to vaccination cards is to be proactive about your storage and handling of them.

Lost Your Vaccination Card? Here’s What To Do

Already lost your vaccination card? Don’t panic. There are a number of steps you can take in order to restore proof of your vaccination.  Here are some helpful steps to obtain proof of your vaccination history. 

COVID-19 vaccination sites are required to report data within 72 hours in their state’s immunization system so although you may not have physical proof, there are databases that can be accessed in order to confirm your vaccination status. 

The first step that the CDC recommends is to contact your vaccination provider, which means the location where you received your shot. When provided with a valid form of ID, the vaccination providers should be able to look you up in their system and promptly provide you a new vaccination card with the same exact information as before. 

If you are unable to contact your vaccination provider, you can then reach out to your state health department’s immunization information system (IIS) for assistance. The CDC itself does not store vaccination record information. Rather, each state has a website, phone number, or email address that you can access in order to find out how to gain personal vaccination records in your specific state.

For those of you who have not lost your vaccination card, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) still suggests taking a photo of both the front and back of your card in the event that you lose it. Be sure to store these photos in a secure digital app, like OneRecord, as vaccination cards display sensitive personal information that could be used by scammers to perform identity theft or create phony vaccination cards.

Although there are means of obtaining new physical cards if they get lost or damaged, you don’t want to be left scrambling the night before a flight or be denied entry to an event because you do not have proof of your legitimate immunization. The easiest thing for you is to keep a digital record at your fingertips. Plus it's more secure to carry than your paper record. Download OneRecord and you’ll be able to keep your COVID-19 immunization data securely on your phone ready anytime you may need them. Ultimately, the best policy when it comes to vaccination cards is to be proactive about your storage and handling of them.

Keep Your Vaccination Records On Your Phone Here

Already lost your vaccination card? Don’t panic. There are a number of steps you can take in order to restore proof of your vaccination.

OneRecord is now publicly available onathenahealth® Marketplace to support provider organizations using athenaClinicals in meeting 21st Century Cures Act's Information Blocking and Patient Access requirements.

OneRecord Joins athenahealth's Marketplace Program to Empower Consumers with Their Medical Records

NEW YORK, April 14, 2021-- OneRecord, a cross-device health platform with apps on iOS, Android, and web – is now publicly available onathenahealth® Marketplace to support provider organizations using athenaClinicals in meeting 21st Century Cures Act's Information Blocking and Patient Access requirements. As part of the athenahealth® Marketplace (marketplace.athenahealth.com), OneRecord gains national access and visibility to athenahealth's growing network of 160,000+ healthcare providers. 

This is a well awaited addition to OneRecord's long list of connected electronic health records systems (EHRs) in both inpatient and ambulatory markets.OneRecord is currently live with Epic, Cerner, Allscripts, Meditech, NextGen, Medhost, CPSI, eCW, Medhost, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Every new EHR vendor added to the OneRecord Network plays an integral role in fulfilling the vision for all citizens to be able to access their medical records - right from their fingertips. 

OneRecord's CEO and Co-Founder Jennifer Blumenthal remarks that "our team has been building a best in class app that consumers love to use and it shows. It's an honor to be represented on athenahealth® Marketplace and to be the second app in our category, Personal Health Records, chosen alongside Apple's Health App to empower consumers with their medical records from athena providers."

Find OneRecord on the athenahealth Marketplace here.

OneRecord is available on the VA.gov App Store, the Apple App Store (supporting iPhones running iOS 12.4+), and Google Play (for devices running Android 9+). Or, access your full health history on OneRecord.com with the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, Edge, or Safari.

Wondering what HIPAA means and what it does?  We’re here to break down the four major protections that HIPAA is designed to provide for you - in words we can all understand.

What is HIPAA? Here's a simplified summary for you.

Unless you work in close proximity to the healthcare industry you may have only heard about HIPAA in hospital TV shows or at your annual doctor’s visit. HIPAA, or the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, is a law in the United States designed to protect patients and their health information as our healthcare systems continue to modernize. There are four major protections that HIPAA is designed to provide and we’re here to quickly break them down for you.

As its Latin root, port, implies, the portability of insurance refers to carrying insurance from one place to another, or from one person to another. Basically what this means is that health insurance is set up in a way so that if there is a change in your employment, home address, family status, or health status it will have the least possible negative impact on your insurance coverage as it transfers. This part of the law makes it easier for people who have group insurance coverage to remain covered when they change jobs or add family members to the coverage. More people are able to "carry" the coverage in the case of marriage, childbirth, adoption, or other family status changes.

Protection and Privacy of Healthcare Information

If you have heard about HIPAA protections before, you most likely heard it as it relates to privacy. This protection is designed to keep your private health information, well, private. This ensures that your healthcare providers are not disclosing your health information without your knowledge or consent. This protection is commonly referred to as the HIPAA Privacy Rule.

Standardization and Efficiency in Healthcare Data

As the world modernizes, the medical world does too. HIPAA was created primarily to adjust to the quick-changing landscape of how records are kept, shared, and used. As with most records and important documents, we have seen a shift from physical, hard copies to records being stored securely online. The HIPAA related legislation gives guidance to the proper storage and sharing of health information. If you want a safe and easy way to organize, manage, and share your medical records, download OneRecord to access all your medical records - ready whenever you may need them. 

This protection establishes a system or process for how violations of HIPAA are dealt with and prevented. Systems are set up within HIPAA as a means of keeping the ecosystem of the healthcare world in good working order to keep consumers like you protected.

HIPAA is designed to protect you, your health information, and your health insurance coverage. When it comes to these factors it’s important to know what protections you have in order to have confidence navigating the healthcare system. The more you know about how the healthcare system works, the more it can work for you.  Check out our other blogs for more helpful tips and tricks.

So what is HIPAA? Here's a simplified summary for you.

Wondering what HIPAA means and what it does?  We’re here to quickly break down the four major protections that HIPAA is designed to provide for you - in words we can all understand.

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