Habersham Medical Center (HMC) announced that it will engage PocketHealth to help make it much easier for the hospital’s 80,000 patients to access, share and store their medical imaging and reports securely on any device, enabling them to be more informed and active in their own healthcare journeys.
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Patients will no longer need to travel to the healthcare facility to collect a CD-ROM of their records and transport it to their next appointment or hope that their critical health information makes it safely to their primary care physician. With PocketHealth, HMC’s patients will be able to actively engage in their own healthcare journey by accessing and sharing their imaging reports with their physicians, caregivers, or family members from any device, anywhere in the world.
Physicians and other healthcare professionals who share and receive diagnostic images with Habersham will be able to work within the medical center’s existing infrastructure and won’t need to worry about additional software or account setup. They will be able to view patient imaging instantly in full diagnostic quality or import those images into their local PACS for diagnosis.
“We are very excited to make the healthcare experience much easier than it has been for patients at Habersham Medical Center, and in implementing PocketHealth at our hospital, we are equipping patients to be participants in their own medical journey,” said Tyler Williams, President, and CEO of Habersham Medical Center. “Until now, when medical imaging and reports were shared it required our patients to make unnecessary trips to the site.
PocketHealth equips healthcare providers with the most efficient and effective way to share medical imaging while bringing patients into the center of the process, fueling better outcomes through direct access to diagnostic imaging and reports. Patients can now request all of their imaging records from HMC on the PocketHealth website and gain better insights into their reports with PocketHealth’s Report Reader functionality, which breaks down and defines complex medical terms found within radiology reports.