BOSTON – Children’s Hospital Boston has launched a partnership to enable patients to collect health data from two major sites of care into a single personally controlled health record (PCHR).

The partnership will allow patients in Children’s ambulatory programs and the primary care unit at the Pediatric Physicians’ Organization at Children’s (PPOC) to aggregate clinical data from sessions at both locations. Officials say this is one of the first instances where data is sent to one record from two different lcations.

“We see this as a major step forward in the advancement of the ultimate goal of PCHRs and ongoing efforts to create data liquidity for patients and providers,” said Daniel Nigrin, MD, chief information officer at Children’s. “This will exemplify a revolutionary new model for health information exchange and present combined health data to patients in a way that is easily accessible and manageable.”

Patients at Children’s Hospital who receive treatment in the ambulatory care department can view their PHCR by using the hospital’s patient portal, MyChildren’s, which was launched earlier this year.
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