The openAirWare Patient CCD Reader can open a CCD for viewing, emailing, printing, and storing.
What is a Continuity of Care Document (CCD)?
The CCD is a global standard for electronically exchanging a patient health summary. The CCD contains a core data set of the most relevant administrative, demographic, and clinical information about your or a family members healthcare. Covering one or more healthcare encounters, it provides a means for one physician, hospital, or other clinical setting to aggregate all of your pertinent data and electronically forward it to other healthcare providers, to support the continuity of care.
Its primary use case is to provide a snapshot in time for a specific patient. These "snapshots" of a patients health data that are useful and possibly lifesaving, if available at the time of a clinical encounter.
Because it is expressed in the standard data interchange language known as XML, a CCD can potentially be created, read and interpreted by any electronic medical record (EMR) or electronic health record (EHR) software application.
What does this mean to you?
The CCD along with openAirWare’s Patient CCD Reader will make it easy for you to share you or family members medical information with Primary Care Providers, Referring Physicians, urgent care, and emergency departments. The CCD can encompass your clinical information facts about your medical history and conditions such as:
* Problems
* Procedures
* Family history
* Social history
* Advance directives
* Alerts
* Medications
* Immunizations
* Vital signs
* Functional stats
* Lab Results
* Plan of care
In short, it provides answers to your doctor’s questions, that they need to know about you and your other healthcare visits.
Due to advancements in technology, security and government mandates; now, more then ever before doctors and clinics are embracing EMR/EHR technologies that have the capability of producing a CCD. Once you have installed the openAirWare Patient CCD Reader, you may notify your healthcare providers that you would prefer receiving your visit information via electronic CCD in XML format.
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