Philips Healthcare is partnering with medical record services provider eHealth Global Technologies to design a way to reduce cancer patient waiting time for appointments by gathering imaging information and other data for on-demand availability at an oncologist's point of care.
Philips will provide advanced imaging, treatment planning, image-guided interventional therapy, home monitoring, and IT products, while eHealth Global's eHealth Access Record Retrieval Service is designed to collect and manage patient information from any source and in any data format.
According to the two companies, the collaboration partly stems from a University of Pennsylvania June 2011 study, which found that 71% of newly diagnosed oncology patients were unable to schedule a first appointment, and 39% of those patients were denied or unable to schedule an appointment due to demand for medical records.
