Medical Professionals Can Earn Money by Reporting Unidentifiable Patient Health Information at HealthLat. com
Patient safety monitoring company HealthLat. com announces the expansion of its revenue-sharing, patient safety report program to medical professionals.
Madison, Wisconsin (PRWEB) November 27, 2007
HealthLat. com (www. HealthLat. com), a consumer-driven patient safety monitoring company, has recently expanded its patent-pending HealthLat Patient Safety Report Program to physicians and other health care professionals. The program gathers, analyzes and sells non-identifiable patient health information, and shares the proceeds with its participants.
"Aggregate patient health information is crucial in monitoring patient safety, for example, new side effects of after-market drugs." says Johnson Chen, co-founder of HealthLat. com. "Vioxx and other incidents have shown that the current health care system is not able to effectively provide that kind of information."
HealthLat. com takes a consumer-driven approach to aggregate the information. The program started out recently to gather health experiences directly from patients, and it now expands to health care professionals who have patient data -- but are isolated in many large and small disconnected systems.
To get started, physicians -- as well as nurse practitioners and physician assistants -- register free of charge (http://www. healthlat. com/homeuser/register) in HealthLat. com. Their personal information will be kept private. Physicians add patients under care into their HealthLat accounts to report information. The program uses an auto-generated patient ID in lieu of identifiable information to represent patients.
Simple templates created from clinical guidelines are used to report information. Currently, physicians can report on more than 10,000 types of allergies, diseases, conditions, drugs, medical tests, surgeries, symptoms and signs of their patients.
The program is designed to meet the busy schedules of physicians. Reporting one health experience takes 5-30 seconds. For a physician seeing 500 patients a month, she or he will spend an average of five minutes a day reporting experiences (http://www. healthlat. com/sell) at HealthLat. com.
HealthLat. com now offers a product called "HealthLat Experience Report". The report provides a new kind of effective, highly personalized health information about treatments created from the non-identifiable information reported. Half of the proceeds are shared with program participants, and their revenues continue as long as the information is relevant to others.
"Physicians are integral to consumer-driven patient safety reporting, because they have the data and many patients are still only comfortable at consuming information." says Johnson. "As an independent company, HealthLat empowers physicians (http://www. healthlat. com/Why-should-physicians-join-HealthLat-Patient-Safety-Report-Program) to help patients be more informed, and get additional earnings for doing so."
About HealthLat. com
HealthLat. com is a certified and trusted Web site owned by HealthLat LLC. HealthLat is an independent company and a leader in consumer-driven health care information. For additional information, please visit www. HealthLat. com.
Contact:
Johnson Chen
Jhaochen @ healthlat. com
(608) 395-1388
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