The current state of eHealth is somewhat analogous to the early days of the Internet, when users were restricted to retrieving basic information rather than interacting with each other through for example social media. Most healthcare information currently still resides in hard-to-access silos (a.k.a. paper documents in filing cabinets) and most business practices are often antiquated.

Health XCEL is adapting the current innovations of the Internet to modernize these backward practices and apply them to the eHealth space. Just as electronic document centers decrease costs and increase available office space through a convergence of functionalities, our product, GlobalHealth unifies data protocols and tools and facilitates communication.

Health XCEL’s flagship product, GlobalHealth, is a centralized, cloud-based software platform that lets eHealth vendors develop, test and deploy secure, scalable and interoperable eHealth applications. This platform provides hospitals, healthcare professionals and insurance companies with the tools to manage sensitive information and enables them to communicate seamlessly. Most importantly it will connect patients to their providers by allowing them to view and manage their own healthcare records.

GlobalHealth solves the most significant problem facing eHealth today: interoperability. This is accomplished by centralizing the solution, and using existing medical standards for sharing records. Interoperability is the cornerstone of this new model of Healthcare as a Service (HeCaaS). Built on the widely adopted Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) models, we let providers choose what applications they wish to subscribe to from a variety of available services.

The most important eHealth application Health XCEL provides is an advanced Electronic Health Record (EHR) solution that allows institutional, professional and patient stakeholders the ability to share and review sensitive patient information and communicate seamlessly and securely through the Internet. Billing and scheduling functionality will also be integrated with the EHR.

GlobalHealth:

• Shifts the focus from provider to patient; giving patients greater control of their own well being.
• Shifts data management away from providers and onto our secure Health Information Exchanges (HIE)
• Provides eHealth vendors with a full lifecycle, software platform to develop eHealth applications on

The overall result is better service rendered to the patient. Patients and physicians will have access to health records when and where they need them. The patient controls the flow of information. Ultimately, the healthcare related risks for both patients and healthcare professionals are reduced through improved communication and access to important healthcare related data, thereby drastically reducing the cost of litigation or reporting errors.

Privacy

Privacy is a major concern as it is the subject of intense government regulation. The HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act) Privacy Rule provides federal protections for personal health information held by covered entities and gives patients an array of rights with respect to that information.

EHRs will actually enhance the privacy of individual patients. There are two major reasons for this. The first is that new technologies provide a tremendous array of mechanisms to protect privacy. The second is that the existing alternative, paper records are highly fallible when it comes to protecting privacy. Along with avoiding dangerous medical mistakes, reducing costs, and improving care, the computerization of health records will improve the privacy and security of health information. The EHR, when maintained according to the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules, actually offers more safeguards than the paper record.