Lush Group qualifies for final phase of national Move Health Data Forward Challenge

CREATED BY the Lush Group, HealthyMePHR, an app that lets users manage personal health care information, has been selected as a phase 2 winner of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Move Health Data Forward Challenge.
CREATED BY the Lush Group, HealthyMePHR, an app that lets users manage personal health care information, has been selected as a phase 2 winner of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Move Health Data Forward Challenge.

JAMESTOWN – The HealthyMePHR system, an app that lets users manage personal health care information, has been selected as a phase 2 winner of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Move Health Data Forward Challenge.

Created by the Lush Group, HealthyMePHR allows patients to control who can access their health data, making it easier for them to share data with their physicians, family members or other caregivers.

The challenge, which has three phases, narrows the winners and increases the award at each level.

The Lush Group’s HealthyMePHR now moves on to the third phase of the challenge, and will compete to win $50,000.

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It previously won $5,000, and, along with four other finalists from around the country, won $20,000 in this latest phase of the competition.

In the first phase of the challenge, the Lush Group had to explain how its solution would help with the flow of health information. In the second, it had to demonstrate a way to achieve those goals by allowing for the safe and secure exchange of consumer or provider health records.

Third-phase winners will be selected based on their ability to implement their solution through the development of a mobile or web-based application.

“In most industries, consumers can access and control their own information,” Nancy Lush, Lush Group president, said in a statement. “Patients, quite rightly, expect the same from the medical community.”

She said concerns about security, privacy and data interoperability have “long impeded the efficient exchanging of clinical health data, but we believe we are finally at an inflection point … HealthyMePHR will be at the forefront of a new class of solutions dedicated to improving patient engagement and well-being.”

Through these technologies, Lush said patients and physicians will benefit through lower health care costs, less administrative effort and improved health.

“There are many worthy competitors in this challenge,” Lush said. “We are honored to be among them, working to improve health and wellness.”

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