Patient Ally PHR – We Have Real People to Help You Get Started

Are you a bit frustrated today with how to get started with creating a PHR (personal health record) and confused with some of the procedures you read on the websites?  Some people do just fine but at Patient Ally, we realize that everyone is not at the same level with technology today, but everyone is a patient somewhere.  Office Ally with our “free” patient PHR can help overcome some of these obstacles.  When you want to talk to someone and get started, we have a toll free number with “real people” who can give you a helping hand.

Patient Ally PHR

You can visit the Patient Ally Website and check it out for yourself.   If you are a Blue Shield patient, there is a separate site for you to begin the process and sign on.  You can check prior posts about our agreement with Blue Shield of California for more information.

Blue Shield Member?
Visit our Blue Shield Patient Ally Site.

Blue Shield and Office Ally are offering this easy-to-use, secure, web-based patient health record communication tool that allows providers and members to communicate online. This tool helps eliminate the paperwork and telephone time it typically takes for daily tasks such as scheduling appointments, filling out provider intake forms, requesting refills and more. When Blue Shield members use the tool, they can securely access their medical profile anytime anywhere and engage their provider online. All of this can be accomplished when it’s most convenient for Blue Shield members and their providers.

For Inquiries and feedback, please email us at: info@patientally.com.

Phone: 888-PHR-4ALL

You can find this information under the “contact us” section.  We hope to hear from you soon, we like to talk and be of service.

Office Ally Featured on the Columbian – We Are Adding Jobs

Last week, our president and founder spent a little time speaking with the Columbian about where Office Ally is headed for the future, and this includes bringing jobs into the healthcare IT industry, in Vancouver and in Irvine, California.

Office Ally has created Patient Ally, a patient centric PHR for patients to use and keep track of their healthcare.  Also, recently in the news was the announcement with Blue Shield of California.  All former McKesson members who were using Relay Health are now covered with Patient Ally and have the opportunity to begin not only keeping track of their health records, but also have a highway to communicate securely with their physicians and utilize e-visits.  You can read more about the announcement on the blog and see the letter sent to Blue Shield members in California.  Here is a link to the article from the Columbian and a few excerpts have been included below.

http://www.columbian.com/news/2010/jan/12/office-ally-expanding/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Office Ally is looking for software developers in Irvine, California, so if this is your area of expertise, get in touch.  One item of note is that we are not a publicly traded company and thus can exercise options in a timely and technology opportunistic format. 

“Brian O’Neill says his Vancouver company Office Ally will need more employees and larger quarters as it expands with new electronic medical services this year.

Brian O'Neill

Called Patient Ally, the suite of medical software products includes an electronic billing service for doctors and a patient-to-physician virtual

interface called e-visit. Blue Shield of California announced Monday that it has signed its 3.4 million members up for the service, which relies on medical diagnosing software that relays patient information and symptoms to the doctor. From there, physicians can treat and prescribe without office visits.

The service will not eliminate face-to-face appointments, said O’Neill, 48, chief executive officer and president of Office Ally LLC, which he founded in 1999 in Laguna Beach, Calif.

“But let’s say you have strep throat. Now you can be treated over the Internet,” saving doctor and patient time, and saving money for insurance firms, O’Neill said.

The business could continue to grow exponentially based on two factors: the proposed national health care plan that would add more than 30 million more Americans to the health care rolls, and the fact that many states hope to eliminate paper insurance claims.

“Minnesota passed a law this year that it is illegal to send paper insurance claims in the state,” said O’Neill, who expects other states to follow.”

Stay tuned for more upcoming news as it happens, we appreciate your business and offer real people helping you in our customer service department too.