Patients are the de facto integrators of the healthcare system. The more access they have to their own records, the better the system will become.
That insight led Dr Mohammad Al-Ubaydli to found Patients Know Best (PKB), Europe’s largest Personal Health Record and patient engagement platform. PKB’s purpose is to give every person the ability to access their personal health record, control who can see it and use this information to manage their health and care.
Listen to how he does it on the latest episode of The Purposeful Strategist.
Mohamad trained as a physician at the University of Cambridge; worked as a staff scientist at the National Institutes of Health; and was a management consultant to US hospitals at The Advisory Board Company. Mohammad is the author of seven books, including Personal health records: A guide for clinicians and Streamlining Hospital-Patient Communication: Developing High Impact Patient Portals. In 2012, he was elected an Ashoka Fellow as a social entrepreneur for the contributions he has made to patient care.
PKB integrates data feeds from over 550 health organisations and providers. The system connects information from primary, secondary, social and mental health care providers, to create a single, unified copy of patient data. Everything from appointments and letters to test results, care plans, real-time monitoring data and discharge summaries, as well as the patient’s own data, are all available in one patient record, enabling patients and healthcare professionals to access up-to-date health information anytime, anywhere. In the UK, the platform hosts over 15 million records, registering 100,000+ patients and releasing over 20 million test results every month. PKB integrates with the NHS App to provide a single front door through NHS login for patients to access their information.
Dr Mohammad Al-Ubaydli