[pfletcherhill]

Great questions! So while the way a user orders medical records on PatientBank is the same across all U.S. hospitals, we have 5-6 different ways hospitals can fulfill those orders. These vary from fax or even snail mail to integrations. We actually opened up a lot of our performance data from hospitals here, if you're interested: https://www.patientbank.us/stats/about!

[mertcelebi]

About exporting the data we gather to a new PHR and integrating the new information to patient's existing chart:

There seems to be a couple options!

1) Once we gather your records, we will work on creating a shareable summary of your health history. In that case, the physician can look at that summary via our web portal.

2) In many cases, most EHRs support the upload of PDFs. So, the documents you share can be "integrated" to hospital's EHR. This already happens in large hospital networks when hospitals gather medical records on behalf of patients before their appointments! When hospitals receive the records via fax or mail, they scan the pages to the EHR. Obviously, in the future, easier ways to export data (via EHR integrations) could be extremely valuable to patients and physicians!

[nradov]

In general most providers are never going to read through a bunch of scanned pages exported from another provider's chart. They just don't have enough time.