What is MyOnlineHealth? We are a new, innovative way of keeping your personal health information online in a highly secure environment. The service also provides you with secure communication with your doctor or other healthcare provider by e-mail. Eastern Maine Healthcare and its member hospitals are providing this service in 2002, free to consumers.

How is MyOnlineHealth different from how my medical records are now being kept? MyOnlineHealth is truly a patient-based record. Today, what patients often have are multiple records at multiple sites (different hospitals, doctors offices, clinics, dental offices, etc.) which all contain similar information and possibly some information that the other records don't contain. MyOnlineHealth allows you to keep a secure "journal" of your own health records over a long period of time rather than forcing you to remember occurrences of care (like when your last tetanus booster shot was.) Also, by allowing your healthcare providers to view and add information directly into your personal health record, they will likely have more information than they previously had, which should lead to a better partnership between you and your provider in managing your healthcare effectively.

Accessibility is also very different. Because MyOnlineHealth is an Internet-based resource, your records are available to you anywhere you have an Internet connection, any time of day, in any time-zone!

I'm concerned about my health information being online. How safe is it? MyOnlineHealth will be using the highest level of security encryption currently available. Banking institutions currently use this same level of encryption in managing and transferring funds around the world. For more information on our security, click here to view the IQHealth Security policy.