MMRGlobal Awarded Online PHR Patent, Broadening Scope Of Its Health IT Suite

MMRGlobal has secured a U.S. patent for its online personal health record (PHR) system, adding to the Los Angeles-based tech firm’s health IT patent portfolio. The patent, titled "Method and System for Providing Online Records," was awarded October 30, about a year before the start of Meaningful Use rules requiring providers to offer patients Internet access to their health records...

The patent expands MMR’s current health IT portfolio, with several other patents covering various aspects of PHR technology. “MyMedicalRecords” is one of the firm’s main products and it also holds various bio-tech patents.

Because the company’s health IT patents were filed before the HITECH Act and Meaningful Use, Lorsch said, the “patent portfolio makes it difficult for eligible healthcare professionals to fully qualify for incentives under the HITECH Act without licensing from MMR.”...