LifeOnKey™ and its Technology Platform

LifeOnKey™ is a revolutionary Personal Health Management (PHM) platform that allows you, to control your health information in a completely secure, safe and integrated way. At the core of the LifeOnKey™ PHM platform is a proprietary, market-proven technology that delivers a state-of-the-art interoperability system.

What does interoperability mean, and why is it important?

It means: The LifeOnKey™ system is smart.

The LifeOnKey™ "interoperability module" automatically and seamlessly collects all your medical data independent of source and format – and integrates and displays the information through a secure patient information network.

That means LifeOnKey™ has the ability to collect selected information from the various databases of insurance companies, hospitals, doctors’ offices and other health care providers. LifeOnKey™ lets you control and decide what information you want to store--and how. Not only can you build a virtual file for yourself when you need it, you can also save a local file where you need it – your personal computer, PDA or memory stick.

That’s really important for medical centers, physicians, administrators, and for you. Why? Because you are no longer burdened by having to collect the various information from the medical organizations that keep your health information. LifeOnKey™ will configure and fit to all systems.

With over one million LifeOnKey™ members currently using our PHM platform and scores of different information systems being utilized by those members, the most important part of LifeOnKey’s smart-platform is this: it works.

Market-Proven Innovation

The sophisticated technology of LifeOnKey™ “sits” on top of existing health information management systems and data uploaded from peripheral medical devices.

The system provides easy-to-use patient rights-control modules, management tools, tracking of follow-up procedures, and prevention strategies. Most importantly, LifeOnKey™ ensures the privacy of your personal health information.

The business intelligence embedded in LifeOnKey™ will also allow you to view your health status privately and securely, against a larger LifeOnKey population. Imagine being able to compare your treatment or outcomes against a real-time, documented view of people with similar ailments or diagnoses—all real health data aggregated, never individual information.

The Intersection of Technical Security and Consumer Confidence

The LifeOnKey™ network, always securely and easily accessed, is managed on a continuous 24/7 basis empowering you to track and manage your medical condition or health goals. This tracking is based on your auto-populated Personal Health Record and any health information you have uploaded to the system from external medical devices. This allows for integrated management of special health conditions, and relevant health markers such as stress cortisol, blood pressure, cholesterol count, and blood sugar levels. LifeOnKey™ members are able to upload confidential and potentially lifesaving health information and also use the platform to track lifestyle behaviors (diet and exercise) to promote self-care and prevention of other chronic diseases.

LifeOnKey™ Meets the Needs of Consumers

LifeOnKey™ was specifically designed to answer consumer and patient needs (as endorsed by the organizers of Personal Health Conference in Washington, DC, October 11, 2005, which included the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The Markle Foundation):

(1) Individuals should be able to access their health and medical data conveniently and affordably
(2) Individuals should be able to authorize when and with whom their health data are shared
(3) Individuals should be able to designate someone else, such as a loved one, to have access to and exercise control over how their records are shared
(4) Individuals should receive easily understood information about the ways their healthcare data may be shared
(5) Individuals should be able to review which entities have had access to their personal health data (6) Electronic health data exchanges must protect the integrity, security, privacy, and confidentiality of an individual’s information.

LifeOnKey, Inc. is committed to providing the most reliable, innovative technology to its worldwide network of members and partners. With over 20 Centers of Excellence worldwide, LifeOnKey provides leading-edge technological advances combined with ‘real-world’ experience—all in an unrelenting effort to provide you with a secure, patient-centric Personal Health Management platform.

About Us

LifeOnKey, Inc., a venture backed company, has developed a proprietary and innovative platform technology to be the infrastructure for its Internet service for Personal Health Management (PHM) based on a consumer’s health information. LifeOnKey is pairing the information with smart, consumer-friendly tools that will enable people make sound medical decisions and take action to improve their health and/or live symptom-free lives for as long as possible. LifeOnKey™ has over 1 million registered members.

LifeOnKey’s patent-pending technology allows you to access and fully manage your personal health information in an easy, secure and completely confidential way. LifeOnKey™ allows you and those you authorize – such as family members -- to view updated and comprehensive medical information by helping you build a virtual health view of your medical information whenever you need one.

Our platform is built so you have easy access to and control of ALL aspects of your health information: medical information test results, or any health data important to you – and your family’s - wellbeing.

You control what goes into your LifeOnKey™ files.

You authorize who can access the information.

You even control the type of technology to safely store or exchange information: PC, mobile phone, PDAs, memory discs or other devices.

LifeOnKey™ is the only Personal Health Management System that is quick, secure, market-proven and U.S. HIPAA compliant. LifeOnKey™ also offers online medical and health-specific modules, social networking communities, search capabilities and sources of medical and health information. LifeOnKey’s, initial offerings include two niche applications in the United States: (1) women's health (2) health & wellness.

LifeOnKey’s mission is to revolutionize health informatics by building an eHealth patient healthcare platform that places you in the center and allows you to control access to personal health information confidentially, privately and securely.

It’s smart. It’s secure. It’s about time.

With LifeOnKey™ health care information is stored and updated electronically with important privacy safeguards to protect the patient’s confidentially and holds the patient’s links to information using the most advanced security technology available. Whether treatment is planned or unexpected, the patient and those asked to care for him or her, are able to access the patient’s medical information 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Why is this so critical? Accuracy and timeliness of medical information helps to ensure that the care provided to the patient is based on the most recent data. Whether the patient requires care at home or at any health care institution in the country, easy, secure and continuous access to LifeOnKey™ can enhance quality of care and potentially reduce medical errors. Consider that vital information for the patient’s diagnosis and treatment, such as current medication, details of previous operations, test results and allergies, is potentially lifesaving.

How is security of one’s medical information established? State-of-the-art protection and authorization procedures are built-in to LifeOnKey™ to safeguard medical information against breaches of security. Built-in technical codes for privacy and security ensure that only the patient and those involved in his/her care are able to access or update medical information in a form that clearly identifies the patient. The patient is able to choose whether or not to share his or her health information, or make only certain aspects of medical data accessible to people the patient designates. Extenuating circumstances, such as an emergency, may override a security request in the interest of life-saving measures. All privacy, security and confidentiality terms are clearly stated and agreed to by each LifeOnKey™ member.

Benefits

LifeOnKey™ was developed to benefit ALL participants in the healthcare arena—and provides you with the very best, most comprehensive health information management system possible. Patients, physicians, providers, and the public heath community—will benefit from LifeOnKey’s integrated approach.

Here’s how:

For Patients:

• Safe and secure way to compile, view and control all of your health information from a variety of health care providers and sources, including insurance companies, hospitals, doctors, medical labs, as well as from personal monitoring devices like blood glucose meters.
• Access to the personal health information you want through a variety of ways including mobile devices such as cell phones, PDAs and laptops, as well as your home or office computer.
• The ability to store and take your information with you via your cell phone, PDA, or removable storage devices, like jump drives.
• You control the access to your health information and decide who can view it and when, including granting one-time access for your doctor, hospital, or other healthcare provider, such as physicians you consult for a second-opinion.

For Physicians:

• Facilitates medical procedures including diagnosis
• Improves quality of patient care
• Efficiency in time spent per patient
• Medical diagnosis based on accurate medical history
• Option for telemonitoring
• Access to evidence-based research and best practices
• Personal enrichment in promoting the best patient care and professionalism
• Reduction of exposure to malpractice

For Providers in Medical Institutions, Hospitals, and Health Organizations:

• Improvement of quality of medical services
• Medical procedure standardization
• Segmented internal medical guidelines
• Medical services customization
• Medical research and training procedures
• Critical time-saving decision-making tools
• Effective storage of medical information
• Enhancement of provider-patient relationships
• Reduction of exposure to malpractice
• A platform for monitoring medications
• Telemedicine and home care applications
• Improvements in prevention or management of chronic diseases or conditions
• Collaboration with other medical institutions

Public health system:

• Public surveillance of confidentiality and privacy of personal health information
• Improvement in the quality of medical services
• Ability to create a national program for "disease mining"
• Standardization of medical protocols for medical institutions
• Quality of care tools
• Reduction of national medical costs
• Dissemination of public health messages and prevention guidelines
• Enhancement of citizens' confidence in the health system
• Basic asset for conducting national medical research
• Fostering of collaborative relationships for policy making
• Reduction of nationwide malpractice suits
• Telemedicine and home care applications for rural and other locations
• In the long run, creating a healthier society

What makes LifeOnKey™ right for me?

LifeOnKey™ provides you, with the three critical factors consumers say is most important to their personal health information management:

1. Security & Control
2. Accessibility & Flexibility
3. Custom Information

Easy-to-use, reliable and secure, LifeOnKey™ has met the needs of over a million members worldwide and offers a robust patient-centric system.

1) Security & Control.

Is my personal health information secure? Who has control? You have full control of your health information at the highest level of security that is available in the world. You decide what information is gathered and shared—you have complete authority. LifeOnKey never shares your information with any other company, such as an employer, doctor, health insurance company or health maintenance organization.

2) Accessibility & Flexibility.

As a member of LifeOnKey you have full control over what information you choose to compile and share and how this information is viewed and stored. Our service will work with a PDA, laptop, cell-phone, removable storage devices, like USB jump drives, for instance. Available 24/7 the LifeOnKey™ platform is the only fully integrated system that works with ALL the different technology platforms used by medical centers, hospitals, physician practices, health care institutions and insurance companies.

3) Custom Information.

You determine what information is important to you: lab results, your medical history, prescriptions, and even articles related to your specific health concerns and interests. LifeOnKey’s Personal Health Management System is completely personal to your needs and preferences. Every LifeOnKey™ member is unique, and our platform allows you to build and customize your health and wellness profile.

Don’t other Personal Health Management systems provide the same?

No, and for several reasons:

1. Only LifeOnKey™ offers you a secure, flexible and proven system that is also compliant with regulations under HIPAA, federal rules that protect your privacy when it comes to the sharing of your medical and health information.

2. No other company has demonstrated real-world success. LifeOnKey has over a million members and on track to grow to five million in 2008.

3. Only LifeOnKey™ provides a fully integrated system (see interoperability technology) that compiles electronic health information from all of your healthcare providers.

4. LifeOnKey is an acknowledged global leader in Personal Health Management systems and informatics and operates over 20 Centers of Excellence worldwide.

How does the LifeOnKey™ model improve the entire system?

LifeOnKey™ was developed to benefit ALL participants in the healthcare arena—and provide you with the very best, most comprehensive personal health management system possible. Patients, physicians, providers, and the public heath community—will benefit from our integrated approach.

Why is an electronic personal health management important for me to have?

LifeOnKey™ was specifically designed to answer consumer and patient needs (as endorsed by the organizers of Personal Health Conference in Washington, DC, October 11, 2005, which included the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The Markle Foundation):

(1) Individuals should be able to access their health and medical data conveniently and affordably
(2) Individuals should be able to authorize when and with whom their health data are shared
(3) Individuals should be able to designate someone else, such as a loved one, to have access to and exercise control over how their records are shared
(4) Individuals should receive easily understood information about the ways their healthcare data may be shared
(5) Individuals should be able to review which entities have had access to their personal health data
(6) Electronic health data exchanges must protect the integrity, security, privacy, and confidentiality of an individual’s information.

What is HIPAA?

In the USA, the HIPAA Privacy Rule established national standards to protect individuals’ medical records and other personal health information.

What is Interoperability?

In the context of personal health information the term refers to the ability for diverse technological systems and organizations to communicate or inter-operate to collect an individual’s health data (e.g., from electronic data stored by a specific health provider or in a medical device).