A Potential Passport for Care Coordination

Along with engaging patients and giving them a care plan, Freedman sees Digital Passport to Trust as a way to bring about other regulatory-based changes for providers. “It would allow, by forcing physicians to justify tests and treatment, I think that it would provide higher quality care and potentially decrease costs,” he says.

While those benefits may eventually come, Freedman and Martin are focused now on continuing development of the platform, which they say comes with a HIPAA compliant multi-layered, encrypted security model. The platform will be tested for a one-year clinical trial, using outpatient physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess, and ensuring it can be incorporated into a physician’s workflow.

“We’re going to focus on the hot-bed areas, like diabetes, where we know pay-for-performance is an issue and patient compliance is not so good,” Freedman says. If all goes well, he says, the possibilities for enhancement on the platform are endless.