healthor

Healthor is a digital health platform designed to help individuals and healthcare providers manage chronic disease and preventive care. The platform emphasizes interoperability, patient empowerment, and data privacy.

Healthor collects data from multiple sources, including electronic medical records, wearable devices, and patient-reported outcomes. It provides secure portals and mobile apps, uses machine learning to generate personalized recommendations and risk assessments, and offers care teams decision-support tools. The system is designed to integrate with health information exchanges and standards such as HL7 FHIR.

The project was initiated in 2021 by a coalition of hospitals, patient advocates, and researchers. A pilot program operated in select clinics in 2022, with wider rollout beginning in 2023. The core platform is available as both proprietary offerings and an open-source reference implementation.

Uses and impact: It supports chronic condition management, medication adherence, and remote monitoring. Early pilots reported improved patient engagement and care coordination; long-term outcomes data are still being studied and results vary by setting.

Reception and criticism: Proponents highlight data portability and patient control, while critics raise concerns about privacy, data ownership, insurer access, and algorithm transparency. Healthor emphasizes consent and security, yet debates continue about access, equity, and commercialization.

See also: electronic health record, patient portal, wearable technology, health data interoperability.