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Personal Health Records: Definitions, Benefits, and Strategies for Overcoming Barriers to Adoption

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Personal health record (PHR) systems are more than just static repositories for patient data; they combine data, knowledge, and software tools, which help patients to become active participants in their own care as discussed by the authors.
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This article is published in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.The article was published on 2006-03-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1272 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Health informatics.

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