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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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Personal Health Informatics

TL;DR: This chapter introduces the important concept of personal health informatics, encompassing patient engagement, empowerment, activation, health information and decision-making, patient generated health data, the digital self, and the digital divide.
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Mobile Personal Health Systems for Patient Self-management: On Pervasive Information Logging and Sharing within Social Networks

TL;DR: The design of a mobile personal health system for logging information corresponding to the patient status and sharing it within social networks is presented and by utilizing event-driven patterns, the pervasive sharing of the recorded information is enabled, under conditions specified by the mobile user.
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Online dispute resolution in mediating EHR disputes: a case study on the impact of emotional intelligence

TL;DR: Using a phenomenological research methodology simulating doctor–patient disputes mediated with an AI Smart ODR system in place of a human mediator, an association between EI and the propensity for a participant to change their previously asserted claims is found.
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Digital Transformation Challenges for the Implementation of Quality Electronic Medical Records

TL;DR: The authors explore characteristics of quality, interoperable and secure electronic medical records, and provide an overview of the challenges and factors affecting their adoption, implementation, and operation.
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Protection Motivation Theory, Task-Technology Fit and the Adoption of Personal Health Records by Chronic Care Patients: The Role of Educational Interventions

TL;DR: This study combines PMT with IS theory to propose a research model to aid in the understanding of PHR adoption by chronic care patients and outlines a survey-based study to empirically validate the proposed model using structural equation modeling techniques.
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Adverse Drug Events in Ambulatory Care

TL;DR: Improving communication between outpatients and providers may help prevent adverse events related to drugs, and many are preventable or ameliorable.
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The value of health care information exchange and interoperability.

TL;DR: In this paper, the value of electronic health care information exchange and interoperability (HIEI) between providers and independent laboratories, radiology centers, pharmacies, payers, public health departments, and other providers is assessed.
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The Missing Link: Bridging The Patient–Provider Health Information Gap

TL;DR: Personal health records (PHRs) might allow patients and providers to develop new ways of collaborating and provide the basis for broader transformation of the health care system.
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Physicians And Ambulatory Electronic Health Records

TL;DR: Few U.S. physicians use outpatient electronic health records (EHRs), although it appears that most would like to begin, and the key initial policy changes will be those addressing financial incentives and interoperability.
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