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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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Improvement and Evaluation of the TOPCOP Taxonomy of Patient Portals: Taxonomy-Evaluation-Delphi (TED) Approach

TL;DR: The TOPCOP taxonomy as mentioned in this paper is a taxonomy of patient portals that is used by health information managers to compare and compare patient portals and provide a standardized terminology to describe various aspects of these portals.
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Generierung individueller, bedarfsgerechter Sichten auf dieDaten einer elektronischen Gesundheitsakte

TL;DR: Dazu notwendigen Informationsaustausch kann eine Elektronische Gesundheitsakte (EGA) unterstutzen, indem sie verteilt anfallende and vom Akteneigentumer selbst dokumentierte, gesundheITSrelevante Daten eines Menschen zentral speichert.
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Leader Election and Blockchain Algorithm in Cloud Environment for E-Health

Basem Assiri
TL;DR: The paper proposes an adoptive leader election algorithm (ALEA) that takes into account medical and healthcare specifications and has incorporated the ideas of Primary Leader, Secondary Leader for emergency, leader appointing and multiple tokens to allow parallel updates.
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Design Strategy for Integrated Personal Health Records: Improving the User Experience of Digital Healthcare and Wellbeing

Inês Rodolfo
TL;DR: Outubro de 2017 Prof. Doutor Nuno Manuel Robalo Correia Presidente: Arguente(s): Vogal(ais): Júri: Professor D outor Carlos Alberto Pacheco dos Anjos Duarte.
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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

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