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.About:
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.read more
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Using an inpatient portal to engage families in pediatric hospital care.
TL;DR: Overall, parents were satisfied with the inpatient portal, and it was easy to use, improved care, and gave them access to information that helped them monitor, understand, make decisions, and care for their child.
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Factors affecting usage of a personal health record (PHR) to manage health.
TL;DR: This study evaluated the ability of 56 middle-aged adults and 51 older adults to use a simulated PHR to perform 15 common health management tasks encompassing medication management, review/interpretation of lab/test results, and health maintenance activities and indicated that participants in both age groups experienced significant difficulties in using the PHR.
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The Value of Personal Health Record (PHR) Systems
David C. Kaelber,Eric C. Pan +1 more
TL;DR: This PHR analysis shows that all forms of PHRs have initial net negative value, but Interoperable PHRs provide the most value, followed by third-party PHRs and payer-tethered PHRs also showing positive net value.
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Conditions potentially sensitive to a personal health record (PHR) intervention, a systematic review.
Morgan Price,Morgan Price,Paule Bellwood,Nicole A. Kitson,Iryna Davies,Jens H. Weber,Jens H. Weber,Francis Lau +7 more
TL;DR: Conditions with evidence of benefit when using PHRs tended to be chronic conditions with a feedback loop between monitoring in the PHR and direct behaviours that could be self-managed, although many benefits were measured by self-report through quasi-experimental studies.
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Towards consumer-friendly PHRs: patients' experience with reviewing their health records.
Alla Keselman,Laura Slaughter,Catherine Arnott-Smith,Hyeoneui Kim,Guy Divita,Allen C. Browne,Christopher Tsai,Qing Zeng-Treitler +7 more
TL;DR: A survey of patients' experience with reviewing their health records, in order to identify barriers to optimal record use points to providers' notes, laboratory test results and radiology reports as the most difficult records sections for lay reviewers.
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