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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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Valorisation of Personal Health Records in Delivering Patient-centric Healthcare Services in a Resource Constrained Setting

TL;DR: This paper gives a comprehensive discussion on the comparative analysis of viability of the deployment of PHRs in both developed and resource constrained settings in providing patient-centric healthcare services.
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Utilization of EHR to Improve Support Person Engagement in Health Care for Patients With Chronic Conditions

TL;DR: This phenomenological qualitative study served as a pilot study to investigate the patient, proxy, and provider lived experiences utilizing patient-facing EHR portals, and four themes emerged highlighting critical benefits and obstacles for patients and support persons interfacing with a patient portal.
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Design for improved workflow

TL;DR: Whether the notion of workflow was formally addressed was identified and examples of how workflow methodology might complement user-centered and participatory design efforts in clinical, public health, and consumer health informatics research were given.
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The Acceptance Factors for Electronic Medical Record System

TL;DR: The result of this paper could be the good reference to the healthcare organizations on how they should implement and operate the EMR system.
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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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Promoting health literacy.

TL;DR: This report reviews some of the extensive literature in health literacy, much of it focused on the intersection of low literacy and the understanding of basic health care information, and describes methods for assessing health literacy as well as methods for assessing the readability of texts.
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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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