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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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Which Users Should Be the Focus of Mobile Personal Health Records? Analysis of User Characteristics Influencing Usage of a Tethered Mobile Personal Health Record.

TL;DR: This study showed that focuses on patients with chronic disease and more hospital visits and empowerment functions in a tethered m-PHR would be helpful to pursue the extensive use.
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Consumers' Patient Portal Preferences and Health Literacy: A Survey Using Crowdsourcing

TL;DR: A baseline of usability needs and health literacy that suggests that chronically ill patients have a greater preference for patient portals and higher level of health literacy within the domain of lung cancer is provided.
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Patient-directed Internet-based Medical Image Exchange: Experience from an Initial Multicenter Implementation.

TL;DR: A patient-directed, interoperable, Internet-based image-sharing system is feasible and surpasses the use of CDs with respect to accessibility of imaging exams while generating similar satisfaction withrespect to privacy.
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Patient-Controlled Attribute-Based Encryption for Secure Electronic Health Records System

TL;DR: This paper proposes patient-controlled attribute-based encryption, which enables a patient to control access to the health data and reduces the operational burden for the patient, simultaneously, and demonstrates its efficiency from the patient’s perspective.
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Secure PHR Access Control Scheme for Healthcare Application Clouds

TL;DR: New PHR access control mechanism built in Cloud environment with Bilinear Pairing provides users with a safe and efficient dynamically access PHR information mechanism that can withstand equation attack, external attack reverse attack perfectly in Cloud computing environment.
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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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