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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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Assessing the privacy policies in mobile personal health records.

TL;DR: This paper analyzes and assesses a total of 24 free mPHRs for Android and iOS and a questionnaire containing six questions concerning privacy policies was defined to assist developers and stakeholders to evaluate the security and privacy of their mPHR.

Personal Health Records: Beneficial or Burdensome for Patients and Healthcare Providers?

TL;DR: For the PHR to succeed in the US healthcare system, assurance that the information will be protected, useful, and easily accessed is necessary.
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CDA Generation and Integration for Health Information Exchange Based on Cloud Computing System

TL;DR: This paper describes the CDA document generation and integration Open API service based on cloud computing, through which hospitals are enabled to conveniently generate CDA documents without having to purchase proprietary software.
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Role of Health Information Technologies in the Patient-Centered Medical Home

TL;DR: The role of HITs, including electronic health records, web-based patient portals, telemedicine, and patient registries, with a focus on diabetes care, are reviewed, and how these technologies have been engaged in the establishment of the PCMH are discussed.
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Whole-of-society monitoring framework for sugar, salt, and fat consumption and noncommunicable diseases in India.

TL;DR: Evidence is provided to justify a whole‐of‐society (WoS) framework for monitoring the inputs, processes, and behavioral components of the National Programme for Prevention and Control of Cancer, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke (NPCDCS) in India.
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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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