Personal Health Record Use by Adolescents
John D. Halamka, MedCity News
“In response to many questions about PHR use by adolescents, I asked Fabienne Bourgeois, the expert at Children’s Hospital Boston, to write this guest blog post –
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Patients Like Online Health Records Access, Study Says
Ken Terry, InformationWeek
“When patients at the VA Medical Center in Portland, Ore., were given access to key parts of their electronic health records such as visit notes, lab results and discharge summaries, they believed that the ability to view their records helped them in many ways.
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Patient Experiences With Full Electronic Access to Health Records and Clinical Notes Through the My HealtheVet Personal Health Record Pilot: Qualitative Study
Woods SS et al, J. Med. Internet Res., 15(3)
BACKGROUND:
Full sharing of the electronic health record with patients has been identified as an important opportunity to engage patients in their health and health care. The My HealtheVet Pilot, the initial personal health record of the US Department of Veterans Affairs, allowed patients and their delegates to view and download content in their electronic health record, including clinical notes, laboratory tests, and imaging reports.
OBJECTIVE:
A qualitative study with purposeful sampling sought to examine patients’ views and experiences with reading their health records, including their clinical notes, online.
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Guide exults virtues of patient access to GP records
Practice Business
“A guide to personal health records (PHRs) released by the the Patient Information Forum (PiF) has highlighted the challenges that practices face in reaching the government’s target of giving every patient access to their GP records by 2015.
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ONC: Access to personal health information getting easier, barriers remain
Luke Gale, CMIO
“An informed patient is a healthy patient. Having access to personal health information (PHI) helps patients manage their health better, make informed decisions, improve their likelihood of positive outcomes and contributes to lowering system-wide healthcare costs.
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VA’s innovative personal health record program finds private sector takers
Arundhati Parmar, MedCity News
“Sure the Internet had its roots with U.S. military researchers. But it’s not often that innovative ideas come from the government.
An exception to that in the healthcare industry appears to be the Blue Button program, and how the private sector is embracing it.
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One Patient’s View of the Optimal Personal Health Record
William Hersh, Informatics Professor
“In teaching current and future informatics professionals, I often speak about the Internet-savvy baby boomers who will interact more with the healthcare system as they get older, which will likely usher in the era of patient-centered informatics more than anything heretofore.
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Electronic health record goes personal world-wide
Li YC et al, Yearbook of Medical Informatics, 2009(1)
OBJECTIVE
Increasing patient demand for convenient access to their own healthcare data has led to more personal use of the Electronic Health Record (EHR). With “consumer empowerment” being an important issue of EHR, we are seeing a more “patient-centric” approach of EHR from countries around the world. Researchers have reported on issues in EHR sharing including concerns on privacy and security, consumer empowerment, competition among providers, and content standards. This study attempts to analyze prior research and to synthesize comprehensive, empirically-based conceptual models of EHR for personal use.
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Lessons learned from usability testing of the VA’s personal health record
Haggstrom DA et al, J Am Med Inform Assoc, 18 Suppl 1
In order to create user-centered design information to guide the development of personal health records (PHRs), 24 patients participated in usability assessments of VA’s MyHealtheVet program. Observational videos and efficiency measures were collected among users performing four PHR scenarios: registration and log-in, prescription refill, tracking health, and searching for health information. Twenty-five percent of users successfully completed registration. Individuals preferred prescription numbers over names, sometimes due to privacy concerns.
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Docs’ Top 3 PHR Fears
Gienna Shaw, HealthLeaders Media
“Healthcare organizations are working to encourage patients to get engaged in their healthcare data, in part by making Personal Health Records more user-friendly.
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New technology allows patients to share their medical images via the internet
Rosa Lin, Medill Reports
“Frank has been in a car accident away from home. He’s flown to a trauma center from another facility, and surgeons are working against the clock to keep him alive. They want to perform a crucial operation, but they need medical images from his Chicago doctors.
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Analysis of the definition and utility of personal health records using q methodology
Kim J, Bates DW. J Med Internet Res, 13(4)
BACKGROUND
Personal health records (PHRs) remain a relatively new technology and concept in practice even though they have been discussed in the literature for more than 50 years. There is no consensus on the definition of a PHR or PHR system even within the professional societies of health information technology.
OBJECTIVE
Our objective was to analyze and classify the opinions of health information professionals regarding the definitions of the PHR.
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PHRs – A Difficult Pill to Digest?
Priya Ramachandran, EMR Thoughts
“A report from Manhattan Research earlier this month had some interesting statistics on consumer access to electronic medical records. According to the report, 56 million Americans accessed the patient records available from their medical providers’ EMRs, and another 41 million said they were interested in viewing their medical records online.
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Blue Button for All Americans Contest Winner Announced–So What?
Jim Speros, VAntage Point
“Here’s what. A year ago VA was the first health plan in the country to launch a Blue Button-enabled Personal Health Record (PHR) so Veterans could keep track of their own health data on My HealtheVet and download it any time they want.
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How To Fix The Personal Health Record Mess
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare
“How many patients have taken on the project of digitizing their personal health records? My guess is not many.
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JAMIA: How varied is PHR deployment in healthcare orgs?
CMIO
“Future policy activities, such as requirement specifications for the latter stages of meaningful use, should be leveraged as an opportunity to encourage standardization of functionality and broad deployment of personal health records (PHRs), according to an article published online Sept. 7 in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
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Policies for patient access to clinical data via PHRs: current state and recommendations
Collins SA et al, J Am Med Inform Assoc, 2011
Objective
Healthcare delivery organizations are increasingly using online personal health records (PHRs) to provide patients with direct access to their clinical information; however, there may be a lack of consistency in the data made available. We aimed to understand the general use and functionality of PHRs and the organizational policies and decision-making structures for making data available to patients.
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HHS aims to improve patients’ access to electronic records
Kelly Kennedy, USA TODAY
“Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius plans to announce today rules making it easier for patients to see, use and add information to their personal electronic health records.
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Personal Health Records at the Crossroads
Jeff Byers, CMIO
“In an integrated healthcare world, a personal health record (PHR) provides a secure, patient-accessible destination for clinicians to deliver information to patients from an EHR or EMR.
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Japan’s RFID-enabled PHR device
Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“Japananese company Asahi Kasei has developed a portable device that gives users access to their health records from a computer or smartphone by connecting to these devices through short range, contactless RFID, according to a report in TechCrunch.
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