o Do you want to feel more in control of your health and your personal health information?
o Do you have a health issue?
o Are you caring for an elderly parent?
o Are you changing doctors?
o Do you need to find the results of a medical test or a complete and current list of your medications?
Personal health records may be able to give you a sense of empowerment that you did not have before.
PATIENT PORTALS AND PERSONAL HEALTH RECORDS
Communications: Relationships between patient and practitioner
Connections: Multiple providers over a lifetime
Convenience: Make appointments, RX refills, view labs, etc.
Chronic conditions: Trends/prevention/early action
Control: Empowering the patient
Communications: Relationships between patient and practitioner
Connections: Multiple providers over a lifetime
Convenience: Make appointments, RX refills, view labs, etc.
Chronic conditions: Trends/prevention/early action
Control: Empowering the patient
Electronic Health Record:
An electronic record of health information on an individual that conforms to nationally recognized standards and that can be created, managed, and consulted by authorized clinicians and staff across more than one healthcare organization.
Electronic Medical Record:
An electronic record: record of health information on an individual that can be created, managed, and consulted by authorized clinicians and staff within one healthcare organization
Personal Health Record:
An electronic record of health information on an individual that conforms to nationally recognized standards and that can be drawn from multiple sources while being managed, shared, and controlled by the individual.
An electronic record of health information on an individual that conforms to nationally recognized standards and that can be created, managed, and consulted by authorized clinicians and staff across more than one healthcare organization.
Electronic Medical Record:
An electronic record: record of health information on an individual that can be created, managed, and consulted by authorized clinicians and staff within one healthcare organization
Personal Health Record:
An electronic record of health information on an individual that conforms to nationally recognized standards and that can be drawn from multiple sources while being managed, shared, and controlled by the individual.
EHRs allow higher quality, better coordinated, less costly, more efficient, timely, and patient-centered care. EHRs not only improve quality of individual lives, but allow better management of population health, better health outcomes and greater accountability. Large volumes of data can be made available to a provider via an EHR. Clinical decision support tools available to providers improve safety such as reducing medication errors.
EHRs and PHRs enable patients to become more engaged as consumers by being able to keep track of and having access to their information, being able to communicate with their providers securely, and getting access to their own results and information in a shorter time. They can get electronic copies of their record within 3 days of requesting it.The patients’ risks can be identified interventions can be made at an early stage. Patients receive appointment reminders, education for healthier lifestyles, and other care plans. Since the record is in one place, and multiple providers can access it simultaneously, there is better coordination of with less errors and duplication of tests and treatments. EHR has the capabilities and advantages that are lacking in paper-based health records.
According to myPHR.com, the PHR is a tool for patients to use to collect, track and share past and current information about their health or the health of someone in their care. Having information can save money and inconvenience of repeating routine medical tests. PHRs can give medical care providers more insight into a patients personal health story. Patients are empowered to ultimately be responsible for making decisions about their own health.