The Adoption and Use of Personal Health Records
This blog is created to inform and encourage people to switch from keeping paper-based health records to the new, more efficient online Personal Health Records (PHRs), which are are lifelong, electronic records of heath information that provide better access for patients to their own healthcare information, which they can control and manage on their own.
Monday, March 7, 2011
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Personal Health Records: Advantages and Disadvantages
Personal Health Records are records of your personal health information stored on a system. They provide easier and faster access for patients to their information, which they can manage and control to their liking.
Advantages
1.) Ensley, S., Kibbe, D.C., Linares, A., & Colorafi, K. (2006). An introduction to
2.) (1999, November 1). Protecting Patient Privacy. 2011, March 2. Retrieved from
Advantages
- you can limit who can access your PHR online
- you can limit how much of your personal information people can access
- many different types of people can access them (i.e. your physicians, pharmacists, pharmacies, insurance companies, etc.)
- many different forms as website ones are stored on a secure, reliable server created by one of your personal health care providers
- Also, when a new doctor asks a patient for his medication history but he can’t remember it, he can go access the patient’s PHR online with his password and find it during an appointment (Ensley, Kibbe, Linares, & Colorafi, 2006, p. 57-62).
Disadvantages
- there is still no federal law right now stopping people from sharing or selling personal medical records to any marketing agencies or other 3rd parties without the patient’s consent
- companies often take patient data without their consent and the data is shared without taking out all unique identifiers in it that reveal a patient’s personal information (“Protecting Patient,” 1999, p. 1)
- It costs around $30,000 to implement an electronic record system in a health care facility
- all someone needs is the patient's password to access their entire PHR online as there is no furthur security protection
- the privacy settings in a Personal Health Record have not been fully developed yet
1.) Ensley, S., Kibbe, D.C., Linares, A., & Colorafi, K. (2006). An introduction to
personal health records. Family Practice Management, 13 (5), 57-62. American Academy of Family Physicians. 2011, March 1. Retrieved from http://www.aafp.org/fpm/2006/0500/p57.html?sms_ss=blogger
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