Medical records. I: A personal view.

Triple-view Photographs as Medical Records *

Photography has been used as a means of recording medical and scientific facts concerning the appearance of patients for some sixty years. A good photograph as part of a case record is serviceable not only for identification and the portrayal of specific lesions, but as an indicator of the health status, nutritional condition, and mental alertness of the individual at the time of examination. P...

Accessing personal medical records online: A means to what ends?

BACKGROUND Initiatives in the UK to enable patients to access their electronic health records (EHRs) are gathering momentum. All citizens of the European Union should have access to their records by 2015, a target that the UK has endorsed. OBJECTIVES To identify the ways in which patients used their access to their EHRs, what they sought to achieve, and the extent to which EHR access was rela...

Medical urology: a specialty long overdue. A personal view.

Personal Health Records among Institutions, Medical Records, and Patient Wisdom: A Socio-technical Approach

Personal Health Records (PHRs), patient-controlled information systems, are believed to be a key to transform healthcare. We argue that a single system, no matter how it is designed, is highly unlikely to have the power to reconfigure a whole sectors. PHRs are not merely technical objects that exist on their own but they should be considered as socio-technical arrangements of systems and users ...

Scrapie--a personal view.