Personal Health Records

The Content and Structure of Electronic Personal Health Records: A Systematic Review

Introduction: The electronic Personal Health Record (ePHR) improves people’s awareness and care management and leads to health promotion. One of the most important factors that contributes to the development of ePHR is identifying and understanding its content and structure. No comprehensive studies have so far been performed on the content and structure of ePHRs. Therefore, the purpose of this...

The Content and Structure of Electronic Personal Health Records: A Systematic Review

Introduction: The electronic Personal Health Record (ePHR) improves people’s awareness and care management and leads to health promotion. One of the most important factors that contributes to the development of ePHR is identifying and understanding its content and structure. No comprehensive studies have so far been performed on the content and structure of ePHRs. Therefore, the purpose of this...

EigenJournal : A personal collaborative medical journal

In today’s health care, a growing interest in more active patient involvement in their treatment is emerging. Along with the fact that electronic health records is now commonly used by most health care provides, a unique possibility to improve patient involvement through personal health records exists. This paper investigates the premisses under which a personal health record system is to be im...

Electronic Personal Health Records and Systems to Improve Care for Vulnerable Populations

The efforts of this research are to educate patients within vulnerable populations in the use of electronic personal health records so they may better monitor their health, attain desired health goals and manage their health services. Evaluation measures will include facets of self-management of health, patient-physician communication, and assessment of accessibility and usability factors of th...

Potential of electronic personal health records.

Evaluation Measures for Detection of Personal Health Information

Texts containing personal health information reveal enough data for a third party to be able to identify an individual and his health condition. Detection of personal health information in electronic health records is an essential part of record deidentification. Performance evaluation in use today focuses on method’s ability to identify whether a word reveals personal health information or not...