Capturing and Representing Values for Requirements of Personal Health Records

Patients’ access to their medical records in the form of Personal Health Records (PHRs) is a central part of the ongoing shift in health policy, where patient empowerment is in focus. A survey was conducted to gauge the stakeholder requirements of patients in regards to functionality requests in PHRs. Models from goal-oriented requirements engineering were created to express the values and preferences held by patients in regards to PHRs from this survey. The present study concludes that patient values can be extracted from survey data, allowing the incorporation of values in the common workflow of requirements engineering without extensive reworking.