Objective: The objective of the current paper is to investigate use electronic patient records (E-PHRs) among elder people and those with low income. Elder population due awareness, literacy rate, income level lack training experience felt difficulty while assessing E-PHRs. Background: Use PHRs has been increasing in healthcare organizations. Patients’ involvement managing health crucial. Howev...

Digital Rights Management (DRM) schemes are receiving increased attention in the healthcare domain for the protection of sensitive health records as they offer security against insider attacks and advance protection features such as usage control. However, to be accepted by health care providers, a DRM solution has to fulfill specific healthcare requirements including emergency access. In this ...

The author describes problems related to the implementation of electronic medical record in family medicine in Slovenia since 1992 when first personal computers have been delivered to family physicians' practices. The situation of health care informatization and implementation of electronic medical record in primary health care in new countries, other former Yugoslav republics, is described. Th...

BACKGROUND The older adult population (65 years or older) in the United States is growing, and it is important for communities to consider ways to support the aging population. Patient portals and electronic personal health records (ePHRs) are technologies that could better serve populations with the highest health care needs, such as older adults. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to asses...

An important future application of the German electronic health card (elektronische Gesundheitskarte, eGK) is the national Personal Health Record (PHR), because it enables a citizen to store and retrieve sensitive medical data in a secure and self-determined manner. As the stored data is encrypted with an eGKspecific certificate and retrieving the encrypted data is only possible after TLSbased ...

BACKGROUND Access to personal health information through the electronic health record (EHR) is an innovative means to enable people to be active participants in their own health care. Currently this is not an available option for consumers of health. The absence of a key technology, the EHR, is a significant obstacle to providing patient accessible electronic records. To assess the readiness fo...

The US Government is mandating a transition from paperbased patient record systems to electronic medical record systems (EMR), as well as an adopting of the personal health record (PHR). This research seeks to employ nonclinical IT adoption models in a clinical setting to understand how the legal governances, incentives and penalties, and unremitting changes in requirements impact the adoption ...

The research related with digital health records is has been a hot topic since the last two decades, producing diverse results namely two main types – Electronic Health Records and Personal Health Records. Based on those types of records different implementations appeared, although new challenges also emerged. The wider citizen mobility, liberalization of health care providing, alternative medi...