Recently, personal health record (PHR) has emerged as a patient-centric model of health information exchange, which features storing PHRs electronically in one centralized place, such as a third-party cloud service provider. Personal Health Record is web based application that allows users to directly enter their information such as diagnosis, medications, laboratory tests, immunizations and ot...

Electronic personal health records (ePHRs) can potentially maximize access and coordination of health information and improve patient/clinician collaboration, patient self-management, and health outcomes. Most ePHRs are designed by vendors, physicians, and other proprietary partners and have neglected the patient perspective. This study sought to incorporate patient feedback into an existing eP...

BACKGROUND Information technologies such as websites, mobile phone applications, and virtual reality programs have been shown to deliver innovative and effective treatments for mental illness. Much of the research studying electronic mental health interventions focuses on symptom reduction; however, to facilitate the implementation of electronic interventions in usual mental health care, it is ...

Patient-controlled personal health record system can help making health care safer, cheaper, and more convenient by facilitating patients to 1) grant any care provider to access their complete personal health records anytime from anywhere, 2) avoid repeated tests and 3) control their privacy transparently. In this paper, we present the architecture of our devised Privacy-aware Patient-controlle...

The HITECH Act signed into law in 2009 requires hospitals to provide patients with electronic access to their health information through an electronic personal health record (ePHR) in order to receive Medicare/Medicaid incentive payments. Little is known about who uses these systems or the impact these systems will have on patient outcomes in HIV care. The health care empowerment model provides...