Background and Goal: ICT development in recent years has created excellent developments in human social and economic life. One of the most important opportunities to use information technology is in the medical field, that the result would be electronic health record (EHR).The purpose of this research is to investigate the effects information securi...

BACKGROUND Electronic personal health records (PHRs) are increasingly recognized and used as a tool to address various challenges stemming from the scattered and incompatible personal health information that exists in the contemporary US health care system. Although activity around PHR development and deployment has increased in recent years, little has been reported regarding the use and utili...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the policy making process, implementation by NHS organisations, and patients' and carers' experiences of efforts to introduce an internet accessible personal electronic health record (HealthSpace) in a public sector healthcare system. DESIGN Mixed method, multilevel case study. SETTING English National Health Service; the basic HealthSpace technology (available through...

BACKGROUND Patients with rare diseases often lack information about the disease itself and appropriate health care, leading to poor quality of life. Personal health records provide health information which can then be shared between multiple health care providers. Personal health records may also offer a tool for capturing patients' reported outcomes, thus enhancing their empowerment and improv...

Chronic conditions often plague people, and many require frequent care and medications throughout their lifetimes. Mobile computer applications and sensors can be used to monitor and detect unusual chronic health conditions, to assist in self management of diseases, and to notify patients and their providers of trends and events in their health measures. This paper describes several application...

The interoperability among different systems in healthcare is an historical problem. The development of interoperability standards, the interest for an approach based on Personal Health Record (PHR) and Electronic Health Record (HER) led a significant evolution in the field of the ehealth. In the meanwhile, Cloud Computing (CC) is a very interesting solution for IT Applications. This paradigm p...

This paper proposes various data flow models efficiently guard Electronic Health Records (EHRs). Personal Health Records (PHRs) should remain the long-term property of patients data. MyPHRMachines a patient centric system that takes a radically new architectural solution to health record interoperability. Patients Can View their Medical data and they can access and share through remote Virtual ...

OBJECTIVE To explore the role of organizational learning in enabling implementation and supporting adoption of electronic health record systems into two English hospitals. METHODS AND SETTING In the course of conducting our prospective and sociotechnical evaluation of the implementation and adoption of electronic health record into 12 "early adopter" hospitals across England, we identified tw...