BACKGROUND By providing sports organizations with electronic records and instruments that can be accessed at any time or place, specialized care can be offered to athletes regardless of injury location, and this makes the follow-up from first aid through to full recovery more efficient. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to develop an electronic personal health record for professional Irani...

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...

readiness assessment provides a proper image of the existing conditions and an explanation of facilitated operational plans and functional approaches to successful implementation of electronic health record. readiness assessment requires indices adjusted to particular conditions in each country. therefore, the present study attempts to provide an acceptable model in iran and to provide an asses...

Recently there has been a remarkable upsurge in activity surrounding the adoption of personal health record (PHR) systems for patients and consumers. The biomedical literature does not yet adequately describe the potential capabilities and utility of PHR systems. In addition, the lack of a proven business case for widespread deployment hinders PHR adoption. In a 2005 working symposium, the Amer...

Web-based personal health records (PHRs) are widely available to ordinary consumers at present, but the existing PHR systems have limited intelligence and can fulfill only a small portion of users’ healthcare needs. Previously, we proposed the concept of intelligent PHR (iPHR) to improve PHR’s capability and usability. By introducing and extending expert system technology, Web search technology...

Many healthcare information technology (HIT) groups have demonstrated a growing interest in PHRs. Citing some examples of this interest among many are HIMSS’ inauguration of a PHR Steering Committee in 2006; HL7 developing PHR related use cases in 2007; The Markle Foundation convening a group of industry experts regarding PHRs in 2007; CCHIT assuming the task of certifying PHRs, with a major fo...