background healthcare stakeholders have a great interest in the adoption and use of electronic personal health records (ephrs) because of the potential benefits associated with them. little is known, however, about the level of adoption of ephrs in canada and there is limited evidence concerning their benefits and implications for the healthcare system. this study aimed to describe the current ...

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...

introduction: personal health record is an individual–oriented system that is planned for people to access their health information that using other means of support such as knowledge databases to help people to have more active role in their health considering that physicians and nurses have a basic role in its completing, educating and using of this tools, this study was conducted to evaluate...

background: diabetes disease is one of the 4 main types of non-communicable diseases. no research has been conducted in order to identify data items for diabetic personal health record (dphr), in iran. this study, with the aim of systematically developing the dphr was done to supply ultimately the country with a national model through delphi method. methods: we conducted a systematic review of ...