CASE 1-24 Choosing a Personal Health Record CASE : You have had a variety of ill

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CASE 1-24 Choosing a Personal Health Record CASE : You have had a variety of illnesses, hospitalizations, and surgeries. Physicians who treat you include a prima care physician; an ear, nose, and throat IENT) specialist; a cardiologist; a nephrologist; a retinal specialist AS pat pag you : a glaucoma specialist; a psychiatrist; and a urologist. It seems that you are visiting the health information department frequently for copies of your health record for one physician or another. An HIM professional said that you could benefit from having a personal health record (PHR). You have decided that you want to learn more about it. Review three of the web-based PHRs found at http://www.myphr.org. Cre Use the following categories to conduct your investigation of the web-based PHRs: . Backup Robustness of content that can be entered Uptime Ease of use Expense Storage size Privacy and security t 1. What benefits would you expect to encounter when you implement your PHR? ' 2. What other information might the patient want to know?

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personal health record is an electronic application used by patients to maintain and manage their health information in a private ,secure and confidential environment.

1.Benefits:

2.Extra information:The information stored,collected and analysed by the PHR. Any patient would be eager to know about the results recently appeared and need to compare it with the previous ones.So the history of the patients test results,diagnosis,treatment ,all these should be included and verified whenever needed. Privacy should be maintained by giving access only to the patient and the clinician.Medications and dosing records information to be provided properly.

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