Final Blog - Personal Health Records
As you all know, I've spent the semester looking into Personal Health Records. My interest in Personal Health Records stems from the seeming lag between consumer and patient expectations of what a personal health record should be, and what actually exists in the marketplace. My original goal was to survey patients in the local Tucson area about what their expectations, intent, and hope is for using PHRs. I eventually realized that simply doing a firsthand patient survey probably wouldn't get me the information I was hoping for, and that there were likely more in depth studies that had already been performed on the topic. Throughout the course of my research I learned that there are many types of PHRs and many stakeholders riding on the success and information that they can provide. A basic PHR provides an electronic record of a person's health information, where they have the ability to track, manage, and participate in their own healthcare. Two key types of per