Time to Switch to an Online Personal Health Record?

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Trying to get Medical Records from Keiser L.A Calif , About my knee they worked on in 1984 ? or so x-rays would be nice ?

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Acai berry free of 6:35AM March 26, 2010

Online PHRs are dangerous. Google was hacked into only a few weeks ago by China. Despite assurances of being "secure," it is simply impossible for an online PHR to guarantee with 100% surety of anyone's personal health information being safe, online. Period. And these sites are an open invitation to hackers. Would you feel comfortable with your financial statements being housed online by Google or Microsoft? No way. And medical identity theft is more serous than credit identity theft. I use HealthCare Portfolio at tandcc.com. It's perfect, and also gives me the option of storing my info on a private internet storage site, if I want to.

Karen of CA of CA 5:05PM February 03, 2010

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patric w davis of IN 9:29PM October 29, 2009

With so many emerging changes in health care as it pertains to rapid access to patient information via the electronic medical record or personal health care record, patients will need to develop a new mind-set and become their own advocate for maintaining accurate information in both electronic and personal health care records. However, the good news is for patients who are still experiencing a gap in using technology, there are professionals who are capable and willing to assist patients in gathering information for PHR's. On the other hand, unless your health care provider has digitized their records makes it more difficult to compare or maintain accuracy of both electronic medical records.
Doctor Global provides web based patient centric personal health records and disease management solutions for Diabetes, COPD and Mental Health. The Doctor Global application provides both a 'patient view' and 'physician view' of the record facilitating remote management of chronic conditions. Communication between the patient and healthcare professional takes place online, in real time, securely, and privately and is fully supported by a HIPAA compliant comprehensive electronic health record.
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deb of MI 12:42AM October 22, 2009

With so many emerging changes in health care as it pertains to rapid access to patient information via the electronic medical record or personal health care record, patients will need to develop a new mind-set and become their own advocate for maintaining accurate information in both electronic and personal health care records. However, the good news is for patients who are still experiencing a gap in using technology, there are professionals who are capable and willing to assist patients in gathering information for PHR's. On the other hand, unless your health care provider as digitized their records to it makes it more difficult to compare or maintain accuracy of both electronic medical records.
Doctor Global provides web based patient centric personal health records and disease management solutions for Diabetes, COPD and Mental Health. The Doctor Global application provides both a 'patient view' and 'physician view' of the record facilitating remote management of chronic conditions. Communication between the patient and healthcare professional takes place online, in real time, securely, and privately and is fully supported by a HIPAA compliant comprehensive electronic health record.
http://www.memri.us/research.html

deb of MI 12:39AM October 22, 2009

U.S seems to be doing a better job going electronic then Canada.
brian

brivire 7:31PM October 12, 2009

"You have to put in the man hours to keep it current." That is not the case with some of the third party providers. One Company has RN's on staff that will go to your doctors, get you information and compile it for you. As a result, the data is much more reliable.
Think about emergency situations. Is online enough? There are USB ID cards, flash drives and even IPhone applications. In case of emergency, this data being on you could save your life.
Another factor is children. Make sure you have a product that will store your entire family's medical history along with pictures. You could really use a picture of your child if you need to release an Amber Alert.
See an article that I wrote about your how your health history is scattered everywhere at http://hubpages.com/hub/Personal-Health-Record

Jason Blair, MBA of KY 2:38PM September 18, 2009

you are financially independent. At this moment, they would be nothing but a catalog of your pre-existing conditions---useful for denying your claims, rescinding your insurance altogether or maybe even jeopardizing your employment or possible employment.
Pass reform with a public option----THEN mess with PHRs, but not until.

Muser of NM 10:43PM September 17, 2009

While I applaud US News & World Report for this article on PHRs, helping educate the public on the value PHRs may provide, the article misses many critical points.
One of the most critical is the extreme difficulty that most citizens face today in simply retrieving their records from healthcare providers. It is no easy task and providers often charge ridiculously sums, even though by law they are not allowed to, to turn over records to the patient. There have also been numerous cases where the records received or imported into a consumer's PHR are full of inaccuracies. This is not a process for the feint of heart.
There are also inaccuracies in the article which are worth pointing out:
1) Google has only just begun to collect biometric data from only one device is only one device in the market today. HealthVault on the other hand has over 50 devices. Thus writing as if they are on equal footing is quite a stretch of the imagination.
2) Revolution Health's PHR, for all its promotion, is a very poor example to use. It is not a very good PHR ansd lacks numerous features and functions found in others. Surprised you even mentioned them.
3) Dossia has only one employer live today, Wal-Mart and Wal-Mart is using WebMD on the Dossia platform. Thus, when you spoke of employer-sponsored PHRs, you might as well have just said WebMD. Or you could do a little more research on other start-ups such as HealthString, Medikeeper or SimplyWell, all of whom are serving employers today.
Though Internet-based PHRs have been around for nearly a decade, only recently have they begun to get some traction in the market and frankly, we are still very early in the evolution of these applications. But evolve they will and quite rapidly. Doctors are now being offered financial incentives to digitize their medical record keeping and in 2013, those accepting Stimulus funding as part of this effort will be required to offered their customers a PHR.
The next big challenge for this market is to insure that the PHRs physicians and hospitals offer their customers are not simply a proverbial file cabinet of a consumers records that is forever tethered to the doctor's office but a truly portable record that consumers can take with them (securely export the data) and use within Personal Health Platforms (PHP) to make the data within those records not static but actionable and truly provide value to the consumer.
And in five years, maybe more, what does Chilmark Research envision?
The marriage of PHPs and mobile devices/smartphones that will allow a consumer to more effectively manage their health and the health of loved ones regardless of location, not only to simply look at and share medical records, but to make appointments with their doctor, request prescription refills, do online visits and make wiser, more cost effective healthcare choices.
By way of disclaimer, Chilmark Research is an industry analyst firm focusing on consumer healthcare IT.

John Moore of MA 8:36AM September 17, 2009