Connecting Americans to their Healthcare. Final Report of the Working Group on Policies for Electronic Information Sharing Between Doctors and Patients

Learning points from paper

The PHR has several distinct attributes:

• Each person controls his or her own PHR.  Individuals decide which parts of their PHR can be accessed, by whom and for how long.
• PHRs contain information from one’s entire lifetime.
• PHRs contain information from all health care providers.
• PHRs are accessible from any place at any time.
• PHRs are private and secure.
• PHRs are “transparent.” Individuals can see who entered each piece of data, where it was transferred from and who has viewed it.
• PHRs permit easy exchange of information with other health information systems and health professionals.  
  

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Citation and Abstract

Connecting for Health 2004, ‘Connecting Americans to their Healthcare. Final Report of the Working Group on Policies for Electronic Information Sharing Between Doctors and Patients’, Markle Foundation. Characteristics of an ideal PHR.

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