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Health Services Information: Personal Health Records as a Tool for Engaging Patients and Families

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Personal Health Records have evolved from stand alone websites requiring manual entry of data to automated mobile applications fully integrated into care management workflow. Technology issues such as interoperability, security, and patient identification have matured. Policies such as who can see what for what purpose have been enumerated. Regulations now require a deeper level of interaction between care teams and patients. Many myths about the risks of engaging patients and families have been shattered. Research continues to expand the scope of information shared with families, enhance usability of patient facing applications, and improving the utility of solutions automating patient/provider workflow.

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  1. Department of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, 02115, USA

    John Halamka

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  1. University of British Columbia Dept. Health Care & Epidemiology, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    Boris Sobolev

  2. Capital District Health Authority, Dalhousie Univ Dept of Comm Health & Epi Capital District Health Authority, HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, Canada

    Adrian Levy

  3. ICON plc , VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada

    Sarah Goring

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Halamka, J. (2015). Health Services Information: Personal Health Records as a Tool for Engaging Patients and Families. In: Sobolev, B., Levy, A., Goring, S. (eds) Data and Measures in Health Services Research. Health Services Research. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7673-4_13-1

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