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

Halamka, John

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

John Halamka⁸

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First Online: 12 February 2019

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Abstract

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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Department of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
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Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Ph.D. Adrian Levy
ICON plc, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Sarah Goring
Department of Biostatistics, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
Constantine Gatsonis
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Boris Sobolev
European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, Department of Health Care Management, Berlin University of Technology, Berlin, Germany
Ewout van Ginneken
Department Health Care Management Faculty of Economics and Management, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Prof. Dr. Reinhard Busse

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Halamka, J. (2019). Health Services Information: Personal Health Records as a Tool for Engaging Patients and Families. In: Levy, A., Goring, S., Gatsonis, C., Sobolev, B., van Ginneken, E., Busse, R. (eds) Health Services Evaluation. Health Services Research. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8715-3_13

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8715-3_13
Published: 12 February 2019
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