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== Clark JL, Meiris DC. Electronic Personal Health Records Come of Age, AJMQ 2006 May-June supplement to 21(3):5S-15S. ==
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Is a personal health record a patient portal into a healthcare provider's EHR system, or more generally any consumer/patient-managed health record? The authors give the definition: “a person-centered system designed to track and support health activities across one’s entire life experience; not limited to a single organization or provider.”
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Maintenance of a personal health record on paper is a practice of long standing, and passage of HIPAA provided a legal basis for patients to own their information. Evolution and adoption of electronic health record systems have provided a technical premise for moving forward. Web-based PHR technology would offer the potential to engage patients, giving them access, and enabling them to make their cumulative record available to their disparate health care providers.
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The consumer perspective is that PHRs could provide health care data access at all times and places. Consumer engagement in the process could potentially lead to improved health through preventive measures, early detection and overall wellness activities – induced by that engagement. The provider perspective is problematic. Providers may be slow to adopt a PHR without incentives to pay for entering patient information. General resistance to change and previous negative experience with lost investments in early EHR systems may be further deterrents. Barriers to use and dissemination include privacy issues, lack of technical proficiency among older patients, lack of computer/internet access among lower socioeconomic groups, limited health literacy and the question of whether consumers are willing to pay all or part of the cost.
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Comments: The Department of Health Policy at Jefferson Medical College (Philadelphia)
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hosted an international advisory board meeting on the topic of personal health records, which is the basis for this article. This meeting was enabled by non-restricted educational grant from InterComponentWare (ICW) the developer of and vendor for the LifeSensor  product. LifeSensor is prominently featured in this article as “a fine example of a fully functional, globally implemented system.”
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==Departments of Biomedical or Medical Informatics==
 
==Departments of Biomedical or Medical Informatics==

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The Clinical Informatics Wiki -- Clinfowiki

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Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Systems

see EMR

==Computer-based Provider Order Entry -- CPOE== see CPOE

==Clinical Decision Support -- CDS== see CDS

==Personal Health Records -- PHRs== see PHR

Blueprint for a Comprehensive HIT System

==Biobanking -- a.k.a. Biorepositories or Tissue Banks == see BioBanking

Organizational issues

The Role of the CMIO

==Regional Health Information Organizations -- RHIOs== see RHIO

==Evidence-Based Medicine -- EBM== see EBM

==Evaluation Methods in Informatics== see Evaluation

U.S. Federal Health Information Technology Initiatives

The E-Patient-Provider Relationship

Interface Terminology

International views

Blogposium, April 2006

The Blogposium, held from April 18-20, was an innovation in collaborative blogging and wiki building.

The effort marshalled the expertise and energy of several dozen health bloggers and volunteers to expand and refine this Clinical Informatics Wiki. Bloggers posted their first drafts of entries as posts or links to this wiki and invited readers to provide comments and edit suggestions.

While many bloggers and readers contributed to this Web 2.0 innovation in collaborative work, key participants included the follow blogs. Please visit them and thank them for their contributions:

Reviews of Recent articles on Clinical Informatics

Departments of Biomedical or Medical Informatics

See List of Informatics Departments

Endowed Professorships and Chairs in Health / Medical / Nursing / Biomedical Informatics

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External Links

External Medical Reference Links

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