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Personal health records and patient portals
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What is a personal health record?
What information goes into a PHR?
PHRs, EHRs and patient portals
What are the benefits of a PHR?
Are there drawbacks to PHRs?
Will my information be kept private?
How do I get started?
What is a personal health record?
A personal health record is simply a collection of information about your health. If you have a shot record or a folder of medical papers, you already have a basic personal health record.
And you've probably encountered the big drawback of paper records: You rarely have them with you when you need them.
Electronic personal health records (PHRs) remedy that problem by making your information accessible to you anytime via web-enabled devices, such as computers, smartphones and tablets.
