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Personal Health Records (PHRs)- a Nightmare or a Helping Hand?
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Most of the people generate PHRs because they want to be proactive in their care. Many of them also see it as a way to help their physicians...Andis Robeznieks writes about personal health records (PHR) in Modern Healthcare, a weekly magazine. It discusses the technical, clinical, legal and operational headaches it can create for physicians. The patients create PHRs with the help of numerous electronic tools available. Some of these tools could create PHRs that are excruciatingly fancy and impractical from a health provider’s stand point.
I think most of the people generate PHRs because they want to be proactive in their care. Many of them also see it as a way to help their physicians treat them better. However, many times they do not serve the intended purpose.
The PHRs are a part of doctor-patient relationship. The proactive patients want to do everything they can to help their physicians help them. As health care professionals, we need to help them do that. The physicians in active practice (those in the trenches, as they say) need to explain to the patients what information in the PHR will help them. We need physician designed PHRs.
A while back, I created a free, downloadable form that patients use to create their own records. Many patients have found this simple form called Little Giri very useful. Many physicians have told me that they can provide better care in less time to the patients with this form.
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Today there are a wide range of personal health records available in the market.Only a few are created by physicians or with the help of physicians.Most of the Personal health records contain some fancy personal health information,which serve no benefit to physicians in real time.Although claims are made that they benefit physicians and patients alike.
I strongly feel that we would still need a physician created and collaborated patient centric personal health record,that benefits physicians and patients all over the world.Although a free downloaded form with all necessary templates benefits patients,but for physicians it may create an additional burden in paper work.
Digital personal health records provides key to help both patients and physicians when they are used appropriately with user friendly templates and made compatible with all current operating softwares and regular physician work flow.
The key is to reduce physician work flow and to increase patient education in appropriate use of digital personal health record.
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I agree with Dr. Chander. As a physician and founder of a 2 year old PassportMD.com, I have created a free personal health record service for patients to easily use and carry with them. The service was created from my perspective. In other words, what would help me (as a doctor) to see and know if I were treating that patient. Also, I created it in a format that would not change the workflow of physicians to utilize and share their information and medical records.
I do believe that PHR's, like PassportMD.com, definitely are here to stay and should. However, with time, they will be "massaged" into the most universally applicable format. That is PassportMD's goal as PassportMD is a project in the making ; a fluid, dynamic, service that we will continually improve.