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Southampton launches My Health Record
20 September 2012 Lyn Whitfield Southampton General Hospital University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust has become the first acute trust to launch a personal health record built on Microsoft’s HealthVault platform.
20 September 2012 Rebecca Todd Patients value online transactional services above the ability to view their electronic medical record; and patient access portals must be highly usable to succeed, a new report says. 2020health launched its report, 'Personal health records: putting patients in control?' with a round table at Church House in Westminster on Tuesday.
Patient demands should drive PHRs
AHIMA unveils tool to spur PHR use
Officials at the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) announced Tuesday a new online guide to help spur patient understanding of their medical records. The Understanding Your Medical Record guide was posted to myPHR.com , a resource for seniors, caregivers, physicians and parents. AHIMA launched the myPHR.com website in 2006 as a resource for consumers interested in maintaining their own personal health records. The guide was announced at the second Consumer Health Summit facilitated by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)Public release date: 10-Jul-2012 [ Print | E-mail | Share ] [ Close Window ] Contact: John Wallace wallacej@vcu.edu 804-628-1550 Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, Va. (July 9, 2012) – Patients who use an interactive personal health record (IPHR) are almost twice as likely to be up to date with clinical preventive services as those who do not, according to a new study led by Alex Krist, M.D., M.P.H., research member of the Cancer Prevention and Control program at Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center.
Interactive personal health records increase clinical preventive services
Maudsley launches HealthVault-based PHR
15 May 2012 Rebecca Todd Maudsley Hospital South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust is today launching personal online health records for its patients, using Microsoft’s HealthVault platform. Director of information strategy, Mike Denis, presented on the MyHealthBox project at the Health+In4matics conference in Birmingham last week. He told attendees the project was a partnership between the trust, the Institute of Psychiatry and service users. It aims to improve patients’ engagement in their care and the use of outcome measurements across the trust.
With groups recently banding together to demand a tightening of security for protected health information , looking at the financial side of a breach has been put front and center. But according to Rick Kam, president and cofounder of ID Experts, there's an aspect of protecting PHI that's "not getting picked up," and is focusing on the relationship between CIO and CFO. "We started on the path about a year ago to uncover what would happen if PHI was disclosed, and what the financial impact would be," said Kam, speaking of the recent report, " The Financial Impact of Breached Protected Health Information ." He added that, "one of the things we realized is the value of data is in the eye of the beholder." With the wavering emphasis placed on protecting PHI, Kam and his team concluded it's up to the CIO to translate their technical-speak into money-speak.
5 things CIOs need to know about funding the protection of PHI
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making | Full text | Designing a patient-centered personal health record to promote preventive care
Technical Advance The IPHR design is based on a conceptual model to make information technology more patient-centered [ 27 ]. The model specifies five necessary components which include: (1) collecting patient information, (2) integrating existing clinical data, (3) interpreting patient information, (4) providing personalized recommendations, and (5) facilitating patient and clinician action. How these components were operationalized is described in greater detail below.
Designing a patient-centered personal health record to promote preventive care.
Evidence-based preventive services offer profound health benefits, yet Americans receive only half of indicated care. A variety of government and specialty society policy initiatives are promoting the adoption of information technologies to engage patients in their care, such as personal health records, but current systems may not utilize the technology's full potential.Using a previously described model to make information technology more patient-centered, we developed an interactive preventive health record (IPHR) designed to more deeply engage patients in preventive care and health promotion. We recruited 14 primary care practices to promote the IPHR to all adult patients and sought practice and patient input in designing the IPHR to ensure its usability, salience, and generalizability. The input involved patient usability tests, practice workflow observations, learning collaboratives, and patient feedback.
A global travelers' electronic health record template standard for personal health records -- Li et al. 19 (1): 134
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association jamia.bmj.com 2012; 19 : 134-136 doi:10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000323 Brief communication + Author Affiliations Correspondence to Professor and Dean Yu-Chuan Li, Graduate Institute of Biomedical Informatics, College of Medical Science and Technology, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan; jaak88@gmail.com Received 21 April 2011 Accepted 6 July 2011 Published Online First 17 August 2011
Computer-based safety surveillance and patient-centered health records -- Ohno-Machado 19 (1): 1
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association jamia.bmj.com 2012; 19 : 1 doi:10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000673 Highlights There is much debate on which types of computer-based systems have the most impact in healthcare delivery and patient outcomes. Safety surveillance systems, which have been around for several years, are probably at the top of the list.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association jamia.bmj.com 2012; 19 : 116-120 doi:10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000261 Perspective
The challenges in making electronic health records accessible to patients -- Beard et al. 19 (1): 116
OpenNotes project allows patients easy access to their medical records
Recording notes about a patient is standard practice among physicians and has often left patients curious about what is written down about them. While federal law guarantees patients the right to examine and get copies of their medical records, it hasn’t always been an easy process to go through. In fact, there has been some reluctance on doctors to reveal this information in a timely manner.WASHINGTON | Bernie Monegain | April 2, 2013 | 03:09 PM | Data Warehousing, Quality and Safety, Policy and Legislation Dubbing it "the next great American project," President Barack Obama, announced Tuesday the launch of the BRAIN Initiative, aimed at unlocking the many mysteries of the brain. The $100 million "to get the project off the ground" comes from... More