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44 Section 1 - DATA CONTENT STRUCTURE AND STANDARDS CASE 1-24 O Choosing a Personal Health Record You have had a variety of illnesses, hospitalizations, and surgeries. Physicians who treat you include a primary care physician; an ear, nose, and throat (ENTI specialist: a cardiologist; a nephrologist: a retinal specialist: a glaucoma specialist; a psychiatrist; and a urologist. It seems that you are visiting the health information department frequently for copies of your health record for one physician or another. An HIM professional said that you could benefit from having a personal health record IPHRI. You have decided that you want to learn more about it. Review three of the web-based PHRs foundati o n Use the following categories to conduct your investigation of the web-based PHRS: • Backup • Robustness of content that can be entered • Uptime • Ease of use • Expense • Storage size • Privacy and security 1. What benefits would you expect to encounter when you implement your PHR? 2. What other information might the patient want to know?

Answer 1

1. Benefits of PHR

• Track and assess your helath
• Make the most of doctor visits
• Manage your health between visits
• Get organized.
• less expensive
• helps to make better treatments
• patients illness can be tracked and early intervention can be given

2. What other informations might the patient wants to know

• Patient assess to a wide array of credible health information , data, and knowledge.
• Patient can leverage that access to improve their health and manage their diseases
• once data is in a PHR it usually owned and controlled by the patient.
• The demention of trust can be devided into trust of physicians and trust of patients.Trust as an independet variable for health information research and to find the relationship between protection of security and privacy of PHR and trust.