Exploring the World of Online Personal Health Records
Continue Reading January 18th, 2010 Peter Swartwout
You might have noticed how hard it is to obtain your own health care history. Most medical records are written on paper. This is changing, but slowly. Even forward-looking doctors, hospitals, and pharmacies who are converting to electronic records have a hard time integrating with each other, since each IT system is largely independent of other systems. What you, the patient, would like to see is all of your history together in one place, regardless of who the provider was or where the care was given.