Talk:Personal health record

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The article, as it stands, seems to ignore the types of PHRs that are integrated with EHRs. For instance, a hospital that uses an Epic EHR system might also install MyChart for patients. So-called patient portals like MyChart give patients a view of their personal health information stored in the EHR. Many consider these patient portals to also be PHRs, though this is debatable. Should we add this type?

I also wonder if we shouldn't change the first sentence of the article. PHRs aren't always 'created' by the patient. If we include patient portals as PHRs, then it's obvious that some PHRs are 'created' by an entity other than the patient. Even if we exclude patient portals, some PHRs allow importation of data from other systems. Thus, saying that the patient 'creates' the PHR isn't entirely accurate.

Vitamin D 15:45, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

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