Online Health Record Review

Question: Discuss about the Online Health Record Review. Answer: Since we were supposed to look for the 3 most important elements, subsection 2.1 and 2.2 i.e. Patient information and Personal control became the focus of my review. From thereon, criteria 1, 3, 6 and 7 were the ones that impressed me the most. However, for the sake of choosing the most crucial 3, I have taken the assumption that the whole point of having PHRs in the first place is that they be available to the patient community and hence assumed criteria 1 to be inherently true. Hence, I chose criteria 3, 6 and 7 (Sunyaev, Chornyi, Mauro, Krcmar, 2010). Criteria 1 Medical information should be presented in a cognitively accessible way Since patients suffering from various ailments are always in need of more and more information, the existence of a PHR would be useless if they are not able to comprehend it due to a lack of sufficient medical know-how. Virtual communities are one such way in which patients try to overcome the huge gap between their medical knowledge and medical teams complex vocabulary. Leimeister Krcmar, 2005 have explored this concept of virtual communities and how they affect patients information needs in detail. Criteria 2 A possibility for an emergency access should exist All of the varied benefits of a PHR would be pretty useless if they are not accessible in a timely manner at the time of emergencies. Bouri and Ravi talk about how mobile based PHRs or mPHRs help relieve this concern of accessing PHRs at the right time in an accessible manner. Criteria 3 Each individual should control access to their PHR The possibility of crucial medical information falling into wrong hands and being exploited by wrong people is a very real and ever present threat in the medical community. Thus, it is very important that there exist appropriate safeguards to protect the privacy of individual to their sensitive personal health records without putting in place unnecessary barriers to the genuine uses of health IT and these PHRs (Koufi, Malamateniou, Vassilacopoulos, 2014). References Bouri, N., Ravi, S. (2014). Going mobile: how mobile personal health records can improve health care during emergencies. JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 2(1), e8. Koufi, V., Malamateniou, F., Vassilacopoulos, G. (2014). Privacy-Preserving Access Control for PHR-Based Emergency Medical Systems. In Concepts and Trends in Healthcare Information Systems (pp. 61-78). Springer International Publishing. Leimeister, J. M., Krcmar, H. (2005). Evaluation of a systematic design for a virtual patient community. Journal of Computer?Mediated Communication, 10(4), 00-00. Sunyaev, A., Chornyi, D., Mauro, C., Krcmar, H. (2010, January). Evaluation framework for personal health records: Microsoft HealthVault vs. Google Health. In System Sciences (HICSS), 2010 43rd Hawaii International Conference on (pp. 1-10). IEEE.