Sharing medical data for health research: The early personal health record experience

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Weitzman, Elissa R ^a,b,c   Kaci, Liljana ^a,b   Mandl, Kenneth D ^a,b,c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Children's Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^c HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data sharing; HITECH; Information altruism; Medical records; Personal health records; Personally controlled health records (PCHR); Public health informatics

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALTRUISM; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLASSIFICATION; CONFIDENTIALITY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AGED; ALTRUISM; COMMUNICATION; CONFIDENTIALITY; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH RECORDS, PERSONAL; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ENGLAND; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 77953842860     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.1356     Document Type: Article

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