Consumer health informatics and personal health records

Biomedical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine: Fourth Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 517-539

  Johnson, Kevin ^a   Jimison, Holly Brugge ^b   Mandl, Kenneth D ^c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS;

CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATICS; PERSONAL HEALTH RECORD;

HEALTH CARE;

EID: 85027117758     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4471-4474-8_17     Document Type: Chapter

References (3)

1. The 1994 Guardian Angel Manifesto. www.ga.org. This site describes a collaborative project begun in 1994 to "put power and responsibility for health care more into the hands of patients." It also provides a comprehensive set of references to many other personal health record projects.
2. Susanna Fox's blogs and reports. http://www.pewinternet.org/Experts/Susannah-Fox.aspx. This site provides a collection of presentations from form Pew Internet and American Life Project, which studies the technologyrelated cultural shifts in health care.
3. Mandl, K. D., & Kohane, I. S. (2008). The architecture of Personally Controlled Health Records. Tectonic shifts in the health information economy. New England Journal of Medicine, 358 (16), 1732-1737. This is a recent review of the transformation taking place in health care as a result of widespread introduction of personally controlled health records.