Feature Stories

Improved Health Literacy Help Patients Make Informed Medical Decisions A basic definition for health literacy is the ability to comprehend medical information and make the right health choices based on this information. Read more...

Using Mobile Healthcare Apps for Medical Management Mobile healthcare applications are tools patients can use to better manage their health. Read more...

Social Media and Personal Health Records: A Natural Pairing or Threat to Privacy? A personal health record manager is defined as a tool for managing one’s health and medical data in a safe, secure, usually digital, environment. Read more...

The Blue Button Initiative. The Blue Button Initiative is a new feature of the personal health management tool, MyHealtheVet, a resource for US Veterans, soldiers on active duty, and their families and caregivers. Read more...

Privacy and Your PHR. Many new laws and regulations affect your personal health information and how it is used. Read more...

PHRs Offered by Health Insurers. Many health insurers such as Aetna, Cigna, BlueCross/BlueShield and UnitedHealth offer personal health records. Not only do they offer these to their members but encourage the use of this tool to help manage health care and contain cost. Read More...

Mobile Health Apps: Track Your Health from Anywhere!
Every time you walk into a health provider’s office lately, you are handed a clipboard with a ream of paper attached asking for every detail of your medical history. Sometimes, if you’re lucky, the office will mail it ahead so you can start early on it, or even try to look some of the dates up in your records. Let’s face it. Once we’ve had a surgery or an immunization, or a medication change, we move forward to recovery or whatever comes next. It’s tough to remember details.

This is where a mobile personal health record comes in. There are tons of PHRs out there, but some are designed to be mobile. Whether web-based, USB, or on a cell phone or other mobile device, your medical information is right there, in its entirety so you don’t have to try to start from scratch trying to remember when you had that tetanus shot or tonsillectomy.
Read more....

PHRs from EHR Vendors: Beneficial to Patients? A Consumer Perspective Read more...