Pros: Registration to Healthy Circles is completely free of cost and can be done in a matter of minutes. The consumer portal of Healthy Circles is very user-friendly.

Cons: Healthy Circles offers many ways to connect – to healthcare programs, to care teams and to telemedicine services. Not all users may be ready for these more sophisticated PHR services.

The Bottomline: Health Circles is a free online heath resource for both consumers and healthcare professionals. The Healthy Circles Consumer Portal connects patients to their Health Care Professionals and makes it easy for monitoring personal and family health and securely sharing health information.

Editor’s Rating:

Reviewed on August 8, 2011

Summary:
Healthy Circles provides integration and connected health services to organizations, electronic medical record (EMR) vendors and clinical system providers around the world. Healthy Circles is a platform where patients and their healthcare professionals can be connected and share vital health and medical information. PHR includes personalized charts, graphs, and trackers; medication management tools; and a secure message center.



Features:
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Connected Personal Heath Record
The Connected Personal Health Record (PHR) allows you to monitor and organize your health information. You no longer have to maintain paper records, but can record laboratory results, immunization records, family history, symptoms and procedures and store records using interactive charts and graphs.

Care Team
With the care team feature, you can connect with your family members, caregivers and health care professionals in a secure manner. You can choose who you want in your care team and how much access to give them over your healthcare.



Medication Management
This feature is really helpful in managing reminders for medication and refills. You will receive reminders through email or SMS to take your medicine on time. These reminders can be set by yourself or you can give permission to any of your care team member to do so.

Online Health Programs
Health Circles provides interactive online health programs designed by health care professionals and nationally-recognized organizations. It allows you to benefit from their knowledge and expertise and also gives you alerts if required.

Doctor visits made easy
With the healthy circles consumer portal, you can schedule appointments and manage your calendar with your care team. Before visiting the doctor, you can print your health history, medications and other necessary information to aid the doctor in assessing your medical condition.

Care Solutions Directory
The Care Solutions Directory provides you with immediate access to a list of health care professionals and organizations that offer professional, remote monitoring services. You can have access to the Health Programs that will allow you to take proper care of you and your family’s health without having to go to distant doctors.