Pros: The MyActiveHealth personal health record solution may be provided through a health plan or employer. If not provided through a health plan or employer, MyActiveHealth is available for individuals at a reasonable cost of $6.95 per year with a 90 day free trial. The app connects to Microsoft Health Vault.

Cons: The site is initially intimidating with a revving sound of the “CareEngine” and spinning graphic. This PHR is only free to those who have cooperating health plans or employers. Individuals may join, but will incur a fee. Some content loads very slowly.

The Bottomline: This PHR is not intuitive in all areas. During review, reviewer was unable to find any way to enter current medication list. This is one of the basic elements of a PHR and should be easy to find and complete. Other areas were similarly inaccessible. *This review is based on the individual membership plan.

Editor’s Rating:

Reviewed on May 18, 2011

Summary:
Active Health Management has a number of solutions for members as well as physicians. The PHR portion of this program is MyActiveHealth.



Features:
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Health Record
During review, from the dashboard screen, the first action made was an attempt to begin adding medications, but when that choice was clicked, there was no option for doing so. As the app had indicated that it worked better in Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox, the reviewer tried both of those browsers. Again, there was no way to add a medication. Returning to Health Record listings, the same result occurred when trying to enter medications from the Health Summary page. The only offerings on that page were questions to take to your doctor and the ability to add allergies.

Continuing through the Health Record, there was no way for a member to enter tests and procedures, though conditions and lifestyle options worked. Again, there was no ability to enter immunizations in that section, family history, or health care team.

Health Assessment
Listed third of the 6 options, the Health Assessment seemed as though it might be the answer to the problem of entering information.



The app indicates how many questions are in each section, but more are generated if certain answers are given. Completing the Assessment still did not allow the reviewer to enter medications.

Resources
There are a variety of resources available to find healthy recipes, look up medications, print forms, print or download the health record and more.