consumer own criteria in choosing a product
Competency Assignment 2Personal Health Records (PHRs) are designed to give consumers access and control of their health information. PHRs are tools that give consumers a view of their health care data, either from information they have entered, information linked to their health care provider, or information generated from insurance claim data.As Personal Health Records (PHRs) proliferate, the consumer is faced with many choices. PHRs offered through insurance plans and employers limit the consumer choices but they do provide links to clinical data. Stand-alone web-based PHRs offer more features but with little interface to the patient’s current clinical information.While there are numerous Personal Health Record products available, the industry is still at an introduction to growth stage. There are no established standards such as those available with electronic medical records and no agency that certifies the offerings. The consumer must rely on their own criteria in choosing a product.Some of the criteria that have proven to be critical for electronic medical records and for health web site services can be combined to apply them to PHRs. They include: privacy, security, usability, portability, completeness, vendor reliability, and access/availability.Use the criteria provide to evaluate, search for a PHR. You may be able to use the one affiliated with YOUR HEALTH INSURANCE (now is a good time to find out if they have one). Or, you can find one from http://myphr.comWrite a report that includes:
