Personal health records and hypertension control: a randomized trial

Personal health records and hypertension control: a randomized trial

PURPOSE To examine the impact of a personal health record (PHR) in patients with hypertension measured by changes in biological outcomes, patient empowerment, patient perception of quality of care, and use of medical services. METHODS A cluster-randomized effectiveness trial with PHR and no PHR groups was conducted in two ambulatory clinics. 453 of 1686 (26.4%) patients approached were includ...

Personal health records: a randomized trial of effects on elder medication safety

PURPOSE To examine the impact of a personal health record (PHR) on medication-use safety among older adults. BACKGROUND Online PHRs have potential as tools to manage health information. We know little about how to make PHRs accessible for older adults and what effects this will have. METHODS A PHR was designed and pretested with older adults and tested in a 6-month randomized controlled tri...

Practice-linked online personal health records for type 2 diabetes mellitus: a randomized controlled trial.

BACKGROUND Web-based personal health records (PHRs) have been advocated as a means to improve type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) care. However, few Web-based systems are linked directly to the electronic medical record (EMR) used by physicians. METHODS We randomized 11 primary care practices. Intervention practices received access to a DM-specific PHR that imported clinical and medications data, p...

Personal Health Records

The paper addresses the complex interplay between patients, healthcare professionals, and technology in relation to the treatment of chronic patients. It reflects on an ongoing interdisciplinary action research project striving to design and implement IT support for communication and collaboration in the distributed heterogeneous network of chronic patients and the healthcare professionals that...

Personal health records.