Personal medical record card.

Medical Smart Card System for Patient Record Management

Rising healthcare spending has led to an increase in calls for ways to reduce the cost of healthcare. Amid the debate on the best approach on cut costs in the healthcare system, one of the few bipartisan provisions is the need to integrate modern technology into the storage and transfer of medical records. Current attempts to establish such electronic medical records are challenged by concerns ...

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An obstetric anaesthetic record card.

ANAESTHETIC records, it has been stated, may not only constitute an immediate distraction to an anaesthetist, but are of little use thereafter, for retrospective examination may fail to reveal some vital detail. These objections are not valid when the records to be kept are simplified, systematically completed and filed, and methodically planned for the purpose of some preconceived investigation.

Intelligent Personal Health Record

Web-based personal health records (PHRs) are widely available to ordinary consumers at present, but the existing PHR systems have limited intelligence and can fulfill only a small portion of users’ healthcare needs. Previously, we proposed the concept of intelligent PHR (iPHR) to improve PHR’s capability and usability. By introducing and extending expert system technology, Web search technology...

The Personal Health Record

Many healthcare information technology (HIT) groups have demonstrated a growing interest in PHRs. Citing some examples of this interest among many are HIMSS’ inauguration of a PHR Steering Committee in 2006; HL7 developing PHR related use cases in 2007; The Markle Foundation convening a group of industry experts regarding PHRs in 2007; CCHIT assuming the task of certifying PHRs, with a major fo...