HealthVault: PHRs still growing, but is the industry even ready?
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Fast forward to today. PHRs are definitely making inroads, but not necessarily in the way Microsoft (or competitor Google Inc., which in 2008 launched its own consumer-oriented PHR service) had hoped. A Forrester Research survey of more than 5,200 consumers conducted in late 2009 found that almost a third of respondents had some form of PHR-but the vast majority are getting them from their health insurer.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Health data management
دوره 18 6 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010