Integrating PHRs Into EHR Platforms

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To prepare:

  • Review the media Patient-Centered Technologies, and reflect upon Dr. Simpson’s statements about the ownership of patient data.
  • Review the article,“Dreams and Nightmares: Practice and Ethical Issues for Patients and Physicians Using Personal Health Records” found in this week’s Learning Resources. Consider how PHR capabilities can be integrated into EHR platforms.
  • Examine the “dreams” and the “nightmares” the authors associate with this type of integrated health record. Select one benefit or one challenge of integrating PHRs into EHR platforms. Then, consider its potential impact on health care providers and patients. Why is this considered to be a benefit or challenge for health care professionals and patients?

Post a brief description of your selected benefit or challenge and support your selection. Explain the potential impact on health care professionals and patients.

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Integrating PHRs into Computerized Health Record

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INTEGRATING PHR WITH COMPUTERIZED HEALTH RECORD
Integrating PHR with Computerized Health Record
According to the journal by Wynia and Dunn (2010), public health records (PHRs) can
be integrated into electronic health records (EHRs).before exploring ways of integrating it into
EHR, let first define PHR. From the table I, there are several definitions of PHR but I will go
with Markle Foundation of 2003.The foundation defined it as an electronic application through
which patients voice their health concerns, control and have access to health care services. The
foundation also argued that patients can share health information with others through private,
confident and secure surrounding.
From the journal by Wynia and Dunn, several functional models have been explored in
table II.First is the provider owned and provider maintained model on the summary of digitally
clinically health database. Through this model, patients access their health information (EHR)
through portals from the internet and relevant reports. The second way is the use of digital files.
Patients' information is compiled in files is stored, transported and secured mobile phones,
electronic cards, digital assistants and USB cables and sticks. The final model is the software
program owned by the patients. Patients through their physicians enter, manage, compile and
retrieve their health data. This helps healthcare providers obtain problems, diagnosis, concerns,
emergency information that pertains to the patients (Wynia, & Dunn, 2010).
American companies like Wal-Mart, AT&T, BP America and Intel are the pioneers who
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