Personal Health Record

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Rest in Peace: Personal Health Records (PHRs)

John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | April 12, 2011

While doing some research the other day on personal health records (PHRs), I came across this article, describing Revolution Health’s announcement — without much media attention — about dropping its PHR at the beginning of 2010. (Disclosure: I worked for Revolution Health in 2005-2006, and now have a business relationship with the company that acquired [...]

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e-Patients: a high tech group wants our input (gasp!) on connected health. DO IT!

e-Patient Dave | August 6, 2009

I’m not making this up; it’s a wonderful thing. MassMEDIC, the Massachusetts Medical Device Industry Council, is looking at the future of “connected health” devices. They’ve got a survey that’s been given to all kinds of industry and policy people, and now, blow me down, they want patients to take the survey too. DO IT! [...]

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Quick update on moving my data

e-Patient Dave | April 17, 2009

A few items before I head off to the day job:

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E-Patient Discovers Significant Flaws in System, Spin Doctors Get to Work

John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | April 14, 2009

It is absolutely amazing to watch the unfolding saga the moment a real patient enters real data into Google Health from his hospital’s medical records. The way the marketing folks tell us, this is a seamless exercise that gets you up and running on personal health records (PHRs) like Google Health instantly. The reality, as [...]