Personal Health Records

Patient-controlled personal health records are the key to successful interaction between physician and patient. They form the core for joined-up communication throughout health organizations. Still, the very name is capable of alarming both patient and doctor. Are they reliable? Are they complete? Are they confidential? Where do you access them? <p>For the doctor, additional concerns surround the implementation: how do you include these online tools in your busy schedule?</p> <p>How much will they add to your existing spend on information technology?</p> <p>Can you get paid for doing all this extra work?</p> <p>Now you can find dependable answers to all of these questions.</p> <p>Written by a physician who has developed his own personal health records software for patients and doctors to interact, <i>Personal Health Records: A Guide for Clinicians</i> explains how to get the best from your patient’s records and how to put the information to good use, helping both your patient and yourself to a more effective and efficient outcome in any clinical situation.</p> <p> </p> <p><span style=”font-size: small;”><b><span style=”font-family: “Times New Roman”,”serif”; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;”>“The author is a clinical academic, patient and pioneer in his field and does a grand job of explaining the ins and outs of PHRs in a non-patronising manner for the non-tech savvy”</span></b></span></p> <p><span style=”font-size: small;”><span style=”font-family: “Times New Roman”,”serif”; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;”>– From a review published in</span> <span lang=”EN-US”><span style=”font-family: Cambria;”>Health Services Journal</span></span> <span style=”font-family: “Times New Roman”,”serif”; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;”>by: Dr Emma Stanton, Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow and Specialist Registrar at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust</span></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p>