Personal Health Record battle is heating up. From Microsoft to Google
, and also RevolutionHealth (disclosure: I am the engineering manager for the PHR in RevolutionHealth), all trying to figure out a way to create a electronic health record system that can be managed and used by consumer, physicians and hospitals. After working on this product for awhile, I am not sure if we get to the point that we can change consumer behaviors yet. No matter how easy we can make PHR for users to use, it is still extra time that consumers needs to spend on managing it. Consumers need to see great benefits before they are willing to manage their health records online. In fact, consumers probably don’t want to spend time to manage it. They just want to have access to it online. They will not want to import or export data between service providers. Service providers should do that for them.
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February 28th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
I hope your PHR is based on some type of interoperability schema? (i.e. CCR, CCD, etc.) Granted, a healthcare provider being able to view a patient’s current medication list, allergy list, past medical history (etc.) is a big step in the right direction. But the real value of a PHR is the ability to import the data into a EMR/EHR system where the power of computing is realized. For example, being able to check adverse drug events or positive lab results or health maintenance alerts, etc. In order for the PHR to succeed, interoperability has to be at the core of its architecture, otherwise it will never gain traction.