Private Professional Healthcare Advocate
CurrentAfter spending decades creating, interpreting and collecting medical records, I know just how important it is for patients to have complete access to all of their personal health information, at all times. I believe every person should have a Personal Health Record (PHR), and I use a great tool that allows people (and anyone they give permission to) to retrieve this information from anywhere one can access the Internet, even on their phone! Important summaries can be printed or faxed at the touch of a button.A Personal Health Record can help people to become more involved in their own health and health care, coordinate and combine information from multiple providers, help to ensure patient information is always available (think how important this is in an emergency, while traveling, or when seeing a new physician) and encourages family health management (think of how this could help caregiving for parents of young children, family members of any age with a chronic illness, or elderly parents).When information is accessible and shareable – among family members (even when they live far away), caregivers, medical providers (including case managers), health outcomes are likely to improve, medication mistakes are less likely to happen, and duplicate testing or procedures can be avoided.It’s a win‐win!
