Personal Medical Record

Free resources from familiar IT giants have been created for collecting personal health information. In most cases these sites currently require that you or someone who you trust update the information regularly. Users can enter prescriptions they are taking, allergy information, family and personal medical history, and information about their condition, medical visits including any test results. These records are intended to be secure places for people to collect information that can be shared across different providers when they choose.

Google: www.google.com/health
Microsoft: www.healthvault.com
WebMD: http://www.webmd.com/phr
Medline Plus: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/personalhealthrecords.html;
The American Health Information Management Association: http://www.myphr.com/

For more information check out the Prepared Patient 411 and this Prepared Patient article titled Taking Charge of Your Health Records
#Sharing" target="_blank">http://www.preparedpatientforum.org/patient411/organizing.cfm#Sharing
http://www.cfah.org/hbns/preparedpatient/Vol2/Prepared-Patient-Vol2-Issue1.cfm Free resources from familiar IT giants have been created for collecting personal health information. In most cases these sites currently require that you or someone who you trust update the information regularly. Users can enter prescriptions they are taking, allergy information, family and personal medical history, and information about their condition, medical visits including any test results. These records are intended to be secure places for people to collect information that can be shared across different providers when they choose.

Google: www.google.com/health
Microsoft: www.healthvault.com
WebMD: http://www.webmd.com/phr
Medline Plus: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/personalhealthrecords.html;
The American Health Information Management Association: http://www.myphr.com/

For more information check out the Prepared Patient 411 and this Prepared Patient article titled Taking Charge of Your Health Records
#Sharing" target="_blank">http://www.preparedpatientforum.org/patient411/organizing.cfm#Sharing
http://www.cfah.org/hbns/preparedpatient/Vol2/Prepared-Patient-Vol2-Issue1.cfm