Personal Health Record implementation in rural primary care: A descriptive exploratory study using RE-AIM framework.

ABSTRACT: Demand is emerging for personal health records (PHRs), a patient-centric digital tool for engaging in shared decision-making and healthcare data management. This study uses a RE-AIM framework to explore rural patients and providers' perceptions prior to and following implementation of a PHR. Health care providers and their patients were recruited from early-adopter patient medical home clinics and a local patient advisory group. Focus groups were used to explore patient and provider pre-implementation perceptions of PHRs and post-implementation provider perspectives. Patients were invited through participating clinics to use the PHR. An implementation process evaluation was conducted. Multiple methods and data sources were used and included pre-/post-intervention patient surveys, provider

SUBMITTER: Davis S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11207137 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature