Genetic counselors' current use of personal health records-based family histories in genetic clinics and considerations for their future adoption.

ABSTRACT: Given the widespread adoption of electronic medical records and recent emergence of electronic family history tools, we examined genetic counselors' perspectives on the emerging technology of the personal health record (PHR)-based family history tool that links to an electronic medical record (EMR). Two-hundred thirty-three genetic counselors responded to an on-line survey eliciting current use of electronic family history (EFH) tools and familiarity with PHR-based family history tools. Additionally, after being shown a series of screen shots of a newly developed PHR-based family history tool based on the U.S. Surgeon General's My Family Health Portrait (United States Department of Health and Human Services 2009), participants were surveyed about the perceived usefulness, ease of use, and

SUBMITTER: Widmer C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4882761 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature