Patient Health Record Systems Scope and Functionalities: Literature Review and Future Directions.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A new generation of user-centric information systems is emerging in health care as patient health record (PHR) systems. These systems create a platform supporting the new vision of health services that empowers patients and enables patient-provider communication, with the goal of improving health outcomes and reducing costs. This evolution has generated new sets of data and capabilities, providing opportunities and challenges at the user, system, and industry levels.

Objective

The objective of our study was to assess PHR data types and functionalities through a review of the literature to inform the health care informatics community, and to provide recommendations for PHR design, research, and practice.

Methods

We conducted a review of the literature to ass

SUBMITTER: Bouayad L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5707430 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature