Impact of an Electronic Health Record-Integrated Personal Health Record on Patient Participation in Health Care: Development and Randomized Controlled Trial of MyHealthKeeper.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Personal health record (PHR)-based health care management systems can improve patient engagement and data-driven medical diagnosis in a clinical setting.

Objective

The purpose of this study was (1) to demonstrate the development of an electronic health record (EHR)-tethered PHR app named MyHealthKeeper, which can retrieve data from a wearable device and deliver these data to a hospital EHR system, and (2) to study the effectiveness of a PHR data-driven clinical intervention with clinical trial results.

Methods

To improve the conventional EHR-tethered PHR, we ascertained clinicians' unmet needs regarding PHR functionality and the data frequently used in the field through a cocreation workshop. We incorporated the requirements into the system design and archi

SUBMITTER: Ryu B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5740264 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature