Role of Personal Health Record in Our daily Life

Imagine when you are travelling and you are on many medications if you falls sick and you are admitted to an emergency care centre. Your emergency doctor will not know your medical history as you are unconscious or being able to communicate. You will not be able to retrieve your medical information from your previous doctor. It is also technically not possible to retrieve information via fax or e-mail. How will doctors treat you in the best way?

Portable Digital Personal Health Record can play a key role in solving the puzzle. It will provide physicians with immediate access to patient history, including their past medical history, diagnosis, allergies and prescriptions. Doctors can treat these patients immediately without relying on the patient and their ability to communicate or waiting to fax or e-mail to the family doctor.

In today's fragmented health care service, there is no complete record sharing between the different health care centres, especially when you are travelling abroad. These are the situations in which you should bring a personal health record for you and your family with you forever. Paper-based Records are an easy choice, but they have their limits.

There is one factor that distinguishes personal health records in the platform used to deliver it. There are various platforms such as paper, portable devices, the internet and personal computers. Let's look at some of these platforms.

Paper-based PHRs

Paper format is used to record and store your personal health information. This includes your printed lab records, any health history you may have made, and photocopies of notes provided by the clinic. The advantages of this method are that it is reliable, low cost and can be reached without a computer. The disadvantage of using this method is that records can sometimes be difficult to update, share and locate. These records could get lost or damaged particularly in times of a natural calamity.

PC-based PHRs

The personal computer-based software is used to record personal health information. This allows you to easily print, encrypt import data. Creating a backup becomes even easier than paper records. Some PHR products can be easily copied to the mass storage devices such as smart cards, USB flash drives and CD-ROM. The data stored here may be lost if the PC is damaged.

Internet-based PHRs

A web browser can be used to access and modify health information. The advantage of using an Internet-based system is that you can access from anywhere as long as you have an internet connection. The PHR system can be interactive and data in such a system is not on the user's local machine but on a remote server. Backup becomes easier. However personal medical records stored in this way makes it easier for unauthorised people to access it.

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