Overview: Personal Health Records – Current Landscape and Future Visions

Overview: Personal Health Records – Current Landscape and Future Visions: "Indeed, the power of a personal health record lies in its potential to be coupled with alerts, reminders and other decision-support tools that help people take action to improve their health or manage their conditions. From this perspective, the personal health record can be seen as part of a broader personal health record system. Health care and technology pioneers are beginning to develop solutions that harness the power of PHRs to create consumer-friendly tools people can use in their daily life to stay healthy and better manage illness."