Hi there!
I studied PHR's in school throughout this year, and it is a wonderful too that everyone needs to build. That being said, you NEED to be very careful about the site's you choose to put your personal information online. This is very risky business, as right now, it is a very new field and not well regulated.
For an emergency situation, it is better advised in the health information field to wear a medical alert bracelet and possibly also a bracelet if you have advance directives. This will help the emergency process.
If it is not an emergency, then you should have along a copy of the paper PHR that you have built at home from the copies of lab, tests, etc. that you have requested from EACH of your doctors and placed in a 3-ring binder. This is helpful, and shows that you care.
If you do feel very comfortable with a online site you have found to build a PHR, go ahead, but make sure to also build a paper PHR as well.
Good luck!
~Sunnytoday~
I would love to take the credit for finding this but it was a link off the American Heart Association page. For heart patients, some of this info can literally mean the difference between life and death -the records need to be straight and complete in case of a cardiac event - time is muscle!
I hope everyone here will take the time to read this and start working on their own PHR.
My best,
Laura
This website is very informative and I can see it being incredibly helpful to many of us. It gives an indication of just how important it is to have all of your Medical Information in a place that is accessible to you and your loved ones.
I would like to thank Laura for making this accessible to all of us. This is your timeline with more information and you can choose how to store your data...be it in a file folder at home to storage sites online.
Personally, I would prefer to have my information within arms reach and I don't know that I am comfortable with giving my medical information to an online storage site but to each their own. This website reminds us of all the doctors that we may have seen over the years and how important some of these records from all doctors and specialists may be.
I think you should all take the time to have a peek at this, I think it will be worth your while!
Again Laura, thanks for the input...we sincerely appreciate the effort you made!
Lots of Hugs,
Rena