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Personal Medical Records
Also called: Electronic Health Records, Patient Health Record, Personal Health Record
You've probably seen your chart at your doctor's office. In fact, you may have charts at several doctors' offices. If you've been in the hospital, you have a chart there, too. To keep track of all this information, it's a good idea to keep your own records.
What kind of information would you put in a personal health record? You could start with
- Your name, birth date, blood type and emergency contact
- Date of last physical
- Dates and results of tests and screenings
- Major illnesses and surgeries, with dates
- A list of your medicines, dosages and how long you've taken them
- Any allergies
- Any chronic diseases
- Any history of illnesses in your family
Start Here
- Your Personal Health Information: A Guided Tour(American Health Information Management Association)
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Overviews
- Personal Health Records: FAQs(American Health Information Management Association)
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Specific Conditions
- Common Privacy Myths(American Health Information Management Association)
- Confidentiality(American Psychiatric Association)
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Privacy and Your Health Information(Dept. of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights) - Links to PDF
Also available in Spanish
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Related Issues
- Creating a Health Journal(American Academy of Family Physicians)
- Information for Caregivers(American Health Information Management Association)
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Letting Your Personal Health Information Be Used and Shared for Research
(National Institutes of Health)
- Starting a Personal Health Record(American Health Information Management Association)
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Videos
- Video on Personal Health Records(Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)
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Journal Articles
References and abstracts from MEDLINE/PubMed (National Library of Medicine)
- Article: Openness, not privacy. Web site promotes sharing disease successes, hardships.
- Article: Stay out of my EMR. Privacy issues are dominating the...
- Article: The personal health record: consumers banking on their health.
- Personal Medical Records -- see more articles
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Law and Policy
- HIPAA Basic Facts(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
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How to File a Health Information Privacy Complaint with the Office for Civil Rights(Dept. of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights)
Also available in Spanish
- Notice of Privacy Practices for the Original Medicare Plan(Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services)
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Your Health Information Privacy Rights(Dept. of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights) - Links to PDF
Also available in Spanish
- Your Health Information Rights(American Health Information Management Association)
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Date last updated: 02 July 2008 Topic last reviewed: 02 July 2008 |