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A Guide to Understanding and Managing Your Personal Health Information: Helpful Links 
This page links to non-profit and government Web sites regarding personal health information.... Details >
Americans Want Benefits of Personal Health Records
Connecting for Health was convened by the Markle Foundation to address the challenges of mobilizing information to empower patients to maintain and improve their health and enable health care provider... Details >
Common Privacy Myths
With the new federal laws protecting the privacy of health information, there has been much confusion and misinformation. This document covers the truths to some of these common myths, including healt... Details >
Connecting Americans to Their Healthcare
This report addresses barriers, emphasizes opportunities, and recommends guidelines for electronic information sharing between patients and clinicians. Specifically, in envisioning a world beyond the ... Details >
Health Record Paradigm Shift: Consumer Health Informatics
This paper addresses a personal health record (PHR) vision and its potential for improving quality, safety, cost, and convenience of healthcare; current progress in implementing electronic health reco... Details >
How Do Providers Manage Your Health Information?
Healthcare providers may keep health information in one of the following formats: paper, microfilm, or electronic. Currently most healthcare providers still manage health records in a paper format. Th... Details >
Starting a Personal Health Record
Keeping a complete, updated, and easily accessible health record means an individual plays a more active role in his/her healthcare. This page is a gateway to learn more about the rationale to start a... Details >
What Does Your Health Record Contain?
The specific content of a health record depends on the type of healthcare one has received. This document lists reports common to most health records and additional reports that accompany hospital sta... Details >
What Is a Health Record?
Every time an individual visits a doctor, hospital, or another healthcare provider, a record of the visit is made. This information is then compiled into what is known as a health record. This documen... Details >
What Should Your PHR Contain?
A personal health record (PHR) is a collection of important information about an individual health or the health of someone who is cared for, such as a parent or a child, which he/she actively maintai... Details >