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: HIPAA BlogPHRs get patients involved
By Jeffery P. Drummond
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PHRs Get Patients Involved in Their Own Care: This makes sense, and is one of the good reasons why increased use and access of personal health records (as opposed to electronic medical records or electronic health records*, which are the records in doctors' offices and hospitals) is a good thing. In addition to personal portability (the Hurricane Katrina experience) and ease of remembering (ifFull post as published by HIPAA Blog on March 18, 2009 (boomark / email).
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