RT Journal
A1 Rudd P, Frei T
T1 How personal is the personal health record?: Comment on “the digital divide in adoption and use of a personal health record”
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 2011
FD March 28
VO 171
IS 6
SP 575
OP 576
DO 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.35
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2011.35
AB 
In this era of high medical costs, constrained resources, and outcome accountability, the PHR has emerged as a potential organizing principle. The PHR may mean different things to different people. On one extreme, the PHR exists as a provider-centric extension of the electronic medical record that includes a physician-maintained problem list, medication and allergy list, upcoming appointments, and recent test result summary.1 On the other extreme, the PHR may comprise a patient-centric, patient-maintained summary of health-related matters, even specifying advanced directives.2