TY - JOUR T1 - How personal is the personal health record?: Comment on “the digital divide in adoption and use of a personal health record” AU - Rudd P, Frei T Y1 - 2011/03/28 N1 - 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.35 JO - Archives of Internal Medicine SP - 575 EP - 576 VL - 171 IS - 6 N2 - 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 SN - 0003-9926 M3 - doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.35 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2011.35 ER -