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The Value of Personal Health Records

Our Position

ER-Card advocate empowering individuals to manage their healthcare through the use of a personal health record (PHR). The PHR is a tool for collecting, tracking and sharing important, up-to-date information about an individual’s health or the health of someone in their care. Using a PHR will help people make better health decisions and improves quality of care by allowing them to access and use information needed to communicate effectively with others about their healthcare.


Basic Principles

Every person is ultimately responsible for making decisions about his or her health.
Every person should have access to his or her complete health information.
Ideally it should be consolidated in a comprehensive record.
Information in the PHR should be understandable to the individual.
Information in the PHR should be accurate, reliable, and complete.
PHRs allows data and secure communication to be shared between a consumer and his or her health care team.
Every person should have control over how their PHR information is accessed, used and disclosed. All secondary uses of PHR data must be disclosed to the consumer, with an option to opt-out, except as required by law.
A PHR may be separate from and does not normally replace the legal medical record of any provider.
Privacy protection of PHR data should follow the data. PHR data must not be used in any discriminatory practices.

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