Critical Thinking Exercise 68: Researching the PHR You will need access to the I

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Critical Thinking Exercise 68: Researching the PHR You will need access to the Internet to complete this exercise. Step 1 Start your web browser. Listed below are six PHR web sites. Additionally, your local hospital, health insurance plan, or certain government programs may also offer PHR that you may use for this exercise. Select at least two sites to use for your will research www.google.com/health www.myphr.com www.mymediconnect.net www.webmd.com/phr www.healthvault.com www.ihealthrecord.org g the Internet to Expedite Patient Care

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I choose to compare www.healthvault.com and www.webmd.com/phr.

www.healthvault.com

1.Who owns - Microsoft

2.for profit corporation

3.Its a storehouse for personal health information mainly for business purposes (hospitals,pharmacies and laboratories).It provides services to individual patients and physicians too.Operating mainly in US. recently, expandanded to UK too. The individual needs to create an account with multiple user accesability. Can log in using Facebook /windows live id or limited open accounts till may 31st.After that the company is planning to come up with a 2 step verification procedure using password and contact method.

It enables the individual to share a selected data or entire health record.The application can use only the data for which the individual has given permission to access during the 1st use.

  

4.Better dealing with security concerns.

It allows exchange of data and health between selected devices (such as blood pressure monitors, heart rate watches) into an individual's HealthVault record. It suggests the apps that helps to maintain the fitness depending on individual health and do the needful settings(microsoft band,my fitness pal).

5. mostly the people used to technology and who give importance to self care and help benefit better.

www.webmd.com/phr

1. this is linked to webMD Health Services and is owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts except chinese version of webmd.

2.Its a profit motive corporation

3.It suggests the users mainly individual patients or physicians about the further options available including giving more insight on the diagnosis of the disease, further laboratory tests required and details about the various drugs available in the market(including drug name, uses,indications,doses,side effects, contraindications, when to alert the physician) to treat a particular condition. Most accepted online site for health.URAC, the Utilization Review Accreditation Commission checks for proper disclosures and health content to security and privacy.

4.Advantages-publishes content regarding health and health care topics, including a symptom checklist, pharmacy information, drugs information, and blogs of physicians with specific topics, and provides a place to store personal medical information. publish WebMD the Magazine a patient-directed publication.It provides private health management programs and benefit decision-support portals to employers,employees and health plans.

5.Ease of use - More user friendly.Simple language.connecting links are not complicated. We can see the customized version of the same topic for physicians in their language and or a common man in their way.Its a one stop site for all health related read.

Comparitively webmd -PHR seems better to microsoft healthvault considering individual patient and physicians for the reasons mentioned above. The statistics of acceptance among people shows the same.Webmed is full of information from which patient needs to select.

Regarding privacy settings of the record healthvault seems better.

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