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Aligning Online Personal Records With Consumer-Driven Care

Personal health records are modernizing medical recordkeeping by allowing consumers to go online to create, organize and control records about their health history.

Not surprisingly, larger employers, such as Verizon Communications, Inc., IBM, Dell, Inc. and Pepsi-Cola North America, are starting to provide their workers with access to PHR systems containing health claim data. They hope the service will help workers keep better track of their health and make better health care choices.

Industry insiders applaud the measure, but point out that PHR technology is still in its nascent stages, and few systems actually connect to electronic health records maintained by doctors and hospitals. Nevertheless, proponents point out that PHRs allow patients to provide health care providers with a comprehensive medical history.

To read this article in its entirety click on Employee Benefit News, Nov 2006

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