Personal Health Information Networks (PHIN) are the latest trend in the field of Electronic Health Records (EHR).
The concept itself is really simple: given that aligning all the interested parties in the healthcare process to come up with solid standard-based and portable electronic health records is going to take too long (see this and this), why not make it easier by skipping all those agents and having the patient be the manager of the system?
This idea is what underpins the development of several importan projects in the healthcare information sector. Big players from the technology sector (and I mean very big) are scrambling to get their systems ready:
The concept itself is really simple: given that aligning all the interested parties in the healthcare process to come up with solid standard-based and portable electronic health records is going to take too long (see this and this), why not make it easier by skipping all those agents and having the patient be the manager of the system?
This idea is what underpins the development of several importan projects in the healthcare information sector. Big players from the technology sector (and I mean very big) are scrambling to get their systems ready:
- Google Health, from Google Inc.
- HealthVault, from Miscrosoft Corp.
- Dossia, from Intel, WalMart and AT&T.
All of them share several important features like patient-controlled information submittal and retrieval, healthcare-provider search, health advice and information, etc.
I recommend this analysis of current and future efforts in PHINs by Vince Kuraitis and David C. Kibbe.
I recommend this analysis of current and future efforts in PHINs by Vince Kuraitis and David C. Kibbe.
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