tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4384692836709903146.post5565592024437707061..comments2008-06-18T13:43:09.158-07:00John Halamkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04550236129132159307jhalamka@caregroup.harvard.eduBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4384692836709903146.post-14329644239895340842008-06-18T06:51:00.000-07:002008-06-18T06:51:00.000-07:00You're completely correct. Personal Health Records are only useful if they are linked to great consumer information. For the BIDMC PHR, we offer access to UptoDate Consumer content. Google has provided drug monographs, disease monographs and decision support created by Safe-Med.com all for consumers.John Halamkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04550236129132159307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4384692836709903146.post-30046316905933212562008-06-18T06:17:00.000-07:002008-06-18T06:17:00.000-07:00Hi John,<BR/>I just have one little point to mention on Goal 13.<BR/><BR/>"Encourage patients’ active involvement in their own care as a patient safety strategy.<BR/>13A Define and communicate the means for patients and their families to report concerns about safety and encourage them to do so.<BR/>IS Projects: Patients can access their entire health record via Patientsite, Google Health or Microsoft Healthvault"<BR/><BR/>It is great that patients will have access to their record but it doesn't mean that the will know what everything means within their own record. Lab tests and values as well as various diagnoses are often confusing to patients in the raw form. In addition to making the PHR available through one of those vendors, hospital IT departments, librarians, consumer health professionals, etc. need to look at providing or linking to supplemental patient education info that will help patients understand the things in their medical record. <BR/><BR/>If that information is not there or easily available within the record, patients are just simply going to ask Dr. Google for information which may make them more actively involved but may not help with patient health or safety.The Krafty Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17324848811190322716noreply@blogger.com