Keyose Blog - Personal Health Records

The most important professional medical journal in the world (New England Journal of Medicine) talks about Personal Health Records in its last number.

Most physicians in the United States have paper medical records — the sort that doctors have kept for generations. A minority have electronic records that provide, at a minimum, tools for writing progress notes and prescriptions, ordering laboratory and imaging tests, and viewing test results (see line graph).¹ Yet electronic health data are poised for an online transformation that is being catalyzed by Dossia (a nonprofit consortium of major employers), Google Health, Microsoft HealthVault, and other Web services [as Keyose] that are seeking expanded roles in the $2.1 trillion U.S. health care system.

There are several concerns about privacy not only within patients but also within doctors. Keyose is the only anonymous Personal Health Record. Not only for USA, but for the worldwide (spanish and catalan versions available, and italian and german versions on development).

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