Is not the same
Because PHRs store sensitive personal health data, it is critical to develop reliable and trustworthy mechanisms to ascertain the identity of anyone accessing the information. Health information has several characteristics that make it even more sensitive than similar access to bank accounts and lines of credit, because someone who loses money through inappropriate access can be made financially whole. Someone who loses control of sensitive health data, by contrast, can never arrange to have that information returned to a purely private sphere. From Connecting for Health