title: Concepts for a personal health record.
abstract: Healthcare is about information. It is usually assumed that personal health information exists primarily for professional's use but well informed patients motivate better informed professionals. A longitudinal health record containing a patient's medical history has been the holy grail of healthcare. Personal Electronic Health Records (P-EHR) hold the potential to transform healthcare by providing a complete set of patient managed information. We present a portable P-EHR's functionalities from the patient's perspective.
authors.affiliation: Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal. jcandido@isec.pt
authors.forename: Cândido
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Santos
authors.forename: Tiago
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Pedrosa
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Costa
authors.forename: José Luis
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Oliveira
mesh_terms: D003628:Database Management Systems; D057286:Electronic Health Records; D055991:Health Records, Personal; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D008498:Medical Record Linkage; D011174:Portugal; D014584:User-Computer Interface