title: Implications of the mature personal health record for the empowered consumer.
abstract: The purpose of this paper is to present a future scenario projecting a fully developed, i.e., mature, personal health record (MPHR) that is instrumental in linking health care services delivery with preventive and wellness activities to provide informed and responsive consumer-driven health care. The legal-regulatory, institutional management, socio-cultural and technological challenges to implementation are discussed to guide future policy development in this area. We conclude that the potential pay-offs for enhancing the individual's health and well-being and protecting and sustaining the public's health overall is worth a considerable investment in policy analysis, technological R&amp;D, partnership building and the expenditure of political capital by influential advocates and decision makers.
authors: College of Public Health and Health Informatics, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. RohrerW@ngha.med.sa
authors: Wesley
authors: W
authors: Rohrer
authors: Mowafa S
authors: MS
authors: Househ
mesh_terms: D003256:Community Participation; D003258:Consumer Behavior; D057286:Electronic Health Records; D055991:Health Records, Personal; D011209:Power, Psychological; D014584:User-Computer Interface