Internet-based Personal Health Record: Benefits, Features, and Comparison of MyChart, Zweena Health, and Mymediconnect

Internet-based Personal Health Record
Internet-based Personal Health Record (PHR)
Introduction
Personal Health Record (PHR) is used to collect, share and track recent information concerning
your health or heath of a person under your care. It ensures past information of someone’s health
is available to health care facilities when needed. It saves you money and time of repeating a
medical test and also provides more knowledge and insights to medical officer regarding your
personal health. Some of the advantages of PHR are;
 Availability and readily accessible health records.
 Complete control on how your health information is used, retrieved, assessed and
disclosed.
 PHR contains reliable, accurate and complete information.
The content of PHR depends on healthcare, nature of medication and medical officers, below are
common features of PHR
a) Laboratory reports
b) Consent forms
c) X-rays and imaging reports
d) Physician orders
e) Immunization reports
f) History and physical records
g) Problem list
h) Medication record
Depending on nature of illness, emergency, nature of health facilities attended and the physician
the content of Personal Health Record will differ. It is therefore important for every individual to
have PHR, for better and cheaper treatment.
Methodology
To identify which internet based Personal Health Record is appropriate and which functionality
to consider while choosing PHR. Secondary data were used from MYPHR (2018). The research
used simple random sampling, which ensure every PHR tool have chance of being chosen. The
tools were internet based both free web based tools and for purchased which are Mychart tool,
ZweenaHealth tool and Mymediconnect tool. Data visualization tools were used to analyze and
summarized the data. That is graphical methods.
Result and discussion
Taha et al. (2013), listed five functions of PHR which are
 Patient – provider communication
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