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Article: Implementing EHRs requires a shift in thinking: PHRs--the building blocks of EHRs--may be the quickest path to the fulfillment of disease management.(Disease Management)(electronic health records )(patient-controlled personal health record )
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- Health Management Technology
- Article date:
- June 1, 2006
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During the past 20 years, physicians have seen amazing advancements in technology and have witnessed their beneficial impact on the health and the lives of hundreds of patients. They have also seen the amazing impact that sound information can have on a patient's health and on the decisions made regarding that patient's care. While society as a whole has never been more connected, more integrated, more technologically advanced or more global, healthcare still has some fairly old-fashioned mores that must be challenged and reshaped to truly advance electronic health records (EHRs) on a large and sustainable scale.
Physicians have for so long been the ones in ...