Posts Tagged ‘Diabetes’
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1 Healthcare Consumers: Taking on the Clipboard Nation with PHR Technology
Oct 30, 2009. Health Information Technology, News, PHR.“If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.” – Mario Andretti
Are you going fast enough to catch up in the field of health IT? If clinical medicine putters to adopt health IT, consumers might very well independently surpass it with widespread adoption of personal health records (PHR).
A recent movement for consumer-directed PHR adoption was spearheaded by Howard University in Washington D.C. They encouraged hundreds of patients living with diabetes in the Washington area to adopt an online personal health record (PHR) from NoMoreClipboard.com. The results of this movement have been quite positive, showing consumers are actively using their PHRs to communicate with doctors and manage their diabetes.
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