Most people do not have medical records when they leave home. They do not know that in the event of an emergency that cannot be foreseen, such documentation could cause a large difference in medical care. In fact, it may save your life. Previous history of Allergy to drugs, medicines and other significant medical or surgical history can help the doctor to optimize treatment. The National Council of health recommends that you register your personal health and take it with you to your doctor. It is one thing to document medical information is not know when and how to use it.
The main components of good personal health record are:
* Your name, date of birth, type of blood and emergency contact
* Date of last physical
* The date and the results of the tests and screenings
* The main diseases and surgical, with dates
* List of medicines, dosage and how long they have been already taken
* Allergies
* All chronic diseases
* All the history of the disease in Your family
Personal health records in paper based format were used from the beginning of modern healthcare. They have several drawbacks are not available quickly during the emergency, the difficulties in sharing these records, security and destruction of vulnerable to physical, as shown in the recent disaster, Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005. These records are also difficult to carry around for the individual during a migration to another medical centre or health care provider.
Although there are different methods for logging one of personal health, personal health record in digital media warehouse mobile are popular because they are beneficial for persons to enable them to maintain their health information in their own computer hard disk or other storage device. In addition, these could include easily accessible for each provider of health care by a person who controls the data.
Management of electronic records of personal health have been developed in recent decades, 2 by several suppliers of software for electronic health. Rapid growth in this sector was noted during the dot-com bubble era.Today, with the development of Web 2.0 on the Internet, is renewed interest in personal health records in an electronic format. Many still unclear personal health Records (POY) and electronic health (EMR).PHRs are different. EMRs are being developed or electronic medical records in hospitals and medical centres, these legal health records are created and stored in your health care and patients do not have any control over these records. They include all patient medical information longitudinal, for some time. Fully functioning EMR is described as such, which contains a repository of data for clinical, controlled medical vocabulary, computer supplier order entry, clinical documentation, or charts, pharmacy management, electronic medication administration record, main auxiliary systems (for example, laboratory, diagnostic imaging, cardiology and etc..) and picture archiving and communication systems (Pacte civil de Solidarité).
However, personal health records, or PHRs are created by individuals and patients can have full control over these records. These may include, in addition to medical information, information about the disease. Models are shrink wrapped as opposed to EMRs. They may also include the full Name of the patient, together with details of the relevant health insurance. Additionally, they may include a record of the disease in a period of time.
Personal health records have a useful role to play in the management of health care. The adoption of technologies will significantly reduce health care costs and improve the effectiveness of the delivery of health care. Over prescription drug duplication of tests and lack of medical information sharing among providers of health care has resulted in increased health care costs in the current era.
Disclaimer: this article is for information purposes only and is in no way intended to replace consultation with a qualified medical. The author encourages Internet users to using information to medical care. If you have certainty about the medical condition, consult a physician.
Mrs. Catherine Collins spent almost a decade of writing topics of health care. Published its work on the management of health care in several leading publications in the online media. Its vision is to help people take care of their health with the help of current technologies.
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