An analysis of free Web-based PHRs functionalities and I18n

Author

Fernandez-Aleman, Jose Luis ; Seva Llor, Carlos Luis ; Ouhbi, Sofia ; Toval, Ambrosio ; Carrion, I.

Author_Institution

Res. Group of Software Eng., Univ. of Murcia, Murcia, Spain

fYear

2012

fDate

Aug. 28 2012-Sept. 1 2012

Firstpage

1282

Lastpage

1285

Abstract

The growth of the Internet, Web technologies, and other electronic tools are allowing the public to become more informed and actively engaged in their health care than was possible in the past. Personal Health Records (PHR) offer users possibility of managing their own health data. Many patients are using PHRs to communicate with doctors in order to improve healthcare quality and efficiency. A large number of companies have emerged to provide consumers with the opportunity to use online PHRs within a healthcare platform, proposing different functionalities and services. This paper analyzes and assesses the functionalities and internationalization (i18n) of free Web based PHRs.

Keywords

Internet; health care; medical information systems; Internet; Web-based PHR; electronic tool; health care; health data management; healthcare quality; internationalization; personal health record; Facebook; History; Laboratories; Medical services; Systematics; Twitter; Electronic Health Records; Health Records, Personal; Humans; Internet;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2012 Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4119-8

Electronic_ISBN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EMBC.2012.6346172

Filename

6346172