PHRs and Patient Control in the New England Journal of Medicine

Posted April 17, 2008 by Lygeia Ricciardi

In the New England Journal of Medicine’s April 17th edition, Kenneth Mandl and Isaac Kohane provide an overview of PHRs and their impact on health care delivery and biomedical research. The article, available by subscription is also discussed in the New York Times today. You can also find a thoughtful analysis of it on Mark Frisse’s policy blog (Dr Frisse is the Director of Regional Informatics Programs through the Vanderbilt Center for Better Health and a Professor in the Vanderbilt Department of Biomedical Informatics).

In the same issue, there is also an article by Robert Stenbrook entitled Personally Controlled Online Health Data — The Next Big Thing in Medical Care?