Personal Health Records Consider the PHRs of today. Patient-accessible health records are currently web-based and have seen little consumer use when compared to the total U.S. population. The VA has had notable success with its veterans logging on; however, other web-based portals have struggled. GoogleHealth, a free PHR site, shut its services down effective January of 2012 citing too few and inconsistent users to maintain the site.
NURS8210 Week 9 Discussion – Personal Health Records nursing assignment help
- Reflect on the information presented in the Learning Resources, focusing on personal health records and patient portals as used by the VA.
- Consider your personal and professional experiences with personal health records and patient portals.
- What benefits, concerns, and challenges do these types of systems bring to the health care profession? How might they influence your professional practice and your patient’s health outcomes?
- Explore one patient portal. If you do not have access to one through your practice setting, utilize a free service such as FollowMyHealth https://www.followmyhealth.com/ or Microsoft HealthVault https://www.healthvault.com/en-us/.
- Assess the kind of information that you would put in your own personal health record. What concerns (if any) would you have about the security of your personal information in a personal health record?
- Think about your stance on the value of PHRs. Do you believe that every individual should be required to maintain a PHR?
- What capabilities and/or features might entice people to use them?
- What factors might inhibit people from using them?
- Appraise your selected personal health patient portal.
- Evaluate the influence of PHRs on health care delivery and clinical practice.
- Take a position for or against mandating PHRs. Justify your stance addressing the following points:
- Personal health records via patient portals are part of Meaningful Use 2 and the debate over mandating them is essentially over.
- What capabilities and/or features might motivate individuals to maintain PHRs?
- What factors may deter individuals from signing up for this service?
- What concerns might you and your patients have about a PHR’s capability to securely maintain personal information?
- How might PHRs influence your professional practice and your patients’ health outcomes, positively or negatively?
- Ask a probing question, substantiated with additional background information, evidence, or research.
- Share an insight from having read your colleagues’ postings, synthesizing the information to provide new perspectives.
- Offer and support an alternative perspective using readings from the classroom or from your own research in the Walden Library.
- Validate an idea with your own experience and additional research.
- Make a suggestion based on additional evidence drawn from readings or after synthesizing multiple postings.
- Expand on your colleagues’ postings by providing additional insights or contrasting perspectives based on readings and evidence.
| Criteria for Week 8 DQ | Level I Heading |
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The Patient Portal |
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The Influence of PHR’s on Health Care Delivery |
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Personal Health Records The following are Level II Headings 3a. Meaningful Use Debate 3b. Motivation 3c. Deterrents 3d. Securing Personal Information 3e. Influence over Health Outcomes |
- APA does not allow a Level I heading “Introduction” for your introductory paragraph
- Use the Level I headings provided for you below including an introduction and summary or conclusion
- Remove the Criteria # from the Level I headings before you post to the classroom
- All DQ responses must be in Times New Roman 12pt font