Medical professional's perspective on Web based Personal Health record in India

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Medical professional's perspective on Web based Personal Health record in India

Vikas Gaur

Author Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychiatry, NIMS Medical College, NIMS University, Jaipur, INDIA

Int. Res. J. Medical Sci., Volume 1, Issue (11), Pages 23-28, December,28 (2013)

Abstract

To conduct a detailed evaluation of a web based personal health record from the medical professional’s point of view. This study was conducted in Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan state in India. Study group consisted of 30 doctors. Majority of the participants were specialists in various fields of medical and surgical branches working in hospitals and a medical college. Participants were approached and solicited based on certain inclusion and exclusion criteria and were asked to evaluate the Google Health and fill the appropriate questionnaires. A descriptive statistical approach was used for the analysis of data collected in this research. Participants voiced their concerns regarding the 'Privacy', 'Security' and 'Trust' related issues as well as the issues related to 'computer literacy' and 'Internet access' but overall all of the participants were very much satisfied with the usefulness of the PHR used in the study. Personal Health Records can prove to be very important tool in delivering quality healthcare in India. As the supporting evidence of specific benefits for PHR adoption in Indian users is virtually nonexistent, further research is needed in this domain and which should include all the stakeholders including patients as well as other healthcare professionals.

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[ref1] Dean F., Sittig: Personal health records on the internet: a snapshot of the pioneers at the end of the 20th Century, I. J. Medical Informatics, 65(1), 1-6 (2002)

[ref2] Markle Foundation, Connecting for Health: A Public-Private Collaborative. The Personal Health Working Group Final Report. July 1, 2003, Available at: http://www.markle.org/downloadable_assets/final_phwg_report1.pdf (2003)

[ref3] Buettner K. and Fadem S.Z., The internet as a tool for the renal community, Adv Chronic Kidney Dis. 2008 Jan; 15(1), 73-82 (2008)

[ref4] Paul C., Tang MD, MS, Joan S. Ash, PHD, David W. Bates, MD, J. Marc Overhage, MD, PHD, Daniel Z. Sands, MD, MPH (2006), Personal Health Records: Definitions, Benefits, and Strategies for Overcoming Barriers to Adoption, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 13(2)(2006)

[ref5] Kupchunas W.R., Personal health record: new opportunity for patient education, Orthop Nurs., 2007 26(3), 185-91, quiz 192-3 (2007)

[ref6] Segall N., Saville J.G., L’Engle P., Carlson B., Wright M.C. and Schulman K, et al. Usability Evaluation of a Personal Health Record, AMIA Annu Symp Proc., 1233–42 (2011)

[ref7] Matthew J. Witry, PharmD; William R. Doucette, PhD; Jeanette M. Daly, PhD; Barcey T. Levy, PhD, MD; and Elizabeth A. Chrischilles, PhD. Family Physician Perceptions of Personal Health Records, Perspect Health Inf Manag, 1;7:1d (2010)

[ref8] Kirsten Peters, M.S. Michael Niebling M.S. Cassandra Slimmer, B.S. Thomas Green, M.S. Jayson M. Webb, Ph.D. Robert Schumacher, Ph.D., Usability Guidance for Improving the User Interface and Adoption of Online Personal Health Records. User Centric, Inc. February 2009. www.UserCentric.com [ 10 July 2009] (2009)

[ref9] Kevin T. Fuji, Kimberly A Galt, Pharm D, Alexandra B Serocca. Personal Health Record Use by Patients as Perceived by Ambulatory Care Physicians in Nebraska and South Dakota: A Cross-Sectional Study, Perspect Health Inf Manag., 15 (2008)

[ref10] Donald W. Simborg, The Limits of Free Speech: The PHR Problem, J Am Med Inform Assoc, 2009; 16, 282-283 (2009)

[ref11] Khin Win, Goran Selakovic, Evaluative Study of Web Based Personal Health Record System, Proceedings of the twelfth CollECTeR Workshop on eCommerce: CollECTeR 2004, Flinders University/University of South Australia, Adelaide, S A, Australia, pp.CD Rom (2004)

[ref12] Jacob J., Consumer access to health care information: its effect on the physician-patient relationship, Alaska Med., 44(4), 75-82 (2002)

[ref13] Mark A. Earnest, MD, PhD, Stephen E. Ross, MD, Loretta Wittevrongel, BA, Laurie A. Moore, MPH and Chen-Tan Lin, MD, Use of a Patient-Accessible Electronic Medical Record in a Practice for Congestive Heart Failure: Patient and Physician Experiences, J Am Med Inform Assoc., 11, 410-417 (2004)