ABSTRACT
Personal Health Record (PHR) systems are a set of electronic tools that allow people to access and manage their lifelong health information and make appropriate parts of it available to those who need it [1]. Unlike Clinical EMR systems (in which a patient’s medical history is maintained by care providers), in a PHR system, the data is entered, edited, forwarded to others by each individual for himself/herself. Also note that PHR is different from the Patient Portals, which allow the patient to view the information contained in an EMR system of a healthcare provider.
