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Why is that despite the presence or more than 200 vendors of PHR products only less than 5 % of the consumers in North America use any PHR.

The main reasons are:

1.Lack of privacy policy

2.Lack of communication between providers and users

3.Lack of education about benefits of PHR.

In the first generation model of PHRs,

Vendors have had a hard time selling the idea of a personal medical diary to healthy consumers who see their doctors maybe once or twice a year. In addition to privacy and security concerns, patients are staying away because the PHRs on the market aren’t doing much to entice them, analysts say. The industry also has failed to come up with a convincing argument for why doctors should encourage their use.

But ,now with the growth of Web 2.0 technology,PHR can developed with next generation models,
Vendors are reaching out to health plans and employers in hopes of encouraging PHR use through incentives. And expanded data sets make the records more useful to physicians.
as PHR vendors add functionalities such as secure e-mailing and online scheduling, more people will create PHRs.

Also the lack of consensus definition about what exactly is PHR is hampering widespread use.Many of the consumers and also vendors assume that PHR ane EHR are one and the same product.While in some aspects they deal with your health record,but in reality they are two different entities all together.

PHR are individually controlled record of your health either in electronic or paper based format.While EHR are your health records controlled by the Hospital or medical center,

The future:

But while there is great hope for the future of PHRs, it remains to be seen what role they will play in transforming health care, even if they gain widespread acceptance among patients.

Many physicians and also patients are still skeptical about the potential benefits of PHR,they feel that it may not deliver the results as projected.Only time will tell,when internet came around in the nineties many thought it was also a passing fad,but today it is part of our life.

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