2. Personal Health Record
• PHR can help your patients better manage their care.
• Having important health information – such as immunization
records, lab results, and screening due dates – in electronic
form makes it easy for patients to update and share their
records
3. Improve Patient Engagement
• Much of what your patients do for their health happens
outside clinical settings.
• When your patients can track their health over time and have
information and tools to manage their health, they can
be more engaged in their health and health care.
4. Reduce Administrative Costs
• Your organization can reduce administrative costs by using
a PHR to provide patients with easy access to electronic
prescription refill and appointment scheduling applications.
• With PHRs, your staff can spend less time searching for
patient-requested information and responding to patient
questions.
5. Encourage Family Health
Management
• Having a system for tracking and updating health care
information can help caregivers – such as those caring for
young children, elderly parents, or spouses – manage your
patients’ care and coordinate with you to improve health care
quality.