Two decades ago, some of the biggest names in tech attempted to transform how individuals manage their health data. Microsoft’s HealthVault and Google Health both launched with bold ambitions: to ...

Study findings suggest racial and ethnic minority patients and low-income patients have low adoption rates of personal health records, according to research published in the Archives of Internal ...

BOSTON — Personal health records may attain greater consumer acceptance with consumers than electronic health records, said Robert Burg, vice president, business development, Medem, West Chester, Pa.

Personal health records are a method of storing and accessing health information online, and while big-name companies like Google and Microsoft are behind the largest of these data stores, adoption of ...

Today, backed by giants like Google and Microsoft, "personal health records" are finding a place in the spotlight. PHRs--web-based health records maintained by patients--are being touted as a means of ...

Seventy-nine percent of U.S. veterans who use the Department of Veterans Affairs’ personal health record system are interested in sharing access to their PHR with someone outside their health system, ...

Two thousand years ago, physicians in Egypt documented their patients’ symptoms and treatments on papyrus scrolls. These early medical records served a simple, localized purpose: they supported direct ...