“Laura Landro’s article on online records in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal raises many good points, including the message that electronic medical records can be an effective tool for patient engagement, in addition to providing support to healthcare providers.
From the Project HealthDesign perspective, however, the article could have gone further. Ideally, health information should be flowing both ways—from providers to patients, and vice versa. Patient generated data falls into a couple of categories. The first is data of the sort providers already have in their records—measures of, say blood sugar levels or blood pressure that can be generated by a patient through a wearable or other device that is outside of the provider’s office. It’s desirable to integrate this kind of data into a provider’s record because it shows a more continuous and accurate picture of an individual’s health than just the readings taken during brief and sporadic appointments.”
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Lygeia Ricciardi, Project HealthDesign Blog, 19 March 2009
