“If we really want to transform health and enable a better quality of life we need to recognize the social and environmental dimension in the lives of each and everyone of us. Consequently the EMR and the PHR need to evolve to embrace this new world.
An EMR that has just Medical information is blinkered as is a PHR that includes just our Personal Health information. We have to add the social and environment data to both.”
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Mark Scrimshire, ekivemark, 29 August 2011
I have been talking (http://www.icmcc.org/category/speeches/), writing (http://blog.icmcc.org) and publishing about this for years: http://www.icmcc.org/pdf/ICMCCSWWS08.pdf.