Towards Intelligent Personal Health Record Systems: Review, Criteria and Extensions

Abstract

Personal health record (PHR) systems are a constantly evolving area in the field of health information technology which motivates an ongoing research towards their evaluation in several different aspects. In this direction, we present an evaluation study on PHR systems that provides an insight on their current status with regard to functional and technical capabilities and we present our extensions to a specific PHR system. Essentially, we provide a requirement analysis that formulates our composite evaluation model which we use to perform a systems review on numerous available solutions. Then, we present our development efforts towards an intelligent PHR system.