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. 2015 May;36(3):121-7.
doi: 10.4082/kjfm.2015.36.3.121. Epub 2015 May 22.

Establishing a Personal Health Record System in an Academic Hospital: One Year's Experience

Hyun Jung Ro  1 , Se Young Jung  2 , Keehyuck Lee  3 , Hee Hwang  4 , Sooyoung Yoo  5 , Hyunyoung Baek  5 , Kiheon Lee  2 , Woo Kyung Bae  6 , Jong-Soo Han  6 , Sarah Kim  2 , Hwayeon Park  2
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Establishing a Personal Health Record System in an Academic Hospital: One Year's Experience

Hyun Jung Ro et al. Korean J Fam Med. 2015 May.

Abstract

Background: Personal health records (PHRs) are web based tools that help people to access and manage their personalized medical information. Although needs for PHR are increasing, current serviced PHRs are unsatisfactory and researches on them remain limited. The purpose of this study is to show the process of developing Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (SNUBH)'s own PHR system and to analyze consumer's use pattern after providing PHR service.

Methods: Task force team was organized to decide service range and set the program. They made the system available on both mobile application and internet web page. The study enrolled PHR consumers who assessed PHR system between June 2013 and June 2014. We analyzed the total number of users on a monthly basis and the using pattern according to each component.

Results: The PHR service named Health4U has been provided from June 2013. Every patient who visited SNUBH could register Health4U service and view their medical data. The PHR user has been increasing, especially they tend to approach via one way of either web page or mobile application. The most frequently used service is to check laboratory test result.

Conclusion: For paradigm shift toward patient-centered care, there is a growing interest in PHR. This study about experience of establishing and servicing the Health4U would contribute to development of interconnected PHR.

Keywords: Electronic Health Records; Patient-Centered Care; Personal Health Records.

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CONFLICT OF INTEREST: No potential conflict of interest relevant to this article was reported.

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1. System architecture of Health4U. Mobile DMZ, Mobile Demilitarized Zone; JSON, JavaScript Object Notation; COM+, Component Object Model; HSF, Healthcare Service Framework; IIS, Internet Information Services; WCF, Windows Communication Foundation; SNUBH EMR DB (Oracle 11 g), Seoul National University Bundang Hospotal Electronic Medical Record DataBase (Oracle 11 g); DB, database.
Figure 2
Figure 2. Screenshot from Health4U main webpage. The webpage includes information about visit history, health record book, laboratory test results, medication information, medication alarms, vaccination history, and education video clips. PHR, personal health record.
Figure 3
Figure 3. Users' methods of accessing Health4U.
Figure 4
Figure 4. Service item access patterns among users who used Health4U 3 or more times (mean).
Figure 5
Figure 5. Number of Health4U users between June 2013 and June 2014.
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