Integrated, reliable and cloud-based personal health record: a scoping review.

Personal Health Records (PHR) emerge as an alternative to integrate patient’s health information to give a global view of patients' status. However, integration is not a trivial feature when dealing with a variety electronic health systems from healthcare centers. Access to PHR sensitive information...

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Main Author: Romero, Jesús (author)
Other Authors: López, Pablo (author), Vázquez Noguera, José Luis (author), Cappo Araújo, Cristian Ramón (author), Pinto Roa, Diego Pedro (author), Villalba Cardozo, Cynthia Emilia (author)
Format: article
Language:English
Published: 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14066/3581
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Summary:Personal Health Records (PHR) emerge as an alternative to integrate patient’s health information to give a global view of patients' status. However, integration is not a trivial feature when dealing with a variety electronic health systems from healthcare centers. Access to PHR sensitive information must comply with privacy policies defined by the patient. Architecture PHR design should be in accordance to these, and take advantage of nowadays technology. Cloud computing is a current technology that provides scalability, ubiquity, and elasticity features. This paper presents a scoping review related to PHR systems that achieve three characteristics: integrated, reliable and cloud-based. We found 101 articles that addressed thosecharacteristics. We identified four main research topics: proposal/developed systems, PHR recommendations for development, system integration and standards, and security and privacy. Integration is tackled with HL7 CDA standard. Information reliability is based in ABE security-privacy mechanism. Cloud-based technology access is achieved via SOA.