Use of personal health records among healthcare professionals: Nigerian perspective

Abstract

Personal health record (PHR) is a type of records being managed and owned by individuals with information coming both from health care providers and the individual; maintained in a secure environment and access determined by the individual1. Today, an estimated 70 million people in the US have access to some form of PHR1. Hitherto, PHRs was a paper collection of health information kept by the patient2. Some people still keep their health records in print especially in the developing nations2, where general management of patients’’ health records is still paper-based3-5. However, with the advent of electronic health records and access to medical information online, there has been an increasing demand from patients to access their health information electronically2.