Having a personal health record is beneficial to help you better manage your care by collecting, tracking and sharing past and/or current health information, if desired. Information such as lab results, immunizations records or even screening due dates. Having access to this information can save you time and money by bypassing labs and procedures that may need to be repeated from lost records. It can also be helpful in times of travel, chronic disease management, care coordination and family health management. In many cases you can review your results before your provider calls you with the information, making it valuable for you to be able to clarify or come up with questions to ask in present time.
Some personal health record systems offer a secure way for you to communicate with your provider over the internet. However, keep in mind those systems that are not secured because sharing information can result in a violation towards the Heath Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA). The federal law mandated that health information is confidential per HIPPA privacy and security requirements.
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