Portable Digital Personal Health Record: To Bridge the Digital gap in Medical Information Storage of Individuals with Personal Health Records in Flash Drives

摘要

The burgeoning awareness for the need for an optimum, easy accessible medical record in the past several years has resulted in upsurge in activity around the early adoption of electronic medical records among physicians and consumers. Several studies document that medical errors could be significantly reduced by utilization of digital medical records which further reinforces their necessity in modern health care industry. While digital records could provide significant benefits to the consumers, yet there is no standardized or user friendly solution in the market available today for the wide adoption of this technology. This review briefly focuses of some of the benefits of portable digital health record and the need for development of novel portable digital personal health records.