Looking after seniors in the family with PHR

Personal Health Records contain a set of medical information that includes physicial check-ups and appointments, medications, lab results, and general health information. Through advanced electronic personal health record software, healthcare alerts provide timely reminders for evidence based treatments or tests whenever they are due. For seniors who commonly have chronic conditions that require careful adherence to treatment regimens and who take many prescription drugs, these alerts are invaluable for keeping up with such schedules.

For example, if a patient has a chronic disease like coronary artery disease or diabetes, an alert notifies the physician and member when the patient is due to receive the proper treatments.

Another advantage of electronic health records is that they will allow doctors to know what medications patients are taking and whether they have any history of allergies which is very important when more than one physician is involved.

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