Personal health records (PHRs) represent a great opportunity for healthcare consumers to take control of their healthcare data and help deliver many meaningful solutions for managing their health. The problem with the current landscape of solutions is that data is not flowing quickly from healthcare systems into central repositories. When this data is available, it is not being delivered to the healthcare consumer in a meaningful way: It’s not easy-to-use, mobile, easily shared, or present with them when they need it.

While only seven percent of Americans currently have entered their personal health records into one of the many PHR platforms available, that number actually doubled from the year before.

Smartphone access to this information is critical to widespread adoption of PHRs. Once this information can be delivered with these goals in mind, hospitals and other healthcare systems will prioritize the integration of their data into PHRs, and useful tools can be built on top of PHR data to help patients navigate the healthcare landscape, maintain compliance with medication regimens, find and order products and services relevant to their conditions, manage chronic conditions, and facilitate efficiencies through known medical information.
Making PHRs mobile has been a focus of Healthagen over the past several months, which has resulted in an internal development push to release integration with Google Health records on the iTriage mobile application. Earlier this month, Healthagen began offering consumers mobile access for personal health records on Google Health.

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