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The Tech Giants are Coming for Healthcare

Lloyd Price

Embedded in Apple’s Health app, the new feature will bring together medical data from participating hospitals and clinics, as well as from the iPhone itself, giving millions of Americans direct digital control of their own health information for the first time. But how easy will it actually be?

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How Do Patient Portals and Personal Health Records Differ?

Lloyd Price

The ONC’s definition of a tethered PHR is very similar to the definition that the agency provides for patient portals: A patient portal is a secure online website that gives patients convenient 24-hour access to personal health information from anywhere with an Internet connection. This problem can also occur with patient portals.