Personal Health Records – A new way to reduce your healthcare costs

Using a personal health record may reduce healthcare costs because many of the money spent on healthcare go towards acquiring the data needed to properly diagnose and treat. With the passage of the Health Reform Act, which will extend healthcare coverage to a further 32 million people by 2019, more patients will be establishing new doctors/patient relationships and the flow of health information will likely to increase exponentially.

Although in recent years, it has been a urged for doctors to buy and use electronic health record programs to manage patient health data, hoping that there will be a centralized database of patient health data that minimizes errors in treatment, in fact, most physicians have not adopted this technology, and although most did, due to differences in practice styles and documentation, a central database would not contain all the data updated in real-time to meet the health needs of each patient in any health situation. Therefore, the best health information repository is you and your personal health.

A scenario illustrating the cost of generating and exchanging medical data is the initial visit of new patients to establish a doctor/patient relationship. A physician who sees a patient during an initial meeting needs historical information that often does not exist because the patient is not knowledgeable and/or because the previous treatment records were not requested, requested but not received, or requested and received, but illegible. The new doctor will often need approximate dates for diagnosis, approximate dates, and preliminary results and approximate dates of hospitalization with some details of the treatment that has been given. If that information is unavailable, some doctors will order tests that otherwise would not be able to order if they had the necessary information at the time of the patient's visit. The net result is an additional expense for the patient or at least another whip in the spiral wheel of health costs.

A personal health record could therefore also reduce health costs during follow-up or sick visits because a personalized personal health record software program allows the patient to create pre-visit notes and quick notes about new issues and existing problems, which can be printed and taken to the doctor at the time of the visit. Additionally, updating the entries in the personal health record the patient tends to be even better prepared to answer questions that will be presented during an upcoming visit to the doctor.

The implementation and maintenance of a personal health record in principle should reduce healthcare costs not only at the time of new patient visits but also during patient visits by shifting the diagnostic accent from the objective data to subjective data and reducing the number of visits required. Constraining healthcare costs by using a personal health record is based on the principle of the most efficient generation and the exchange of accurate health information.

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