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Hospital gives patients personal health record software
NEWS IN BRIEF — Posted April 17, 2006
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital announced March 28 that it is giving CD-ROMs containing online personal health records software to 100,000 patients at no cost, enabling them to create personal health records that they can share with physicians and other clinicians.
In addition to containing PHR software from CapMed, a division of Bio-Imaging Technologies Inc., the CD-ROMs also will connect users to the Philadelphia-based hospital's online resources, trigger reminders and provide age-specific health management guidelines. The hospital also will give the CD-ROM to anyone who requests it in response to an advertising campaign it will launch in local newspapers and on its Web site.
Note: This item originally appeared at http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2006/04/17/bibf0417.htm.