My Family Health Portrait: A Family PHR
The Surgeon General has launched a new online tool allowing a user to create an electronic family health tree to track your family health history. The site is called a href=”https://familyhistory.hhs.gov/fhh-web/home.action””My Family Health Portrait.”/a The Surgeon General a href=”http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2009pres/01/20090113a.html”press release/a.br /br /The tool draws on the value of creating a family health genealogy and marries it with the concepts of PHRs. The tool states, “using My Family Health Portrait you can:br /ulliEnter your family health history./liliCreate drawings of your family health history to share with family or health care worker./liliUse the health history of your family to create your own./li/ulThe new site lets users create and download their health information into their own computers and e-mail a tree-in-progress to family members to fill in missing health history information. The site also allows a user to “reindex” the tree to include any person in the tree as the center of information. For example I can create a health tree for my family but by sending it to one of my sisters or cousins who adds to the health information tree that person can then reindex the site to look at their health history and potential health risks.br /br /According to the […]
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