Demographic characteristics of Australian health consumers who were early registrants for opt-in personally controlled electronic health records.

CONCLUSION: While e-health has the potential to improve health outcomes and PEHRs the potential to empower consumers to better manage their health and improve their access health services, evidence from this study suggested that some population groups that experience health inequalities (e.g. older people) were underrepresented among registrants for PEHRs. As income, ethnicity and education are major drivers for health disparities in Australia, future research should focus on uptake and use of PEHRs (now the MyHR) from the perspective of these variables. PMID: 28537210 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Health Information Management Journal - Category: Health Management Tags: HIM J Source Type: research