Physicians are the key to helping patients create and manage their personal records. That's what we believe at MedLink International and thats what makes our personal health record solution so differnet.......it encourages the sharing of information between doctor and patient with the goal of, what the American College of Physicians and the American Academy of Family Physicians have called a collaborative effort in bringing patient Health Records, Electronic Medical Records and other technologies into the Office to support an ongoing patient-physician relationship.

The Department of Health and Human Services encourages the use of Personal Health Records(PHRs):"Once equipped with the information about their health and health care choices, consumers will be empowered to co-manage their health and participate actively in decisions about thier care."

Personal health record systems are more than just static repositories for patient data; they combine data, knowledge, and software tools which helps pateints to become acitve participants in their own care.

When PHR's are integrated with a physician's helath record systems, they provide for greater benefits than stand-alone systems for consumers.

Some of the benefits of Personal Health Records are:

• Improved Quality of Care. Patient information would be readily available for clinicians at the point of care and would help patients improve their own care.
• Improved patient-provider relationship. PHRs improve communication between patients and clinicians, allow documentation of interactions with patients and convey timely explanations of test results.
• Cost Savings.Improved documentation and more efficient exchanges of information between doctor and patientcan reduce operating costs as well as malpractice premiums.