Patient Generated Health Data

How Do Patient Portals and Personal Health Records Differ?

April 25, 2022 - Patient portals and personal health records (PHRs) are two primary patient engagement technologies enabling patient data access. Still, it can be hard to distinguish between the two. These tools have a lot of overlapping features, leading some healthcare professionals to use the terms interchangeably. But a closer look reveals some subtle differences that are important for keeping...


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Distinguishing Patient Experience, Patient-Reported Outcomes, and PGHD

by Sara Heath

In the era of patient-centered care, it is critical for medical institutions to collect key insights from the patient. Those insights usually include patient experience data, patient-reported outcomes (PROs), and patient-generated health...

What Is Patient-Generated Health Data, Why Is It Important?

by Sara Heath

The regulatory push for better patient data access, coupled with the insurgence of remote patient monitoring technology, has brought to the forefront a key type of health information: patient-generated...