Mobile health apps have brought in a revolutionary change in the medical field with its broad range of facilities. These apps are a bit different for EMR software. These apps have integrated a broader perspective to the medical approach on both sides, from practitioners as well as patients. The mobile apps are designed for smart phones and tablets, which are handy devices.

A Personal health record (PHR) or patient portal is an electronic health record which belongs to the patient. This record consists of the patient’s health data and information in relation to the care that they get from physicians. Unlike the EMR kept by some doctors, healthcare facilities and insurance companies, the patient choses the contents of the PHR and further determines how it is stored.

Having an affordable way of managing your personal health is really appealing, more so when it is free. Patient Ally PHR is not only Internet based, but is also a completely free Personal Health Record Management system.

This software solution enables you to:

• Communicate with your health care providers online

Via a new web site called myNYP.org, consumers and patients can not only view their medical records, but they can also move and store them where they have complete access. myNYP.org is a free web-based health record. The website offers free services to NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center patients. It uses Microsoft's HealthVault and Amalga technologies to store data.

Minerva Health Manager Personal Edition is a PHR software solution. But it is not your regular software. It is a comprehensive health management tool that can be used from one generation to another. Personal Health Records enable patients to not only have access to their medical records, but also manage these health records.

Yet another way for practitioners to fulfil one of the meaningful use requirements. Patient Fusion PHR platform allows practitioners to give patients free online access to their health information to securely view diagnoses, immunizations and prescriptions. This is good to hear.

PHR or Personal Health Record is essentially a medium of saving health information of an individual that helps the diagnostic process of healthcare providers and aids individuals in providing their he

When Google Health was launched, it was largely expected that such a user-friendly service from Google would have unprecedented succes

Microsoft HealthVault PHR is sure to offer great help to individuals who need to take a quick peek on their health information no matter where they are.

Epic MyChart PHR is one of the most undemanding ways of managing medical records and process healthcare information. This EMR application seems to have the answers for every aspect of going paperless in the healthcare niche. It also ensures greater accessibility, i.e. healthcare information of a facility can be accessed by its registered members (both patients and physicians) via their mobiles.