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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jul 7.
Published in final edited form as: Public Health Nurs. 2010 May-Jun;27(3):263–269. doi: 10.1111/j.1525-1446.2010.00852.x

Table 1.

Basic Principles of a PHR

The following PHR principles guided the development and utilization of the MHC:

  1. Each person is ultimately responsible for making decision about his/her health.

  2. Information in the PHR should be understandable to the individual.

  3. Information in PHR should be accurate, reliable and complete.

  4. The PHR may be separate from and does not normally replace the legal medical record of any provider.

  5. Privacy protection of PHR data should follow the data.