Table 2 .

Criteria for Evaluation of Functionality

Function	Requirements
Providing Web-based access to personal medical information	▪ Secure password-protected patient access ▪ Capacity to provide authorized provider access ▪ Capacity to provide directed emergency access
Providing an organized summary of personal medical information for presentation to health care providers	▪ Accurate entry of past and current medical conditions, including information about diagnosis and treatment ▪ Accurate entry of past and current medications, including information about indication, dose, frequency, and duration ▪ Verification of laboratory test results ▪ Verification of diagnostic study results ▪ Verification of immunizations, including information about dates and sequences
Serving as a portal to patient-specific consumer-level health care information	▪ Accurate entry of medical conditions ▪ Accurate entry of medications ▪ Capacity to provide links to consumer health care information
Providing interpretive information about laboratory test and diagnostic study results	▪ Accurate entry of medical conditions ▪ Accurate entry of medications ▪ Verification of laboratory test results ▪ Verification of diagnostic study results ▪ Capacity to interpret laboratory test and diagnostic study results
Serving as a database of information for patient-specific self-monitoring and disease management	▪ Accurate entry of medical conditions ▪ Accurate entry of medications ▪ Verification of monitoring study results ▪ Capacity to interpret monitoring study results ▪ Capacity to provide evaluation and treatment recommendations ▪ Capacity to provide secure communication between patients and providers