Massachusetts General Hospital

Mixed Results for Personal Health Record System

16/Sep/2008

An online personal health record system that allowed people with diabetes to check their lab results and get guidance about medication proved to be of only limited use in improving their health outcomes, researchers found.

The patients who used the system did not do a better job of getting their diabetes under control after one year compared to a second group who used a simpler online health program. However, the news wasn’t all bad, said Richard Grant, M.D., assistant professor at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

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