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J Am Med Inform Assoc 13:121-126 doi:10.1197/jamia.M2025
  • The Practice of Informatics

Personal Health Records: Definitions, Benefits, and Strategies for Overcoming Barriers to Adoption

Table 2

Objective and Subjective PHR Data Types by Source

Data Type
Data Source Subjective Objective
Patient Manual entry or results of online data capture (e.g., symptoms scores, qualitative descriptions) Manual entry (e.g., blood pressure, weight)
Home instrumentation N/A Automated interfaces (e.g., blood pressure from interfaced home blood pressure monitor)
Clinicians Automated interface with medical records Automated interface with medical records
Claims databases N/A Automated interfaces

  • N/A = not applicable.

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