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PHIL, she can print her record out and bring
it along to her appointments.
Webber-Schuss’ PHIL account includes her
whole family, so she has also built electronic
health records for her daughter (who has her
same doctor) and for her husband (who has a
different doctor, but one who also uses PHIL).
But suppose for a moment that Webber-
Schuss had been stranded, with no connections
at all to any doctor who uses PHIL.
Then she could still have signed up, made
personal records for herself and her family,
printed them out, and showed them to her
PHIL-less doctors.
But PHIL’s other advantages — such as e-mail
access, and lab and radiology reports — would
have been unavailable to her.
Which is why, when she says she was an eager
early adopter of PHIL, she quickly adds, “And
so was my doctor, thank goodness.”
CHARLENE WEBBER-SCHuSS,
COMMuNITY HOSPITAL’S DIRECTOR OF
HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY,
uSES ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS
FOR HERSELF AND HER FAMILY.
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