Table 1. Data from all sites reviewed.

 

Site

 

URL

 

Privacy Policy

 

Medical Content

 

Coded Data Captured?

 

Personal Card

 

Access to Information

 

Wellness checkups

 

Print version

 

CyberTelemedical Office

 

www.telemedical.com/Spoon/record.html

 

HON, SSL, Digital Certificates

 

Guided

 

Yes

 

No

 

Web (user login only)

 

Yes

 

No

 

PersonalMD

 

www.personalmd.com/basicreg_ir.html

 

HON

 

Guided

 

No

 

Yes

 

Phone/Fax with ID

 

No

 

On card

 

AMA Personal Health History

 

www.ama-assn.org/insight/yourhlth/per_hlth/phhmain.htm

 

Information not saved

 

Guided - Gender specific

 

No

 

Yes

 

Paper only

 

No

 

Yes

 

Healtheon/WebMD

 

www.webmd.com

 

HON, TRUSTe

 

Partially guided

 

No

 

Yes

 

Web (user login or ID)

 

No

 

Yes

 

The Health Network

 

www.ahn.com/

 

Promises only

 

Free form

 

No

 

No

 

Web (user login or cookie)

 

No

 

No

 

MedicaLogic

 

aboutmyhealth.net/aboutmyhealth/tour/index.html

 

Internet-based Medical Record system. Currently in beta testing. Can view demo of system only on this site.

 

Dr. Koop

 

www.drkoop.com

 

Promised 19 Feb 1999 for 2cd quarter 1999. Not available as of 13 Aug 1999.

See www.po.com/pressrel/drkoop2.html for details

 

MedicAlert

 

www.medicalert.org/mem_logon.asp

 

Promised in future. Not available as of 13 Aug 1999.

 

PCASSO

 

medicine.ucsd.edu/pcasso/

 

Internet-based Medical Record system. Currently in use at UCSD. View HELP to see demo of system only on this site.

 

Vital Works

 

www.vitalworks.com/

 

For sale.

 

World Clinic

 

www.worldclinic.com/medinfo.htm

 

Promised, but nothing currently (13 Aug 1999) available on the site.

 

HealthCompass

 

www.health-compass.com/toc.htm

 

For sale. Can be embedded into any site, but a single patient has a single record stored on the health compass site regardless of site of data entry.

 

Elixis

 

www.elixis.com/home/sub_wc_chart.htm

 

Promised for 3rd quarter 1999. Not available as of 13 Aug 1999.

For an up to date on-line version of this table with links to all the sites see: http://www.informatics-review.com/records.html