Benefits, Barriers and Readiness to Adopt a Universal Serial Bus (USB) Personal Health Record among Older Adult Hispanic Americans

Authors

Kristen Painter, Brigham Young University
Dr. Barbara Heise, Brigham Young University

Keywords

universal serial bus, USB, adult Hispanic American, chronic disease

College

Nursing

Abstract

As the older adult population has aged, learning to manage their health and concurring chronic disease conditions has become a prevalent topic for health care providers. It has been shown that advances in information technology can improve healthcare outcomes (IOM, 2001; IOM, 2008). Recently, personal health records (PHRs) have emerged as an important information exchange technology to avoid injury and death by increasing access to patient health information by clinicians (AHIMA/AMIA Position Statement, 2007). Yet older adults with chronic illnesses who may gain the most from this technology are reluctant to use a PHR system.

Recommended Citation

Painter, Kristen and Heise, Dr. Barbara (2014) "Benefits, Barriers and Readiness to Adopt a Universal Serial Bus (USB) Personal Health Record among Older Adult Hispanic Americans," Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2014: Iss. 1, Article 1049.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2014/iss1/1049