Abstract: Embodiments may include patient-administered systems for managing personal healthcare information. A patient may be enabled to control the content of a patient-controlled database, and may control the access of others to the data contained therein. Optionally, some embodiments of the invention may include one or more of a means for authorized users of the system to communicate with each other, a patient-controlled database configurable to communicate data between itself and a remote third party data source, a personal log tool for manually or automatically inputting data, or a means for detecting problems with drug prescriptions and reporting the problems to the patient.