Abstract: This invention relates to electronic medical records and in particular records that are owned, managed, and controlled by a patient or a person with appropriate authorization to act for the patient, and, in particular, to the establishment and management of a PHR (electronic personal health record) for efficient and effective presentation to a user. The invention also relates to creating structured medical information within the PHR and the differential presentation of that information such that immediate determinations of reliability can be made on the quality and accuracy of the medical information. Further, the invention relates to a PHR that is apportioned into active and inactive area such that only active portions are viewed by health-care providers who are granted routine access. This maximizes the information presented to the provider and minimizes the provider's need to review non-relevant and/or especially sensitive information.

Abstract: This invention relates to an Internet or other broadband computer-based networked system, operated by a service provider that enables members of the system provider network, which may be patients, family members, employees or others, to assemble, update, enhance, analyze, correct, broker, securely store and transmit, certify and otherwise manage the medical records and, under appropriate circumstances, the medical records of family, friends, clients or customers and integrates those medical records and their updating around the patient.

Abstract: This invention relates to an Internet or other broadband computer-based networked system, operated by a service provider that enables members of the system provider network, which may be patients, family members, employees or others, to assemble, update, enhance, analyze, correct, broker, securely store and transmit, certify and otherwise manage the medical records and, under appropriate circumstances, the medical records of family, friends, clients or customers and integrates those medical records and their updating around the patient.