Design Considerations for the Use of Patient-Generated Health Data in the Electronic Medical Records

Patient-generated health data (PGHD) is of growing interest to physicians, particularly if they are integrated in the electronic medical record (EMR). Concerns about how to manage vast amounts of PGHD and potential liability issues have limited their use. Based on interviews with specialists, we present types of PGHD, workflow processes and needs. We then discuss consideration for how to manage PGHD with approaches for analyses to detect abnormal results, and present implications for alert systems and visualization requirements in multi-patient views.