Although the National Health Council recommends you to keep a personal health record and take it with you to your doctor,it�s one thing to document your medical information�

It�s another to know when and how to use it. Open MedicDrive,a collaborative open architecture based application has launched the educational Wiki for advancing and educating users about the role of Healthcare Information Technology in Personal Health Record Management.

The short term intent of open medicdrive is to educate and make it possible for anybody with a computer, USB memory stick,Internet access and a little bit of initiative to create a portable personal health record for themselves or a loved one.

As Innovations in communications and information technologies like the telephone, the computer, and the Internet have significantly changed interactions between physicians and patients and have raised the level of health care delivery.

Yet,the integration of Personal health records in the health care industry has not been to its fullest potential.