The Record wherein all necessary health information about a patient is maintained by the patient himself is known as Personal Health Record (PHR). The web based personal health records are the accurate summary of an individual’s medical history, also accessible online, being preserved by the patient.

A typical grouping of information about an individual is stored in a PHR. It is maintained and managed by patients in electronic format in a private and secure manner. Data contained in PHR are considered confidential and accessible to the patients as well as his doctors at any time.