I’m Jean and welcome to my blog about – Personal Health Records. Why they’re important and useful. What you and I can do to keep our records private. Personal health record software and tools. Medical record privacy issues. How I work to manage my personal health record. Health record privacy news.

Privacy, whether it concerns my Social Security Number, my bank account, my personal affairs, what I spend my money on – what I like to do for fun – is important to me. It’s MY information and I believe I should be the one to dole it out to others as I – and only I – see fit.

This belief that my privacy is sacrosanct flows to my health record. In fact, my health or medical record is at the top of my list of personal information I feel I should control.

That’s what this blog is about and it will evolve with your contribution. In fact, I hope to begin a dialog with readers. I figure we can help each other on this journey, as we swap links, ideas, dispense news and talk about the issues.

 A little more about me….I’m married with one child, now 10, a little girl we adopted from Russia two years ago this coming Christmas. Becoming a parent was and continues to be a wonderful experience, yet it required that my husband and I reveal some information to the U.S. and Russian governments – both medical and financial – that we still feel were unnecessary (such as any fertility treatments we may or may not have undergone).

I’m also the daughter of two elderly parents who have health issues. I don’t want to go into too much detail here – I want to protect their privacy as much as possible. But I can say one of them is in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease and the other recently suffered a minor stroke – with minuscule cognitive impairment, thankfully.

They’re still living at home and taking care of one another. Yet their health WILL worsen and someday it will be up to my sister and me to manage their care and all that entails – including navigating their medical records.

This blog is sponsored by MyHealthMyWorld.com, an on-line health community and supplements supplier, which is taking an active role in providing personally controlled health records as part of customer care.

My background is in journalism and marketing, primarily in health related issues. I look forward to hearing from you. You can get in touch with me by posting comments or e-mailing me at jean@myhealthmyworld.com or view my online bio.