Next time you reach for your prescription pad, you may want to grab your iPhone instead.

Research shows that patients want to be more involved in their own care and an online patient portal can help them do that.

Personal health records, once seen as a way for patients to have control of their medical information, are not nearly as prevalent as they once were. That’s due in large part to the wide spread push for electronic medical records (EMR) adoption, not to mention the fact that patients were responsible for manually updating the personal health record data. However, there are still a few around.