Personal Health Records are a reality because of the growth and development of Information and Communication Technology in the past few years.

For the first time, individuals have the power to access, own, organize and maintain in an up-to-date condition all their medical information - that has been in the past scattered in various places - including the records of hospitals, clinics and laboratories they have visited, in degenerating pieces of paper, in their 'heads' as well as in the 'heads' of their healthcare providers.

Watch My Health originated in an attempt to overcome the difficulties doctors face in obtaining critical information about the patient's background medical condition in the event of unforeseen and abrupt needs for the same that might arise anywhere, anytime. Often medical care is less than optimal because the doctor who sees an individual for the first time may not be fully informed of his existing health conditions and risk factors, current medications, allergies, sensitivities and so on.

WMH is now able to provide this information to any doctor through a continuously updated PHR readily accessed online.

We hope that, in future, the Personal Health Record will become an essential document for every citizen - a 'passport' to optimal and economical healthcare. All healthcare providers would be relying on the PHR as the patient's primary health database and the information generated in hospitals and in specialty clinics would be channeled and assimilated into the PHRs and would thus be accessible to the authorized personnel who need them.

More than a source of information, we anticipate that PHRs would, in future, become the hub around which the entire healthcare system will be organized - the inbuilt programmes within the PHR system guiding and establishing standards and uniformity of preventive and chronic healthcare.