Regarding people, MyPHRMachines represents a technological innovation that may disrupt current medical practice and patient behavior. As such, we need to investigate itsacceptance and possible adoption by different types of users,
such as patients, physicians, or administrative personnel.
Eventually, regarding business models, research is required to understand how to make our solution economically profitable in the health care ecosystem. While, in fact, adopting our solution may reduce the cost of data exchange and exam retake, the costs related to the implementation and maintenance of patient-owned records has to be taken into account. Moreover, we argue that MyPHRMachines can become a success only by exploiting its complementarity to existing
PHR and EMR systems. At least in the initial diffusion period, the use of the system should be suggested to citizens for
whom the requirements addressed in Section II are particularly critical, such as business travelers or citizens in need of
specific advanced analysis that could reveal privacy sensitive information.