Patient Perceptions of a Personal Health Record: A Test of the Diffusion of Innovation Model

Srinivas Emani   ^{1 *} , PhD, MA ;   Cyrus K Yamin   ^{2 *} , MD ;   Ellen Peters   ^{3 *} , PhD ;   Andrew S Karson   ^{4 *} , MD, MPH ;   Stuart R Lipsitz   ^{1 *} , ScD ;   Jonathan S Wald   ^{5 *} , MD, MPH ;   Deborah H Williams   ^{1 *} , MHA ;   David W Bates   ^{1, 6 *} , MD, MSc

¹ Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

² Department of Emergency Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States

³ Department of Psychology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States

⁴ Clinical Decision Support Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

⁵ RTI International, Waltham, MA, United States, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

⁶ Department of Healthcare Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States

*all authors contributed equally