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iBusiness, 2011, 3, 178-183 doi:10.4236/ib.2011.32024 Published Online June 2011 (/journal/ib) Development of Embedded Personal Health Care Record System Ruba Alawneh, Aism El Sheikh, Raid Kanaan Faculty of Information System, University of Banking and Financial Sciences, Amman, Jordan. Email: ruba9_2@ Receive March 9th, 2010; revised May 5th, 2011; accepted May 7th, 2011. ABSTRACT Various systems, methods and techniques are in use by patients and medical centers to provide the necessary informa- tion and to serve medical profession including hospital information systems. One of the most important services is Per- sonal Health care Record (PHR) portability and management. This problem has become out of history of paper records kept separately by physicians, clinics, hospitals, pharmacies, insurance companies and patients themselves. Many ap- proaches were implemented to improve and manage the PHR including portability solution . These approaches were based on implementing portable memory device such as flash memory and Smart Cards. In this work an embedded PHR system was developed. The developed system allows operating and managing PHR by the help of standalone system. Keywords : Personal Health Care Record (PHR), Microcontroller Unit, Electronic Health Record (EHR), Health Care Information System , Patient System Operation, Clinical System Operation, Pharmacy System Operation, Pharmacy Web Service 1. Introduction record which is held separately by physicians, clinics, hospitals, pharmacies, insurance companies and patients Various types of technologies are in use by health care themselves. industry plays a vital role in improving patient-physician