Participatory eHealth & Health data Research Group (PeHR)

Forskargruppen, Sigtuna Stiftelsen 2023
Our group supports the continuous transformation of healthcare in Sweden and internationally through participatory research onf eHealth and health data. We work at the intersection of health sciences, implementation science, pre-clinical research, health informatics, and action research. Our work includes evaluation of ethical, legal and social consequences of eHealth tools in collaboration with all stakeholders: patients, informal caregivers, healthcare professionals, researchers, healthcare organisations, industry, policymakers, and governmental authorities.
The perspectives of patients and informal caregivers is key to our research, so we support both patient-driven innovation and research as essential components to improve health and well-being.
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Publications
A growing concern: Online access to minors’ health records
2025
A proof-of-concept study for patient use of open notes with large language models
Part of JAMIA Open, 2025
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Part of BMC Medical Ethics, 2025
Part of The Gerontologist, 2025
- DOI for An Intersectional Perspective on Digital Health: Longitudinal Narratives and Observations With Older and Middle-Aged Women Experiencing Homelessness
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2025
Part of JMIR Aging, 2025
Guidelines for Patient-Centered Documentation in the Era of Open Notes: Qualitative Study
Part of JMIR Medical Education, 2025
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Impact of Patient Online Record Access on Documentation: Scoping Review
Part of Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2025
Noble Humbug?: Hard and soft laws on clinical placebo use
Part of Frontiers in Psychology, 2025
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Part of JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting, 2025
- DOI for Perspectives on Swedish Regulations for Online Record Access Among Adolescents With Serious Health Issues and Their Parents: Mixed Methods Study
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Part of JMIR Research Protocols, 2025
- DOI for Research Participants’ Engagement and Retention in Digital Health Interventions Research: Protocol for Mixed Methods Systematic Review
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Part of International Review of Sociology, p. 72-88, 2025
- DOI for Seeking public assistance to escape violence: a study on relocation co-created with women with lived experience of homelessness
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A Nordic Perspective on Patient Online Record Access and the European Health Data Space
Part of Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2024
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A Patient-Driven Mobile Health Innovation in Cystic Fibrosis Care: Comparative Cross-Case Study
Part of Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2024
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A perspective-taking university course for cancer survivors, loved ones and healthcare professionals
Part of Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 2024
Adolescents' and Young Adults' Experiences of Offense from Reading Their Health Records Online
Part of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, p. 1422-1423, 2024
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Part of BMJ Paediatrics Open, 2024
- DOI for Adolescents' reasons for accessing their health records online, perceived usefulness and experienced provider encouragement: a national survey in Sweden
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Affordance trajectories and the usefulness of online records access among older adults in Sweden
Part of Digital Health, 2024
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Part of Health Expectations, 2024
Part of Health Expectations, 2024
- DOI for Balancing feeling 'prepared' without feeling 'devoured': A qualitative study of self-care from the perspective of self-empowered persons living with Parkinson's disease in Sweden
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Benchmarking usability of patient portals in Estonia, Finland, Norway, and Sweden
Part of International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2024
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Part of Research Involvement and Engagement, 2024
Conferences led by patients facilitate democratic decision making in healthcare
Part of The BMJ, 2024
Conferences led by patients facilitate democratic decision making in healthcare
Part of BMJ. British Medical Journal, 2024
Digital health interventions for schizophrenia: Setting standards for mental health
Part of Schizophrenia Research, p. 392-395, 2024
Part of JMIR Mental Health, 2024
- DOI for Digital Mental Health for Schizophrenia and Other Severe Mental Illnesses: An International Consensus on Current Challenges and Potential Solutions
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Part of Journal of Medical Ethics, 2024
Part of BMJ Open, 2024
- DOI for Experiences and opinions of general practitioners with patient online record access: an online survey in England
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Part of BMC Psychiatry, 2024
- DOI for Experiences from patients in mental healthcare accessing their electronic health records: results from a cross-national survey in Estonia, Finland, Norway, and Sweden
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Part of Qualitative Report, 2024
- DOI for Exploring the Experience of Healthcare-Related Epistemic Injustice among People with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
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2024
Generative artificial intelligence in mental health care: potential benefits and current challenges
Part of World Psychiatry, p. 1-2, 2024
Generative artificial intelligence in primary care: an online survey of UK general practitioners
Part of BMJ Health & Care Informatics, 2024
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Part of Digital Health, 2024
- DOI for Generative artificial intelligence writing open notes: A mixed methods assessment of the functionality of GPT 3.5 and GPT 4.0
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Generative Language Models and Open Notes: Exploring the Promise and Limitations
Part of JMIR Medical Education, 2024
Part of NordiCHI '24, 2024
- DOI for Impact of healthcare education on preferences for electronic health records: Results from national survey of patient users in Sweden
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2024
Individual Patient Factors Associated with the Use of Physical or Digital Primary Care in Sweden
Part of Telemedicine journal and e-health, p. 1289-1296, 2024
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Part of Critical Social Policy, p. 535-547, 2024
- DOI for Inheriting discriminatory socio-political landscapes as ‘undeserving’ disabled people: The legacy of common health problems and the future for long COVID
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Lay Perspectives on Empathy in Patient-Physician Communication: An Online Experimental Study
Part of Health Communication, p. 1246-1255, 2024
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Part of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, p. 114-118, 2024
Part of International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2024
- DOI for Minors' and guardian access to and use of a national patient portal: A retrospective comparative case study of Sweden and Finland
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On power and truth: The case of myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome.
Part of The Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, p. 7-18, 2024
Part of Nervenheilkunde, p. 714-719, 2024
Open AI meets open notes: surveillance capitalism, patient privacy and online record access
Part of Journal of Medical Ethics, p. 84-89, 2024
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Part of Digital Health, 2024
- DOI for Open notes in psychotherapy: An exploratory mixed methods survey of psychotherapy students in Switzerland
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PARKIN is not required to sustain OXPHOS function in adult mammalian tissues
Part of npj Parkinson's Disease, 2024
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Part of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, p. 1477-1481, 2024
2024
Patients' Experiences of Demanded Access to Online Health Records
Part of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, p. 1424-1425, 2024
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