An Overall Health and Well-Being Data Model for Employer-Sponsored Personal Health Records

With the need for employee-directed health management in organisations, employers have started to utilise personal health records' (PHRs) potential to shift health management responsibility to employees. Whilst the overall well-being of employees in organisations has become the trend in wellness activities at work, existing literature has paid less attention to identifying proper data organisation and management in employer-sponsored personal health records (ESPHRs) for overall health and well-being management of employees. We conducted three focus group discussions with 26 participants comprised of employees and employers to identify information concerns in occupational health and well-being management. We found that health and well-being data can be organised into six main domains when considering the overall health and wellbeing of employees. Consequently, a survey was conducted among 360 respondents to identify employees' and employers' perception of the usefulness of having overall health and well-being information in ESPHRs. We found that both parties accept the importance of all health and well-being information domains in ESPHRs. However, employees believe there is more usefulness in having physical health and healthy behaviour information in ESPHRs, while employers see the importance of work environment, emotional health, basic access and life evaluation information as more useful to have in ESPHRs. Information concerns identified through a thematic analysis were then used to develop an overall health and well-being data model for ESPHRs. These findings suggest that a new data organisation in ESPHRs when profiling employee health and well-being data has a high chance of achieving effective ESPHR system use in organisations.