Health information structures (PHR, EMR, EHR and others) integrate and converge must comply with the processing of internal, external, administrative, clinical and personal data. These frameworks can allow data providers and data management or patient-centric information to be segmented according to access needs and data owners.
As it comes to structuring the PHR/EHR information, you might consider to mention the source-oriented and problem-oriented approaches. See, for example, Salmon, P., Rappaport, A., Bainbridge, M., Hayes, G., & Williams, J. (1996). Taking the problem oriented medical record forward. Proceedings : A Conference of the American Medical Informatics Association / ... AMIA Annual Fall Symposium. AMIA Fall Symposium, 463–467
In most cases, and thanks to the increasing use of open standards (both in information exchange, and in data pasistence), globally systems for healthcare information management are converging on a similar model. You can see this model emerging through HL7 FHIR and SNOMED CT. These model the clinical aspects of the information (there are other standards too, but from a clinical perspective all the models are very similar - because people are the same globally, and have the same diseaes, are exposed to the same diagnistic tests and treaments, have allergies and also drugs are pretty much the same too across the planet - of course all these elements are subject to local codification - you will see some countries have more gender codes than others). Another point of view from the clinical poiint of view is the administrative ouur accountants' point of view. There you are more interestedin how many patients and their associated costs - but there is a large overlap (intesection) and the structured data and codification between the two. This is why you see some places use, for example, ICD-10 coding (the World Health Organisation's statistical codification scheme) being used for clinical coding in some part sof the world for some clincal sub-groups.
I think, by the way, that when the accountants' view is the smae as the clinician's view then there is a good corrependence between "health" and "value". But since accountants like to generalise and average, and since politics plays a role in the value of health in every country, I don't see that the two views will ever overlap 100%. But this is just my very subjective point of view - no science behind it :)
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