Willis, Matthew2020-06-062020-06-06201943739http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10606-019-09346-zhttps://dl.eusset.eu/handle/20.500.12015/3755Personal health information management (PHIM) is a broad endeavor that requires the patient to navigate many different types of information. Including patients performing a variety of tasks and roles to make information useful. I ask the question: what practices constitute a patient’s personal health information management socio-technical assemblage? By doing this I am interested in understanding how PHIM is an assemblage of different actors, tools, technologies, information, and materialities that form a heterogeneous network to motivate the patient’s health maintenance and wellbeing. I describe information practices, planning and sense making practices that patients engage to begin to define this assemblage, and the social actors and materialities that manifest and stabilize. Then, I discuss three key commitments learned from this approach, namely: the personal aspect of PHIM, the role of physical and digital materials on PHIM, and the role of information practice materialities.MaterialitiesMy HealtheVetPatient centered-carePersonal health information managementPersonal health recordQualitative researchSocio-technical assemblageText/Journal Article10.1007/s10606-019-09346-z1573-7551