A PHE is a Personal Health Environment.
With a PGO, you can your own medical data Collect and view data from multiple healthcare providers in one place.

You can therefore link multiple patient portals to the PGO you use. You also have the direction regarding which data you want to collect and view in the PGO.

In a patient portal you can view the data your healthcare provider holds about you.

This way, in your hospital's portal, you see the data the hospital holds about you. And in your GP's portal, the data known to your GP.

The healthcare provider determines which data you can view in the portal.

In both a patient portal as in a PHE so you can view your medical records. But there is still a big difference between the two.

In a patient portal you can only view your medical data from the relevant healthcare organization.

Immediately PHE You can view all medical data from various healthcare organizations in one place with a single login.