UK Trade & Investment, One Memorial Drive, Cambrid
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Personal Health Records- Driving Patient Empowerment
Friday, December 15, 2006; 7:30am registration; 8-10am panel; 10-11am networking
UK Trade & Investment, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA
The Personal Health Record (PHR) is central to consumer centric healthcare. The promise that PHRs offer is to provide the information patients need to understand their health history and clinicians need to make effective treatment recommendations while fostering informed conversations between patients and clinicians. The opportunity is so compelling that we are seeing an explosion of PHRs becoming available to health consumers, whether they are from health content providers like webMD, health care providers such as hospitals or as a part of a consumer directed health plan from the health insurance community. The reality is that since health information comes from all of these sources including patients, their providers, and payers the development of effective PHRs will require close collaboration between health content, technology and health care delivery professionals.
Our panel of experts will look at how PHRs can enable a user-friendly experience in healthcare. Also they will explore the technology and infrastructure needed to capture accurate information, integrate it with medical records, and/or claims data, and make it easy to access and use. Join us as we explore issues that arise regarding how the data sources can be integrated (potentially through Regional Health Information Organizations - RHIOs), who controls the information in the PHR and how it all will be secured.
Participants:
- Dr. Jeremy Nobel, MD, Harvard School of Public Health (moderator)
- Stanley Chin, Director, Practice Development, Altarum Institute (IT Services Perspective)
- Dr. David Cochran, MD, Senior VP of Strategic Development at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care (Payor Perspective)
- Rose Higgins, President, iMetrikus, Inc. (IT Services Perspective)
- Delia Vetter, Director of Benefits, EMC Corporation (Employer Perspective)
- Jonathan Wald MD, MPH, Corporate Manager and Product Manager for the Patient Gateway âÃÂàPartners Enterprise Patient Portal (Provider Perspective)
Attendees are encouraged to bring their questions and experiences to our dialog as we explore these and other issues:
- Benefits of PHRs to consumers, employers, payors, providers
- Why PHRs are gaining momentum in the marketpace
- Barriers to adoption of PHRs
- Privacy requirements for PHRs
- Methods to integrate different data streams to create a more meaningful PHR
- New Business opportunities for technology companies by leveraging Consumer Directed Healthcare and PHRs trends.
Pre-registration for this event is closed.
Registration is still available at the door.
