PHR-Related Events in March

Posted March 3, 2008 by Lygeia Ricciardi

While there are many conferences and events that cover some aspect of the overlap between health and information technology, I wanted to draw your attention to a few coming up this month that highlight PHRs specifically:

March 3-4, 2008 -- Health2.0 Spring Fling “Connecting Consumers & Providers”
A spinoff of the broader Health 2.0 Conference in the fall, this meeting is focusing on consumers & providers using Health 2.0 tools and technologies.
(San Diego, CA)

March 5, 2008 -- National Web Conference on Personal Health Records: An Overview
This is the 1st in a 3-part Series of web conferences on Personal Health Records sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. (Online)

March 18, 2008, 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. -- HHS Public Consumer Empowerment Workgroup Meeting This is a meeting of one of the workgroups of the American Health Information Community (the Community), run out of the Department of Health. It is made open to the public via webcast—you can ask questions at the end. (Online)

March 28-30, 2008 -- Patient-Centered Computing and eHealth: Transforming Healthcare Quality
Project HealthDesign's National Program Director, Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, will be a keynote speaker at a CME course presented under the auspices of Harvard Medical School's Division of Continuing Education. (Boston, MA)

Comments

[John Norris]

Great List... you might include:

HHS Public Consumer Empowerment Workgroup Meeting:

Tuesday, March 18, 2008, 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Upcoming: Panel on Social Marketing

Info and Archives available: http://www.hhs.gov/healthit/ahic/consumer/ce_archive.html

[Lygeia Ricciardi]

Thanks John -- I added the AHIC meeting, but didn't see anything on the social marketing event. When and where is that?

[John Norris]

Just got word that the social marketing piece will be during that meeting.

(Tuesday, March 18, 2008, 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.)