PHR-Related Events in May

Posted May 1, 2008 by Lygeia Ricciard

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 in the near future that highlight PHRs specifically.

May 6, 2008 – World Congress Leadership Summit on Consumer Connectivity & Web Empowerment
As part of this one-day leadership conference, Lygeia Ricciardi (Project HealthDesign’s blogger) and Vince Kuraitis (Better Health Technologies and the e-CareManagement blog) are on a panel on “Determining the Value and Future Direction of Employer Initiatives Seeking to Establish Employee PHRs” addressing the emerging personal health information network, privacy concerns, and the implications for employer-sponsored PHRs. (Boston, MA)

May 8, 2008 – National Web Conference on Practical Solutions for Engaging Consumers in the Design and Use of PHRs: Beyond User Centered Design
In this third of a three-part web series sponsored by the AHRQ National Resource Center for Health IT, Patty Brennan (Project HealthDesign’s National Program Director) and Kathy Hajopoulos, (University of California, San Francisco Medical Center), will characterize the people, living at home, who use familiar (e.g. paper calendars) and electronic tools to accomplish health management tasks. They will then illustrate user-centered design activities employed by Project HealthDesign, including one team's approach to give women with cancer the tools to create a life-sustaining balance of family life and medical treatment. To register, click on "Enroll". (Online, 1:30 to 3:00 PM Eastern)

May 15, 2008 – TIGER Consumer Empowerment/PHR Collaborative Meeting
The Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform (TIGER) Initiative is focused on helping the nursing profession to adopt informatics tools, principles, theories and practices that make healthcare safer and more effective, efficient, patient-centered and equitable for all stakeholders. Register for their web-based meeting here.

May 15, 2008 -- 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)

May 17-21, 2008 – TEPR (Towards the Electronic Patient Record)
The TEPR 2008 Annual Conference program, sponsored by the Medical Records Institute, addresses several major interests including consumer/patient IT systems. http://www.medrecinst.com/tepr/index2.html (Fort Lauderdale, FL)

May 21, 2008 – Moving Toward an E-Enabled Healthcare Environment: Telehealth, EMR, PHR, eRX, and Related Technology Tools from 30,000 Feet - Update and Status
This is an educational panel organized by the 2008 Capitol Hill Steering Committee on Telehealth and Healthare Informatics, which has convened more than 100 widely attended, publicly available educational lunch sessions and technology demonstrations on Capitol Hill. Events are free of charge but require registration with the organizer, Neal Neuberger at nealn@hlthtech.com. (Washington, DC)

May 29 through 31 – AMIA Spring Congress
This meeting of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) is designed to showcase the best of biomedical and health research and education by focusing on four topical tracks, one of which is PHRs. Ken Goodman (Project HealthDesign’s ethics advisor) will discuss “Key Ethical and Social Issues in a Future of Widespread PHR Adoption.” (Phoenix, AZ)