Posted April 16, 2009 by Patricia Brennan, RN, PhD, FAAN
This is a very exciting time for Project HealthDesign.
If you are reading this, you probably know that we have just released a call for proposals for a second round of funding.
One of the most helpful
insights from our project to date is the importance patients place on
collecting and sharing data that aren’t typically part of their medical record,
but come from their everyday life – observations of daily living (ODLs). In projects selected from among the
applications that will be submitted to Project HealthDesign this June, grantees will test
what and how ODLs can be used by patients and clinicians together.
Since we know patients are
experts at their personal experience and clinicians are experts at clinical practice,
to make health care more efficient and effective, we need to integrate their
expertise so that providers can offer actionable advice when patients need it,
resulting in better outcomes – possibly at lower cost. Teams selected for the new round of funding will use personal health record (PHR) technologies to conduct small trials with patients and clinicians in real care
settings.
I would like to
invite you to follow and help shape our work by
applying to be a new grantee, being part of our dialogue and/or by passing along this information to your
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