PHR Related Events in July

Posted July 1, 2009 by Lygeia Ricciardi 

July 15-16, 2009 – Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative Stakeholders Working Group

This year’s theme is: Public and Private Initiatives: Advancing the Patient-Centered Medical Home. Topics that will be discussed include: public federal initiatives vis-à-vis the patient-centered medical home, an overview of the extensive health care reform activity in Congress and the Obama administration, and how to engage the consumer in the PCMH model.  Speakers will also address the business benefits associated with the adoption of PCMH for small to medium-sized practices. (Washington, DC)

July 22-25, 2009 – 19th Annual Summer Institute in Nursing Informatics

Hear from leaders in health care information technology, learn about the latest advances in research and practice, and explore the cutting edge products and services. This year’s theme, Informatics at the Point of Care: A Barrier or a Bridge? will focus on both the positive and the negative impacts of informatics on patients, nurses, and care processes. Learn how to optimize the benefits of informatics for your patients, your practice, and your organization. (Baltimore, MD)

July 27-28, 2009 – World Health Care Congress Leadership Summit on Wireless Health

This two-day Summit convenes policy-makers, payers, providers and medical group practices from across the nation to discuss business and clinical opportunities for integrating mHealth, Remote Monitoring and Telehealth solutions into existing care systems. Real-life case studies and the results to-date from pilots at several leading provider organizations will be shared. (Boston, MA)

July 31-August 2, 2009 – FOSS in Health Care Unconference

This is a conference about Free and Open Source Software in healthcare. All of the top projects will be showing off their newest Open Source systems. So far we have confirmations from WorldVistA (EHR), Misys (Interoperability), OpenMRS (EHR), ClearHealth (EHR), OpenClinica (Clinical Research), Mirth - WebReach (HL7 router!), OpenVistA -Medsphere (EHR) and Sun Microsystems. Come learn about how the Open Source revoltion is impacting Health IT by providing high quality tools that work out-of-the-box to solve problems (Houston, TX).

Comments

[Kimberly Stanley, AIA]

This is a great initiative.
How can Architects/Designers who focus on healthcare design stay abreast of the work of Project Health Design? Is there an opportunity to get involved?

[Lygeia Ricciardi]

Kimberly --

Thanks for your comment. As far as staying abreast of what's going on, I'd suggest signing up for this blog's feed http://feeds.feedburner.com/ProjectHealthDesignBlog and to Project HealthDesign's updates & alerts http://www.projecthealthdesign.org/signup

I'll also pass on your interest in getting more involved to the rest of the team here and see if they have some specific suggestions. Thanks again -- the more minds engaged in addressing some of healthcare's challenges, the better!

- Lygeia