Recap of 2007 Event
On Dec. 5-7, 2007, Markle Foundation convened an executive symposium on personal health records and consumer information services in California on December 5-7, 2007. The event brought together 100 senior executives from commercial PHR companies, national health plans, large delivery systems, employers, consumer organizations, and federal and state officials to talk about how to increase the value and adoption of emerging consumer information platforms.
The meeting addressed three issues:
- What will it take to stimulate those who now hold consumer data (doctors, plans, hospitals, pharmacy networks, labs ...) to release it to new consumer information services?
- To what degree is the industry prepared to agree to common privacy practices and through what mechanisms?
- What payment or reimbursement models are most likely to stimulate PHR adoption by consumers and greater liquidity of information by providers and institutions?
This dynamic event included members of the Health 2.0 community, global internet companies, and representatives of the established health care industry. Informal summaries and comments are available at:
Recap of 2006 event
The second national Connecting Americans to Their Health Care conference took place in Washington, DC in December 2006. More than 700 consumer and patient advocates and leaders in health care, business, and government, took part in this free 3-day program focused on ways to enable PHRs to communicate across the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN). Results from our newest public opinion survey on American's attitudes towards gaining greater access to their own personal health information were also released.
Click here to access material and presentations given at the 2006 PHR Conference.
Recap of 2005 event
On October 11, 2005, more than 600 individuals, including consumer and patient advocates, leaders in health care, business, and government participated in the first conference ever to focus solely on the empowerment of patients and health care consumers through health information technology (IT). Conference participants discussed:
- Newly proposed consumer principles designed to put more power in the hands of Americans who wish to participate in their own health care through health IT.
- The role of personal health records and other emerging technologies, including nationwide electronic health information exchange.
- How health IT may help us share information quickly without compromising our privacy.
- Legislative and private sector proposals that would affect how individual Americans access personal health records and other emerging health information technologies.
Click here to access material and presentations given at the 2005 PHR Conference.
